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PREM19/1427
Civil Service (Long term management and manpower policy) (Part 17)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 303
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85 Feb 15 Fr Major Civil Service: Attorney General Legal Secretary letter to Cabinet Office ("The Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants") [draft Guidance Note: legal advice on improper disclosure] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 12 Fr Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Promotion Blockages") [remedial measures: details of proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fr Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants in Relation to Ministers") [draft guidance; draft Written Question & Answer; morale in the civil service] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 7 We Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Government Emergency Communications System") [transfer of responsibility from DTI to Home Office] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 12 Tu Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants") [MT queries her position in relation to proposed Guidance Note in her capacity as Minister for the Civil Service] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tu Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (duties & responsibilities of civil servants in relation to Ministers) [request for advice on handling of reply to letter from Austin Mitchell MP, querying 'confusing' Cabinet Office guidance; No.10 of the view that query was politically motivated and advise reply by Lord Gowrie] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 19 We Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Government and lobbying) [request from Lynda Chalker for advice regarding invitation from Business Research International to participate in seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 14 Th Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Job Centre Manager of the Year Award) [MT agrees no significant risk of public criticism and approves the scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fr Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Morale in the Civil Service) [MT sceptical about evidence presented of a widespread and unprecedentedly low morale; regards concerns about Government intentions to privatise certain functions as "nub of the matter"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 3 We Major Civil Service: HM Customs & Excise letter to Barney Hayhoe ("Threatened "Work to Rule" - Clearance of Passengers/Accompanied Cars") [situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Civil Service: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower 1 April 1986 to 1 April 1988") [figures; draft PQ answer] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 12 Mo Minor Civil Service: Ian Stewart letter to Heseltine ("Multi-Departmental Review of Budgeting") [progress] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Howe ("Civil Service Order in Council") [legal advice on compliance; draft 1985 Order] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 14 Th Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Leon Brittan ("Civil Service College: Next Steps on Repayment") [programme to move bulk of College developmental training to full repayment by Departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fr Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Lord Hailsham (Top Management Programme) [details of new senior staff course] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 28 Mo Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Senior Management Development Programme") [progress report; performance targets] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Special Early Retirement") [report on outcomes of the scheme, and proposals for 1985] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 20 We Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (E(A)(85)15: commercial management) [thoughts on the consultative document] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Ethnic Monitoring in Government Departments") [draft PQ reply on report covering action to date and proposed follow-up] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 23 Tu Major Civil Service: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service") [announcement in Parliament following resolution of Keith Joseph dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]