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PREM19/1686
Civil Service (Property Services Agency (PSA) restructuring: report by Sir Geoffrey Wardale on fraud in the PSA) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 392
Themes: Executive, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action

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Date Value Title
82 Jul 22 Th Major Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT (financial management of Property Services Agency activity) [MT rejects proposed measure for stricter management] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 9 Th Major Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT (“Property Division in PSA”) [“We will only decide to do it if the necessary investigation shows that any cost or effort would be amply rewarded”] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 21 Tu Major Civil Service: Brittan letter to Heseltine (“PSA: accommodation costs”) [request to reduce costs in line with other Departments] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 30 Th Major Civil Service: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“PSA accommodation costs”) [disputes Brittan’s understanding of what was agreed in their meeting regarding cost cutting] [declassified 2014]
82 Oct 13 We Major Civil Service: Heseltine PS letter to Fowler PS (PSA Property Division) [main impact “would be to pursue further the practice of accountability with the Civil Service”] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 22 Fr Major Civil Service: Tom King minute to MT (“Restructuring within the Property Services Agency”) [“much more cautious than Mr Heseltine’s proposal”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 28 Th Major Civil Service: Jenkin minute to MT (“Reorganisation of PSA”) [MT: “I am not convinced of the wisdom of this change”] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 1 Mo Major Civil Service: Wardale Enquiry Final Report to the Secretary of State for the Environment (“Property Services Agency”) [“complacency… dishonesty… fraud”] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 14 We Major Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin) [publication of Wardale Touche Ross report on the Property Services Agency: damning report will “require careful handling”] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 23 Fr Major Civil Service: No.10 minute to Jenkin PS (“Restructuring of PSA”) [government plans should be decided before WTR report on Property Services Agency published] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 29 Th Major Civil Service: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (restructuring the Property Services Agency) [Jenkin to meet with PSA trade union] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 30 Fr Major Civil Service: Jenkin minute to No.10 (“PSA: Wardale/Touche Ross (WTR) report on irregularities”) [“highly critical of the [Property Services] Agency and will attract adverse publicity”] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 5 We Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“PSA: Wardale/Touche Ross (WTR) Report on Irregularities”) [MT keen that Property Services Agency restructuring not be delayed by publication of the report and reform of management] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major Civil Service: Jenkin PS note to No.10 (“PSA: restructuring”) [Property Services Agency: consultation with trade unions] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 3 Th Major Civil Service: Jenkin minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Property Services Agency restructuring) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 15 Tu Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“PSA reorganisation’) [MT agrees to meeting with Chief Executive and relevant Ministers to discuss proposals] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Civil Service: Jenkin letter to Lord Hailsham (“PSA restructuring”) [addresses Hailsham’s concerns] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“PSA restructuring”) [Property Services Agency: “Opinions are divided on the merits of these proposals”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 19 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Heseltine, Rees, Armstrong, Ibbs, Montague Alfred) [“PSA restructuring”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 9 Mo Major Civil Service: Cabinet Officer letter to Chief Executive of the PSA (Property Services Agency restructuring) [MT request for report] [declassified 2014]