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1985 Oct 1 - 1985 Nov 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1454
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 33)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2015 Jul 16
Classification: Secret
Page count: 341
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85 Oct 1 Tue Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure") ["we have not succeeded in presenting the exercise positively"] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 1 Tue Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT (meeting with Lawson) [to discuss spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 1 Tue Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Robert Armstrong ("Star Chamber") [proposed members] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 1 Tue Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Charles Powell ("Fiscal Policies in Other Major Countries") [latest budget plans] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 1 Tue Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Whitelaw PS (Star Chamber) [speaking note] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 2 Wed Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985 (C(85) 23)") [planning totals, baseline figure] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 2 Wed Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [bids by departments to spend more] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 2 Wed Public spending: MacGregor PS note to David Norgrove (Public Expenditure Survey) [departmental briefs] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 2 Wed Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [figures on spending growth, taxation] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 2 Wed Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("3 October Cabinet") [speaking note on restraining spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 4 Fri Public spending: Treasury minute to David Norgrove ("Defence Expenditure as a Proportion of GDP") [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 5 Sat Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Younger PS ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [transferring money from the block grant] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 8 Tue Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 120: Position Paper") [position reached after bilaterals with ministers] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 9 Wed Public spending: Macgregor PS minute to Whitelaw PS (Star Chamber) [how to minimise press speculation] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 17 Thu Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgorve (economic assumptions) [unemployment, pay] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 18 Fri Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (Chequers seminar) [main results] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 24 Thu Public spending: George Younger minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [rating burden, penalties] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 24 Thu Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to Kenneth Baker ("MISC 120: DoE Programmes") [housing problems, water] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 25 Fri Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet Discussion of Public Expenditure") [defence spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
85 Oct 25 Fri Public spending: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Scotland: Local Authority Spending") [Younger "is trying his usual tactics"] [declassified Jul 2015]