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PREM19/1685
Civil Service (Pay and pensions: pay dispute; review of early retirement arrangements) (Part 15)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 405
Themes: Executive, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action

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85 Mar 13 We Major Civil Service: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”) [“There are conflicts between our objectives as an employer and what we are trying to achieve nationally with regard to pay”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”) [proposes improved offer to prevent strike action] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 28 Th Major Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Heseltine, Tebbit, Fowler, Jenkin, Gowrie, Hayhoe) [“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [legal objections to proceeding with policy amendments] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Civil Service: Treasury briefing for No.10 (“Civil Service unions: ballots for industrial action”) [pay negotiations] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Non-industrial Civil Service pay negotiations”) [“Four out of the eight unions have now held ballots with the view of obtaining a mandate for strike action”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“MISC66”) [“Sticking on 4.4% would be wrong: it implies that the only way to get an increased pay offer is to strike”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (“Review of Early Retirement Arrangements”) [“fundamental revisions of existing terms and conditions of service”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Treasury (pay negotiations) [“On balance, the Prime Minister favours [higher] offer of 4.9 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 24 We Major Civil Service: Tebbit letter to Lord Gowrie (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [“I am very much opposed to the practice of civil servants notionally retiring at the age of 60, collecting their lump sums and being immediately re-employed”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 30 Tu Major Civil Service: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (“Review of early retirement arrangements”) [implementing recommendations on policy reform] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 30 Tu Major Civil Service: Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of early retirement arrangements”) [synopsis of main proposals] [declassified 2014]
85 May 15 We Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Non-industrial Civil Service pay 1985”) [“pay review is… effectively at an end and I think that we can regard the outcome as satisfactory”] [declassfied 2014]
85 May 31 Fr Major Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Tebbit (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [“the sooner we can extend the policy of withdrawing the option of formal retirement and re-employment in the same grade throughout the Service the better”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 4 Tu Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1985”) [Gowrie : “the level of pay increases for industrials should remain commensurate with those for the non-industrials who settle before them”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 6 Fr Major Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“MISC 66: Ministerial Group on Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [MT agrees to advice that she should chair meeting] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 25 We Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [“the Government will increasingly need a Megaw type framework to legitimise its stance”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 26 Th Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Civil Service Pay Arrangements”) [“The Treasury now need a mandate from Ministers as to what final offer might be put to the unions”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay: MISC 66, 19 February”) [options following Unions’ rejection of Government proposals] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [“Only two of the civil service unions have agreed to MEGAW: we have to decide whether to impose it unilaterally or let it fall”] [declassified 2014]