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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1190
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 26)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 281
Themes: Public spending & borrowing

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Date Value Title
84 Jan 24 Tu Major Public spending: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to Peter Rees ("FCO Expenditure Problems") [how to make progress on outstanding issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 25 We Major Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [problems of social and economic deprivation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Territorial Programmes") [over-provision in the block budgets for Scotland and Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe ("FCO Expenditure Problems") ["the overriding consideration must be the Government's capacity to swallow" additional spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Lord Cockfield ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Part 1, Table 1.13") [public sector capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 31 Tu Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Cabinet: 9 February") [to discuss economic position, capital and current expenditure, public expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 31 Tu Major Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (draft Cabinet paper) [balance between capital and current expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 31 Tu Major Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Territorial Programmes") [problems in the assessment of needs in Scotland and Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 1 We Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [review appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 1 We Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [debate to happen first] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 2 Th Major Public spending: Robin Ibbs minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [need for proper scrutiny] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 2 Th Major Public spending: Treasury minute ("Ratios of Expenditure to GDP") [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Nigel Lawson (capital and public expenditure) [need for "cost-effective modernisation, maintenance and replacement of the public services capital stock"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 7 Tu Major Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (capital stock) [how to "avoid storing up trouble for ourselves"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Robin Ibbs ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [wants a policy and programme review, not an "efficiency" exercise] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Current and Capital Expenditure C(84) 7") [sales of assets, defence equipment, nationalised industries] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in Longer Term (C(84) 6)") [difficult for ministers to "discuss hypothetical figures or measures" without "being misrepresented"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Cabinet: Budget Background") ["dangerous to assume that you can judge a suitable overall level of public capital expenditure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 9 Th Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [timeframe for publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 14 Tu Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Briefing") [questions and answers] [declassified Jan 2014]