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PREM19/1178
Civil service (Introduction of new technology; computer procurement; agreement with unions) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 312

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Date Value Title
82 Jun 22 Tu Major Civil service: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Camelot") [background note on conputer project setback in anticipation of Public Accounts Committee scrutiny] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 22 Th Major Civil service: Baroness Young minute to MT ("New Technology Agreement") [MT concern about proposed line to take with unions following members' subsequent rejection of Agreement concluded in March] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baroness Young) [new technology agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 26 Fr Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Nott ("Word Processors") ["in May 1981 we concluded an agreement with the Civil and Public Services Association... no evidence that our arrangements have caused any difficulties... I therefore propose... that the Agreement should be retained"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 1 Tu Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Baroness Young ("Telephone Extension Logging in the Civil Service") ["Treasury intend now to publish the results [of study]. I enclose a draft of the proposed press notice"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 letter to Central Office of Information ("New technology in the GIS") [proposal for Government Information Service] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 27 Fr Major Civil service: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Interdepartmental Electronic Mail System") [feasibility study] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 23 Tu Major Civil service: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("IDEM Study - Stage 1 Report and the Way Forward") ["disappointment that the Steering Group are minded to drop the SIDEM proposal... The major advantage of electronic mail... is speed... where speed is important, so is security"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Civil service: Treasury letter to Department of Employment ("IDEM Stage 2") [Inter-Departmental Electronic Mail: "interest... and... enthusiasm... has been most encouraging. We have therefore decided to proceed with Stage 2 of the study"] [declassified Jan 2014]