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1985 Sep 10 - 1986 Apr 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1683
Civil Service (Long term management and manpower policy: control of civil service running costs; duties and responsibilities of civil servants; performance bonus experiment; budgeting in government departments) (Part 18)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 380
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Date Value Title
85 Dec 16 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT “attaches great importance to [its] success”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 18 We Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [“there is no question of an attack on your block budget”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 18 We Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Patrick Mayhew (“DPP: Staffing of Fraud Work”) [“It is the quality and experience of staff employed on fraud work which may most need to be tackled”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 16 Th Major Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“The Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service”) [“to remove artificial barriers which can obstruct the selection of the right people for jobs”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu Major Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“having looked at the papers I find Michael Heseltine’s arguments compelling”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th Major Civil Service: Paul Channon minute to MT (“Government Emergency Communications: Transfer of Responsibilities”) [from DTI to Home Office] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo Major Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [“we shall need to exercise continuing restraint in 1986 and 1987 if we are to hold to our published manpower targets”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 26 We Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office note for the record (Robert Armstrong’s evidence to the Treasury & Civil Service Select Committee) [role of civil servants; implications of Westland affair] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 4 Tu Major Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to Howe (“Secondments to the Civil Service: Civil Service Commission General Regulations”) [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 7 Fr Major Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [tallying increases in DHSS staff with government targets] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 20 Th Major Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“what we do need are clear targets”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 20 Th Major Civil Service: MT letter to Lord Rayner (promoting the strengths of British industry) [“campaigns… need to be developed carefully… to ensure that efforts are not… counter-productive, particularly in overseas markets”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 21 Fr Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Grades 2 and 3: Discretionary Pay and Arrangements for Assessment and Appraisal”) [Government follow-up to Top Salaries Review Body report] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 26 We Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“The cause of better budgeting would suffer considerable harm if this report were widely circulated”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 1 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to John MacGregor PS (Budgeting in Government Departments report) [MT concerned that report is superfluous] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 1 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (Control of Civil Service running costs) [rebuttal of ‘Times’ article suggesting reform efforts have stalled] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 8 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Discretionary Increments for Grades 2 and 3 in the Civil Service”) [MT to meet with Lawson to discuss his objections to Cabinet Office proposals] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 8 Tu Major Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“The recommendations are very much a matter of making budgeting work rather than of setting up new systems to achieve the same objectives”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 9 We Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Wicks (“Discretionary Increments for Grades 2 and 3”) [“this is the wrong time to give yet more money to senior civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 10 Th Major Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to MT (“Discretionary Increments for Grades 2 and 3”) [“I favour the introduction of some form of discretionary performance-related element”] [declassified 2014]