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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
Themes: Media, Executive

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Date Value Title
81 Mar 2 Mo Major Government machinery: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Use of Input-Output Tables") [advice on merits/demerits] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Apr 10 Fr Major Government machinery: Lord Soames minute to MT ("Review of the Government's Statistical Services") [findings; publication/White Paper; implementation of Rayner Efficiency reports recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Apr 13 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to Lord Soames PS (Review of the Government's Statistical Services) [publication; timing to coincide with Efficiency White Paper; civil service dispute] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 19 Mo Major Government machinery: MT minute to Ministers in Charge of Departments ("Survey Control") ["Statistical surveys cost money... We must ensure we get full value": proposals "to encourage better (and perhaps fewer) surveys"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 2 We Major Government machinery: Tebbit letter to Walker ("Proposed Merger of Family Expenditure Survey and National Food Survey") ["My main concern... is that confidence in the retail prices index must not be jeopardised... Accordingly I do not propose to authorise the merger"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jun 28 Mo Major Government machinery: MT letter to Director of Central Statistical Office (Review of Government Statistical Services) ["I am particularly delighted with the excellent progress on the implementation of Sir Derek Rayner's Review"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Government machinery: Peter Morrison minute to MT (Central Statistical Office) ["in trying to get changes made in a levy return form... we have lost a year"; MT shares concern about CSO performance] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 30 Th Major Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Government Statistical Services: Annual Report 1982-83") [overview; issues of note; advice against publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Government machinery: MT letter to Director of Central Statistical Office (Government Statistical Services: Annual Report 1982-83) [Written Statement to Parliament; "I should like to congratulate you and your staff on the splendid progress it records"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 27 Mo Major Government machinery: Ingham minute to Barclay (Integrity of Government Statistics: Publication) [MT rejects case for circulating advice to Ministers] [declassified Jan 2014]