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1979 Oct 10 - 1984 Mar 6
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1248
Government machinery (Review of government statistical services, study led by Sir Derek Rayner; control of government statistical surveys)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 320
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79 Nov 2 Fr Major Government machinery: Channon letter to Lord Cockfield (Review of Statistical Services) ["I have... asked CSD officials to explore quickly... how best such a review can be conducted. Proposals on this will then be put to the Prime Minister"] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Nov 6 Tu Major Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to CSD ("Review of Statistical Services") [comments on draft outline note] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Nov 9 Fr Major Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute: Priestley to Allen ("Review of Statistical Services") [Derek Rayner, John Boreham record of conversation: oversight of the Review] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jan 14 Mo Major Government machinery: Channon minute to MT ("Government Statistical Services") ["I believe it is now time for a general review"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jan 18 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Rayner Project: Review of Government Statistical Services in the Departments of Trade and Industry) [copy of report & key sections summarised] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jan 18 Fr Major Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Government Statistical Services") ["welcome the idea of a systematic review and I would think it important that studies in individual departments should be supplemented by a central assessment of costs and priorities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jan 29 Tu Major Government machinery: Civil Service Department minute to No.10 ("Cabinet: 31 January") [reviews of government statistical activities and of procedure for handling leaks] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Aug 11 Mo Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Review of Government Statistical Services: Report on the Central Statistical Office") ["I should be grateful to know that you are content for the study team to consult the Cabinet Office Staff Side now... There is clearly a risk that the proposals will leak from the Staff Side, and that a campaign will be built up against the proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 22 Mo Major Government machinery: Rayner minute to Lord Soames ("Review of Statistical Services") [handling of Report] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 22 Mo Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Rayner Report on the Central Statistical Office") ["You will see that Sir John Boreham would like to continue certain work which the study team recommended should be discontinued"; CSO use of Prestel/costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 31 We Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Derek Rayner, Robert Armstrong, John Boreham) ["Rayner Report on the Central Statistical Office"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 7 We Major Government machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("Review of Government Statistical Services") [recommendations on handling & implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 7 We Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Review of Government Statistical Services) [Rayner advice on handling of the report & implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 8 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (Central Statistical Officer input-output tables) [MT "would like to have some idea of the extent to which this material is drawn on in preparation of papers which come to her"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to Efficiency Unit (Review of Government Statistical Services) [circulation; presentation to Parliament; implementation/guidelines; statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to Home Office (Review of Government Statistical Services) [potential savings; Central Statistical Office; management; implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (Review of Government Statistical Services) [role of the Director of the Central Statistical Office; implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to Department of Industry ("Prestel") [MT "thought that, as there was no strong... [Central Statistical Office] interest in staying in Prestel, the Cabinet Office should not bear the cost of the CSO service to Prestel... consistent with the Government's policies for promoting the development of information technology... the Department of Industry should bear the cost"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Government machinery: Director of Central Statistical Office minute to Departmental Heads of Statistics Divisions ("Sir Derek Rayner's Review of Government Statistical Services") [preparation of progress report on response to Rayner recommendations & follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Government machinery: Director of Central Statistical Office letter to Home Office ("Sir Derek Rayner's Review of Government Statistical Services") [response to, and implemetation of, Rayner Report recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]