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PREM19/1441
Defence (Armed Forces' pay: pay review body report; Service doctors' and dentists' pay; local and overseas allowance; London weighting) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 270
Themes: Defence (general), Defence (Falklands), Pay, Public spending & borrowing

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Date Value Title
82 Mar 11 Th Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("London Weighting for the Armed Forces") [rejects Nott proposal for full implementation of Pay Review Body recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 15 Mo Major Defence: Nott minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Germany: Local Overseas Allowance") [political considerations of proposed reduction; MT opposed and asks for more information about exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 17 We Major Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Michael Scholar ("Armed Forces' pay") [handling of Ministerial Group report reviewing Government's commitment] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 19 Fr Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Nott ("Germany: Local Overseas Allowance") [calls for further discusssions over proposed reductions in a wider context; MT requests paper to clarify how the allowances work] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 22 Mo Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (London Weighting from 1 April 1918) [acceptance of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 22 Mo Major Defence: No.10 letter to Nott PS ("Germany: Local Overseas Allowance") [MT changes mind over request for an OD discussion, following clarification of how the allowances work] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 25 Th Major Defence: Alan Walters minute to Michael Scholar ("Armed Services' Pay") [proposed change of emphasis in Government evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Apr 6 Tu Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Armed Forces' Pay System") [proposed change of emphasis in Government evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Apr 8 Th Major Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("AFPRB Report") [Armed Forces Pay Review Body: advises delay in accepting Report's recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Apr 16 Fr Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The AFPRB Report") [Armed Forces Pay Review Body: timing of publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Hailsham, Nott, Younger, Biffen, Fowler, Tebbit, Jopling, Baroness Young, Keith Joseph, Barney Hayhoe) [pay issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 May 12 We Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay and charges for the Armed Forces) [acceptance of recommendations; thanks for service in post] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jun 11 Fr Major Defence: Leon Brittan letter to John Nott ("Defence Cash Limits") [disagrees with Nott's case for additional funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jun 29 Tu Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay of Service medical and dental officers) [acceptance of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Sep 22 We Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Armed Forces Pay") [disagreement over proposed significant change of emphasis in Government evidence to Pay Review Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Nov 4 Th Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nott ("London Weighting for the Armed Forces") [proposed amended draft of evidence to Armed Forces Review Body: "need to give... [AFPRB] a firm statement of the Government's views, thereby placing the [Department of Employment] indices in their proper perspective"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Nov 29 Mo Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nott ("London Weighting for the Armed Forces") ["sorry that you thought my suggested revised version of the evidence... gave the impression that we were leaning on the... [Pay Review Body]"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 15 We Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (Army Graves Registration Team: award for recognition of work in Falkland Islands) [agreement to recommendation of lump sum payment] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 7 Mo Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (London Weighting for members of the Armed Forces from 1 April 1982) [implementation of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 25 Fr Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Local Overseas Allowance") [Parliamentary announcement of new rates; MT questions effect of UK/W. Germany exchange rate on allowances] [declassified Dec 2014]