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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2105
Economic Policy (Public spending) (Part 38)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 280
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Media, Executive

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Date Value Title
87 Sep 21 Mo Major Public spending: Robin Cook letter to John Wakeham (Social Security) [debate on legislation] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 21 Mo Major Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Income Related Benefit Rates") [cannot exempt income-related benefits from usual survey process] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 24 Th Major Public spending: Jack Cunningham letter to MT (Social Security) [Community Charge and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 25 Fr Major Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Social Security") [child benefit and income-related benefit reductions likely to be most controversial] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 29 Tu Major Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Survey: Social Security - Income Related Benefits") [freezing child benefit, new Social Security bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 29 Tu Major Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Social Security") [reviews of mobility allowance, long-term invalidity benefit] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We Major Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Department of Employment") [Fowler believes he would look foolish if other departments received funding increases] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We Major Public spending: Department of Employment note to David Norgrove ("DE Measures and Unemployment") [conditions for real and sustained employment growth] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We Major Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We Major Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We Major Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey") [avoiding new spending commitments] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 2 Fr Major Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Moore (Social Security) [Community Charge liabilites and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 2 Fr Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Survey Prospects") [overall picture, issues outstanding] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 2 Fr Major Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [spending targets, programmes not yet settled] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 5 Mo Major Public spending: Whitelaw PS record of conversation (Whitelaw-Moore-Fowler-Wakeham-Major-Howard-Scott) [income-related benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 5 Mo Major Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Major) [defence, education, aid, Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 6 Tu Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("MoD Forward Purchases") [foreign currency requirement] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 7 We Major Public spending: Nicholas Scott minute to John Wakeham (parliamentary announcements) [child benefit, income-related benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 14 We Major Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Survey: Social Security") [announcements which might prove controversial] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 19 Mo Major Public spending: John Major minute to Kenneth Baker ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Education") [universities, science, AIDS research] [declassified Jul 2016]