Archive

1982 Nov 19 - 1984 Jan 17
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1177
Civil service (Pay and pensions; report of Megaw Committee on pay and conditions; pay negotiations) (Part 13)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 239
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83 Mar 31 Th Major Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (1983 pay negotiations for the non-industrial civil service) ["today an agreement has been reached"; press notice] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 18 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Early retirement and merit pay in the civil service"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Megaw: new pay arrangements for the non-industrial civil service") [MT concerns about data collection proposal for 1984 pay negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 27 We Major Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Megaw: new pay arrangements for the non-industrial civil service"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 28 Th Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Megaw: new pay arrangements for the non-industrial civil service") ["we need to decide whether we could in fact do nothing about data collection for the 1984 negotiations without being accused of going back on our commitment to negotiate on the basis of Megaw"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 1 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 note for the file ("Megaw: new pay arrangements for the non-industrial civil service") [draft statement for Council of Civil Service Unions] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 1 Mo Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Megaw") [draft statement to unions on data collection for 1984 pay negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Megaw") [draft statement to trade unions on data collection for the 1984 pay negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 2 Fr Major Civil service: Treasury briefing for MT ("Megaw") [note from Chairman of the Official Committee on Megaw: "sets out the present position and the main options"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 2 Fr Major Civil service: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Scholar ("Pay Arrangements for the Civil Service") ["a Megaw-based system for pay negotiations... and if not,.. an honourable way out of... [Government] commitment to have one"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 2 Fr Major Civil service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Megaw: meeting on 5 September") [background; main issues; next steps; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 5 Mo Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Making the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme Contributory") [correspondence relating to Lawson paper for Cabinet on public sector pensions policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 5 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Heseltine, Fowler, Tebbit, Gowrie) ["Megaw": pay negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 19 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Scholar ("Pay Arrangements for Non-Industrial Civil Servants") ["to bring you up to date on... developments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Civil Service "Single Outside Analogue" Grades") ["We cannot [yet] decide on our general policy for the future... the right course would be to continue in general with the present arrangements for a further year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 16 Mo Major Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay Negotiations 1984") [proposals for handling; timescale] [declassified Jan 2014]