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PREM19/1780
Government Machinery (Non-departmental public bodies (quangos): a Guide for Departments; review programme) (Part 3)

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Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 441
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81 Apr 6 Mo Major Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Barney Hayhoe PS (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [MT comments on draft] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 7 Tu Major Government Machinery: Mark Carlisle letter to Barney Hayhoe (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 21 Tu Major Government Machinery: Jenkin letter to Barney Hayhoe (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [feedback for revised draft] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 22 We Major Government Machinery: Barney Hayhoe minute to MT (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [draft revised at MT’s request] [declassified 2014]
81 Jun 29 Mo Major Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Barney Hayhoe PS (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [MT revisions] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 15 We Minor Government Machinery: Brittan letter to Barney Hayhoe (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [declassified 2014]
82 Jan 14 Th Minor Government Machinery: Baroness Young minute to MT (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: Facts and Figures”) [declassified 2014]
82 Jan 21 Th Minor Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: Facts and Figures”) [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major Government Machinery: Baroness Young minute to MT (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: results of 1981 Reviews by Departments”) [declassified 2014]
82 Oct 25 Mo Minor Government Machinery: Baroness Young minute to MT (“Ministerial Responsibility for the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts”) [declassified 2014]
83 Jan 28 Fr Minor Government Machinery: Baroness Young PS letter to No.10 (“Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts”) [PQ on transfer of responsibility] [declassified 2014]
83 Feb 25 Fr Major Government Machinery: Baroness Young minute to MT (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: 1982 Review”) [“no very significant savings this year”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 12 Tu Major Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (“Strategy for Unemployment”) [suggests further review of quangos] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 30 Tu Major Government Machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Non-Departmental Public Bodies: a Guide for Departments) [revised in line with MT announcement on ‘value for money’ initiative] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 15 Fr Major Government Machinery: Jopling letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Eggs Authority”) [abolition] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 17 Tu Minor Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Public Bodies 1985”) [key statistics] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 14 Mo Major Government Machinery: Richard Luce letter to MT (“Reviews of Non-Departmental Public Bodies: Progress Report”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 15 Tu Major Government Machinery: Richard Luce letter to Nick Ridley (“Privatisation and Quangos”) [“we should consider at an early stage the most cost-effective and defensible arrangements”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 23 We Major Government Machinery: Walker letter to Richard Luce (privatisation of British Gas: consumer protection) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 31 Th Major Government Machinery: Nick Ridley letter to Richard Luce (privatisation and quangos) [water industry consultative bodies] [declassified 2014]