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PREM19/1684
Civil Service (Long term management and manpower policy: duties and responsibilities of civil servants; performance bonuses) (Part 19)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 329
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Date Value Title
86 May 2 Fr Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Budgeting in Government departments”) [“review shows that we need to look again at some of the basic mechanisms”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We Major Civil Service: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“my Department has already gone a long way towards developing the sort of systems envisaged”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu Minor Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to Howe PS (the role of Ministers in management of the civil service) [current management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th Major Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [overall reduction; quarterly figures] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 1 Su Minor Civil Service: Treasury and Civil Service Committee report (“Proposals for an Appraisal Scheme in the Senior Open Structure”) [“Results of the consultative process”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 3 Tu Major Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (“Junior Ministers: Follow-up to seminar on 8 November 1985”) [MT to speak to Cabinet to give civil service reforms “a push”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 9 Mo Major Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Yardsticks for the success of budgeting in departments”) [MT request for measurable evaluation] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 4 Fr Major Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to No.10 (Seventh Report of the Treasury and Civil Service Committee, on civil servants and Ministers: duties & responsibilities) [draft government response] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 7 Mo Minor Civil Service: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Health & Social Security (“Appraisal of performance and potential in the Senior Open Structure”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 7 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (“Response to the TCSC report on ‘Civil Servants and Ministers: Duties and Responsibilities’”) [timing of publication of response to TCSC report and Defence Select Committee report on Westland] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 11 Fr Major Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to 10 Downing Street (“Treasury and Civil Service Committee: Government response to Seventh Report”) [‘Civil Service and Ministers: Duties and Responsibilities’: MT approves revised draft] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 17 Th Major Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (Civil Service reforms) [speaking note for MT, to raise in Cabinet] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 22 Tu Minor Civil Service: Treasury minute to No.10 (‘Guardian’ report) [comments attributed to Permanent Secretary of the Treasury regarding political neutrality of civil servants] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 22 Tu Major Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to No.10 (Seventh Report from the Treasury and Civil Service Committee on ‘Civil Servants and Ministers: Duties and Responsibilities’) [Government response: publication of White Paper] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 25 Fr Minor Civil Service: Treasury internal minute (‘Why are principals leaving the Treasury?’) [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 5 Fr Major Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [latest figures: overall reduction, on course to meet April 1987 manpower target] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 12 Fr Major Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Performance bonus experiment in the Civil Service”) [MT disappointed that “overall response is still negative”] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 16 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service bonus experiment - Hay MSL report”) [“If I ran a company with such a scheme and received a report like this I should abandon the scheme forthwith”] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 22 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Performance Bonuses”) [“it might help if there was a possibility of extra bunce [money/freebie] (or stick) which might arrive unexpectedly”] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 23 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (“Range pay”) [MT supportive] [declassified 2014]