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1984 Nov 6 - 1984 Dec 14
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1194
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 30)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 376
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84 Nov 6 Tue Public Expenditure: Gow letter to MT (cuts to the housing programme) ["any reduction in housing spending below baseline will lead to avoidable higher expenditure and to avoidable hardship later on"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tue Public Expenditure: Gregson briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure: Housing Programme") [brief for meeting with Jenkin to discuss cuts to housing programme] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tue Public Expenditure: Redwood minute to MT ("Housing Expenditure") [argues for further reductions: "We should be robust about increasing council house sales and reducing the level of new build"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tue Public Expenditure: Trippier minute to MT ("Repackaging of DTI Assistance Schemes") [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 Wed Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Hailsham-Rees-Bailey-Gregson) ["Public Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 Wed Public Expenditure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984 (C(84) 32 and 33)") [MISC 106 public expenditure proposals: outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 Wed Public Expenditure: Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture and R&D Expenditure") [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 Wed Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin-Gow-Whitelaw-Gregson) ["Housing"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 Wed Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Public Expenditure: Gas and Electricity EFLs"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 Wed Public Expenditure: Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") ["some ammunition for Cabinet"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 8 Thu Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Rees-Younger-Edwards-Hurd-Armstrong) ["Territorial Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 8 Thu Public Expenditure: Nicholson minute to MT ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [charging for ADAS's services] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 11 Sun Public Expenditure: Draft Autumn Statement [annotated by MT] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 20 Tue Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Public Expenditure Survey: Consequences for FCO Programme"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 20 Tue Public Expenditure: Redwood minute to MT ("Public Spending") ["It is nonsense to say that all the easy things have now been done and there can be no further cuts"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 21 Wed Public Expenditure: Turnbull minute to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [brief for MT's meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on public expenditure in 1984 and 1985] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 22 Thu Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Public Expenditure Survey 1984 and 1985"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tue Public Expenditure: Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Planning Total for 1985-86") ["upward pressures on the [spending] figures are emerging"] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 6 Thu Public Expenditure: Turnbull minute to MT ("Debate on the Autumn Statement") [report on Chancellor of the Exchequer's performance in debate] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 7 Fri Public Expenditure: No.10 minute to MT ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [the Chief Secretary is "playing games...He is making a gesture of protest that other colleagues have not offered enough"] [declassified 2014]