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PREM19/1680
Cabinet (Questions of Procedure for Ministers) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 310
Themes: Conservative Party (organization), Executive, Executive (appointments), Judiciary, Parliament, Foreign policy - theory and process, Defence (general), Security services & intelligence

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Date Value Title
83 Oct 13 Th Minor Cabinet: Ingham minute to Butler (“Co-ordination - Procedures”) [plans for improving co-ordination in Government] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 18 Tu Minor Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Nick Ridley PS (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 24 Mo Minor Cabinet: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries (government announcements) [procedure] [declassifed 2014]
83 Oct 27 Th Minor Cabinet: No.10 internal minute (“John Selwyn Gummer”) [advice on television & radio fee offers] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Cabinet: Chief Whip minute to Ministers (“Ministers in charge of Departments”) [complaints from MPs about delay in receiving replies from Ministers] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fr Major Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (breach of security) [Brittan leaves classified papers exposed: Armstrong discusses with MT and Brittan] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 7 Tu Minor Cabinet: No.10 letter to Independent Broadcasting Authority (unsolicited gifts) [private request from former No.10 staff member on behalf of Royal College of Physicians for Whitehall guest speaker to outline Government protocol for comparison] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 11 Tu Minor Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 18 Th Minor Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministers’ Weekend Addresses”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 18 Th Minor Cabinet: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s responsibilities) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 30 Tu Minor Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Correspondence and Memoranda for Cabinet and Cabinet Committees”) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 30 Tu Major Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Antony Acland (Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the media) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Minor Cabinet: Whitelaw PS letter to Lord Hailsham PS (“H Committee Correspondence”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu Major Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Heseltine PS (“OD and OD(FAF) Meetings on 11 December 1984”) [circulation of memoranda] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 19 We Minor Cabinet: Chief Whip APS letter to Cabinet Office (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [legal actions] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 2 Tu Major Cabinet: No.10 note to MT (Chequers meeting on public expenditure: press leak) [MT approves Nick Ridley request to raise issue at next Cabinet meeting] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 16 Mo Major Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [Parliamentary sub-committee unprecedented request for Cabinet paper] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr Major Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers (QPM)”) [MT opposes setting a precedent for publishing Cabinet documents] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Cabinet: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“ASPIRE”) [clearance to support spinal injury research appeal for funds] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo Minor Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]