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PREM19/1253
Government machinery (Organisation of Treasury and Cabinet Office; Management and Personnel Office (MPO); future of Efficiency Unit; abolition of Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS)) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 342
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83 Apr 22 Fr Major Government machinery: Baroness Young PS letter to No.10 ("MPO's Operating Plan for 1983-84") [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 29 Fr Major Government machinery: Baroness Young PS minute to Cabinet Office (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [press notice] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 7 Th Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Meeting with Sir Robin Ibbs: Efficiency) [appointment as MT adviser] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 17 We Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Future of the Rayner Unit") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 10 Fr Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Machinery of Government at the Centre") [CPRS; MPO; Rayner Unit] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Sep 29 We Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Ministry of Defence proposal to relocate to Old Admiralty Building) [rejected] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 26 Fr Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [announcement; press notice] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [draft press notice & notes for editors] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 8 We Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [press notice & notes for editors] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 30 Tu Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [press notice wording/future of the Unit] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 26 Fr Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [press notice; successor & future of the Unit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 5 Tu Major Government machinery: Chairman of IC letter to MT (Sir Robin Ibbs) [proposed trial period combining ICI employment with Efficiency Adviser role for MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major Government machinery: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee: Session 1983-84) [introduction to civil service: joint memo by Cabinet Office/Treasury] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 7 Th Major Government machinery: Lord Rayner letter to MT ("Efficiency Unit") [appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 15 Mo Major Government machinery: Lord Rayner letter to MT ("Future of the Rayner Unit") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Aug 25 We Major Government machinery: Lord Rayner letter to MT (resignation as Head of Rayner Unit) [resignation letter] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 13 We Major Government machinery: Lord Rayner letter to No.10 (resignation as Head of Rayner Unit) [timing of announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 10 Fr Major Government machinery: Lord Rayner minute to MT ("The Quality of Government") ["the drive should be led from your office... [via a] management unit acting with your authority... located near you"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Sep 22 We Major Government machinery: Lord Rayner to No.10 (resignation as Head of Rayner Unit) [draft letter to MT; announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Sep 8 We Major Government machinery: Management & Personnel Office minute to No.10 ("Rayner Unit etc: future arrangements") [remit of MPO] [declassified Jan 2014]