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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1191
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 27)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 335
Themes: Public spending & borrowing

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Date Value Title
84 Jun 8 Fr Major Public spending: John Redwood minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure") [Policy Unit involvement in survey round] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 8 Fr Major Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Funding Meeting") [National Savings, gilt-edged funding, equity sale] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 14 Th Major Public spending: CBI minute to Andrew Turnbull (public service sector efficiency) [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 26 Tu Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1984 Public Expenditure Survey") ["this is going to be a difficult operation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 26 Tu Major Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Public Expenditure 1984-85") [local authority finance, electricity price] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 27 We Major Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [manpower targets, nationalised industries, contracting out, local authority spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 29 Fr Major Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1985-86") ["some of the bids may prove to be irresistible"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 4 We Major Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Press Handling After Cabinet Tomorrow") [public spending review] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 4 We Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (public expenditure survey) [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 4 We Major Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Economic Outlook and Public Expenditure (C(84) 16-18)") [papers for Cabinet meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure") [Lawson note on electricity prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 17 Tu Major Public spending: Treasury minute ("Construction Industry Capital Expenditure: PEWP Table 4.5") [correct figures] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 19 Th Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (capital expenditure on construction work) [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 19 Th Major Public spending: Walker PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure") [electricity prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fr Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Electricity Prices") [proposed separately identifiable surcharge after miners' strike ends, would be seen as "the cost of Scargill"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 22 Su Major Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Cash Limits 1983-84") [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mo Major Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Walker-Younger-Tebbit-Armstrong) [Lawson facing a difficult position on public spending; electricity prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 3 Fr Major Public spending: David Hobson minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Investment in the Regions") [how to get better value for money out of projects] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 22 We Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Peter Walker ("Energy Saving Campaign") [would agree to additional spending if the strike lasts through the Autumn] [declassified Jan 2014]