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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 Sep 30 Mo Major Social Services: No.10 minute to Fowler PS ("Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Office Networks") [MT's request that study should be turned into a scrutiny, with the help & advice of Efficiency Unit & a designated official to be placed in charge] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 12 We Major Social Services: No.10 minute to MT (Social Security Review: uprating) [Fowler statement to Parliament; Cabinet discussion] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 4 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Selling the Benefit Reviews") [key points] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 30 We Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Pensions") [savings on SERPS: key figures based on amended Fowler proposals; contracting-out; presentation] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Draft Social Security White Paper") [comments on draft] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 12 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler") [Social Security reform: White Paper: proposed workaround to avoid internal government disagreements becoming public] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 30 Mo Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler: Social Security Savings") ["The Treasury and DHSS are arguing about how much was promised when by whom"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 111") [Social Security reform: "If we are driven back to draining SERPS rather than abolishing it, it is important to set fairly penal rates for those remaining in SERPS. Norman Fowler should be invited to produce final proposals along these lines"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 25 Fr Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: notes on 'how SERPS works' & on proposed reforms; MT notes that she wishes to discuss] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 27 Fr Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Expenditure") [Fowler "trying to escape the tough cuts... We didn't just want structural changes for their own sake; he gets his reforms if the taxpayer saves some money"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Family Credit") ["Fowler has not yet made out a strong enough case for spending more"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Pensioner Losers") ["Fowler is right that pensioner losers present a real political problem, but... it is not as bad as he claims; and... there is a better way of dealing with it than his proposal"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 27 We Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Benefit Reviews") [gainers & losers; key reform achievements] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Cost of SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Unemployment Benefit Offices") [argument for rationlisation of UBO/DHSS offices; MT of view that issue has already been addressed by Rayner review] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 11 Fr Major Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What Should We Do About SERPS?") [options] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 3 Th Major Social Services: No.10 record of conversation ("Note for the Record") [Ingham, Norgrove: presentation of the payment of arrears of housing benefit to Liverpool and other authorities] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 13 We Major Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Tony Newton) ["MISC 111": Social Security reform: "discussion centred on the number of gainers and losers under the proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tu Major Social Services: Patrick Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Social Security Review: Public Service Pensions - Part-Timers") ["I am concerned that the proposal... could add significantly to local authority current expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 29 Mo Major Social Services: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Social Security Review") [Whitelaw, Fowler, Biffen, Ingham, Patrick Jenkin, Lord Gowrie, Tony Newton: publicity measures to widen coverage of consultation] [released Dec 2014]