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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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86 Apr 10 Th Major Civil Service: Keith Joseph letter to John MacGregor (Budgeting in Government Departments) [“need for flexibility”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 17 Th Major Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“I consider it important that Departments should be free to interpret the principles in the light of their own particular needs and circumstances”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 17 Th Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to John MacGregor PS (“Budgeting in Departments”) [“The Government does not want systems for their own sake or as window dressing”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 18 Fr Major Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Budgeting in Departments”) [draft of report’s proposed foreword by MT] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 25 Fr Minor Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal minute (“Appraisal of Performance and Potential in the Senior Open Structure”) [paper on the proposed introduction of “more structured and formalised methods”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 28 Mo Major Civil Service: Department of Health & Social Security letter to Cabinet Office (“Managing a Government Department”) [Ken Stowe lecture to the Royal Society of Arts] [declassified 2014]