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1988 Jul 5 - 1988 Dec 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2580
Economic Policy (Public spending) (Part 40)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 361
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88 Jul 5 Tue Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Cabinet Office ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [individual spending programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 5 Tue Public spending: Peter Martin minute to Dominic Morris ("Economic Summit 1991") [spending on the summit] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 6 Wed Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [size of bids puts objectives at risk] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 6 Wed Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chancellor's Paper for Cabinet on 14 July") [MT anotation: "this is much too complacent"] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 7 Thu Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids") [departmental summaries] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 8 Fri Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Economic Papers for Cabinet on 14 July") [MT anotation: "In my view the Chancellor is not nearly serious enough"] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 8 Fri Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey 1988 - Forestry Commission") [additional bid] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 8 Fri Public spending: David Young minute to John Major ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [additional bids] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 12 Tue Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [cannot afford bids on anything like the scale proposed] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 13 Wed Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [arrangements for Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 13 Wed Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray (Public Expenditure Cabinet) [tax cuts, tax revenues] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 13 Wed Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure") [need for continuing prudent fiscal policy and restraint in spending] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 19 Tue Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Cash Limits for 1988-89") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 19 Tue Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Star Chamber") [membership of ministers travelling abroad] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 29 Fri Public spending: John Major minute to Ken Clarke ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Health and Personal Social Services") [review and reduce bids] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Sep 8 Thu Public spending: John MacGregor minute to John Major ("PES 1988: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food") [pressing need to strengthen research programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Sep 8 Thu Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John Major ("Education, Science and Arts Committee Report: DES Expenditure Plans") [draft response] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Sep 13 Tue Public spending: John Major minute to Ken Clarke (1988 Public Expenditure Survey) [programme bids, running costs] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Sep 30 Fri Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting on Public Expenditure: Monday 3 October") [focus on planning total and spending to GDP ratio] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 3 Mon Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Parkinson-Major-Butler) [likely there would be a need for a Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2016]