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1985 Jun 3 - 1985 Nov 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1640
Social Services (Reform of social security: pensions, housing benefit and supplementary benefit; child support) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 347
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85 Nov 25 Mo Major Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Review") [details of savings measures agreed with MacGregor] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 25 We Major Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Joint DE/DHSS Study of Local Office Networks: Previous Studies into a "One-Office Network" for Unemployment and Other Social Security Benefits") [confirmation of MT's recollection of Rayner review; case for fresh review] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 27 We Major Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Review") [lines to take for media enquiries] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 17 Mo Major Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Uprating") [draft of Fowler statement to Parliament & summary of key points] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 3 Mo Major Social Services: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Presentation of Economic and Social Policy: Social Security Review") [findings & recommendations: general speaking note, circulated to Cabinet; summary of Green Paper; Fowler statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fr Major Social Services: Hurd letter to Tony Newton (Green Paper: enforcement of requirements under the new pension arrangements) [Hurd proposes "a new sort of relationship (between employers and pension providers)... subject to the oversight of your inspectors. I would hope that on those grounds the powers could be defended in the face of any objections there may be"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Social Services: Hurd minute to MT (MISC 111: Review of Social Security: State-Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)) [Hurd now in favour of retaining SERPS whilst limiting open-ended nature of commitment] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Social Services: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Income Related Benefits") ["The proposals which Norman Fowler is recommending... cost nearly £300 million more than those we agreed as the basis for the Green Paper... If we get it wrong now, we will have to cope with the consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Social Services: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Review of Social Security: The Next Steps") [thoughts on the proposed abolition/modification of the state-earnings-related pension scheme] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 15 Tu Major Social Services: Lord Hailsham letter to Tony Newton ("Green Paper Proposals for New Pension Arrangements") ["county courts are quite inappropriate for your proposals regarding coercive orders"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 30 We Major Social Services: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Social Security") ["Norman Fowler and I have reached an agreement on this programme. I summarise the position in this minute"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 30 Mo Major Social Services: MacGregor minute to MT ("Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Office Networks") [terms of reference; timetable; potential savings; grading & pay levels; consultation] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 27 Fr Major Social Services: MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Reviews and the Survey") ["I attach as agreed a background note on the position on social security expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 12 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Fowler") ["wants to make sure you understand the political difficulties of the proposals he is being pushed into making... You are not willing to see public expenditure figures threatened"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC 111 tomorrow") [Social Security review: summary of papers for the meeting; proposed Cabinet Office further study on impact of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC111: Social Security Review") [details of two reform package options & their respective costs] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 27 Fr Major Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey and Social Security") [approach to Cabinet; composition of the Star Chamber; meeting with Fowler to discuss timetable & identify savings; MISC III/Star Chamber handling of social security reviews] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tu Minor Social Services: No.10 letter to Department of Health and Social Security (Social Security Review) [party held by MT for members of the Review team] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 28 Th Major Social Services: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("Joint DHSS/DE Study of Local Office Networks") [MT pushes for her stipulations regarding oversight and handling of the review to be adhered to, despite apparent prevarication on part of DHSS] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 24 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Social Security and Local Authority Finance") [MT request for study to be set in hand urgently, to consider respective reform proposals jointly] [released Dec 2014]