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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 Oct 18 Tue Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting on Child Benefit") [proposal not to uprate] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 7 Fri Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Negotiations") [health, territorial departments, Star Chamber candidates] [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 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 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 19 Tue Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Cash Limits for 1988-89") [publication of White Paper] [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 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 Oct 24 Mon Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Autumn Statement") [timetable, arrangements for presentation] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Major PS ("Autumn Statement: Oral Statement: Chancellor's Draft, Second Half") [keeping public spending as close as possible to planning totals] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Public spending: Treasury press release ("Autumn Statement: Public Expenditure Plans") [outturn tables] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Public spending: Treasury press release ("Economic Prospects for 1989") [outturn tables] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 24 Mon Public spending: Ken Clarke minute to John Major (Autumn Statement) [allocations to health authorities] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 24 Mon Public spending: John Major and George Younger minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [three-year settlement not to be reopened unless a significant change in economic conditions] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 24 Mon Public spending: Andrew Dunlop minute to Paul Gray ("1988 PES: Defence") [settlement is fair and reasonable] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 27 Thu Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chief Secretary's Paper for Public Expenditure Cabinet") [agreements reached] [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 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 13 Tue Public spending: John Major minute to Ken Clarke (1988 Public Expenditure Survey) [programme bids, running costs] [declassified Dec 2016]