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1990 Jun 8 - 1990 Oct 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3170
Social Services (Uprating of social security benefits, including child support) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 253
Themes: Social security & welfare, Society, Family, Women, Public spending & borrowing

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Date Value Title
90 Jul 13 Fr Major Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Child Maintenance") [proposals] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jul 13 Fr Major Social services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Lone Parents and Child Maintenance") [covering note & attached minute from Tony Newton] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jul 13 Fr Major Social services: Lord Mackay minute to MT ("Review of Child Maintenance") [specific concerns, observations & recommendations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jul 13 Fr Major Social services: Cabinet Officer briefing for MT ("Child Maintenance") [detail of Tony Newton's proposals & the Lord Chancellor's specific concerns] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jul 17 Tu Major Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Rifkind, Lamont, Lord Mackay, Lord Fraser, Kenneth Baker, Tony Newton, John Patten) ["Child Maintenance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 28 Fr Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child tax allowances and child benefit") [covering minute for attached Policy Unit note on "merits of different approaches to child support... [and] the action to be taken in the short term"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo Major Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [covering minute for draft] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu Major Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Social Security benefits: 1991/92 uprating") [advance notice of main features of forthcoming statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [analysis & advice on minute from Tony Newton & related correspondence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child benefit and PES") ["Understandably, Mr. Newton sees attractions in his concept of a "family premium". But you may feel that you and colleagues should consider the new policy departure more thoroughly"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr Major Social services: No.10 letter to Newton PS ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [MT's "detailed points on the proposals"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo Major Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Child benefit") ["Either a further freeze or up-rating child benefit would... be clear and defensible on grounds of principle. But Tony Newton's proposal would not"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("draft Social Security Uprating statement") [suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu Minor Social services: No.10 minute (internal) to Turnbull (policy changes agreed during course of annual Public Expenditure Surveys) ["two reasons why such agreements should be brought to the attention of other Ministers"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu Major Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lamont, Tony Newton, Tim Renton) ["Social Security uprating 1991-92"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu Major Social services: Howe letter to Tony Newton ("DSS legislation 1990-91: child maintenance") ["I am unhappy about embarking on this bill on the basis you propose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We Major Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 (Social Security uprating) [final draft of Tony Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Draft statement on child maintenance") [Tony Newton statement to Parliament: suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo Major Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 ("Children Come First: the Government's proposals on maintenance for children") [Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]