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PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [extension of targets introduced in 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Manpower Numbers: Staff in Post at 1 July 1985”) [“reduction since the Government took office in 1979 is some 18.6 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to David Young (“Fraud Staff”) [agrees in principle to case for staff increase but recommends a less ambitious programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: David Young letter to John MacGregor (“Fraud Staff: Expansion”) [presses case for his own recommended scale of staff increase] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tebbit letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“I am disappointed that no special provision is made to deal with fee earning establishments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Government Emergency Communications Systems”) [MT request for advice on possibility of competitive tenders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“clearly of the first importance that this change in procedure is not seen… as an indication that the Government is going soft on pay”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Pay Prospects for 1985/86 and Longer Term Arrangements for Civil Service Pay”) [“The price of real pay increases above the levels of our competitors will be counted in lost jobs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“essential that running costs are set at realistic levels”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [savings which “could be obtained by Departments through improvements in energy efficiency”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“3 October Cabinet: Control of Running Costs”) [“we have agreed to running costs targets ultimately in place of a manpower count”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [response to MT request for improved management training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [outlines concerns with Lawson proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [MT request for improved, and value-for-money, management training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Northern Ireland Office minute to No.10 (Anne Mueller speech on excellence in public sector) [personnel management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to George Younger (Running Costs) [“I want to make an early announcement confirming the decision to move to control of running costs and ending the pay assumption”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Howe (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [Select Committee scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“I feel that there would be merit in… an alternative method”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“Department of the Registers of Scotland… is an important element in achieving our policy of extending home ownership in Scotland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [“I could not justify presenting your Department’s estimates to Parliament in a format that differed from others”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Running Costs Control”) [“all Departmental Ministers will, in effect, be required to conceal their pay assumptions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [rejects Heseltine arguments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Ministry of Defence”) [unable to agree limit with Heseltine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants in relation to Ministers”) [Parliamentary scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [ongoing dispute over proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Progress Report”) [“Mr Heseltine made a great fuss about this exercise”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Running Costs Control”) [“I see no need to make any statement about pay assumptions in running costs limits until details of departmental figures have been announced”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [Heseltine sticks to his guns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [part of broader management reforms to improve efficiency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“too early to draw general conclusions about the operation and effects of bonus arrangements”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Running Costs”) [“cannot accept that the Ministry of Defence should be exempt from the Cabinet decision”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“This is not simply a matter of accounting practice: it is a crucial issue… for the support of our defence capabilities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Wicks (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [staff attitudes “are somewhat negative”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“excellent opportunity to improve performance… is in danger of being wasted”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tom King minute to MT (“Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower and Departmental Running Costs”) [minor upward adjustment in interim targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [latest figures; “overall reduction [of] 18.6 per cent since the Government took office”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Running Businesses in Government: The Next Steps Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Transport”) [“The pressure must be to reduce costs while maintaining or improving services”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Fee Earning Businesses In Government”) [question of “whether control of gross running costs should continue to apply for fee earning activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT: “We must make it a success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT “attaches great importance to [its] success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [“there is no question of an attack on your block budget”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Patrick Mayhew (“DPP: Staffing of Fraud Work”) [“It is the quality and experience of staff employed on fraud work which may most need to be tackled”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“The Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service”) [“to remove artificial barriers which can obstruct the selection of the right people for jobs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“having looked at the papers I find Michael Heseltine’s arguments compelling”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Paul Channon minute to MT (“Government Emergency Communications: Transfer of Responsibilities”) [from DTI to Home Office] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [“we shall need to exercise continuing restraint in 1986 and 1987 if we are to hold to our published manpower targets”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office note for the record (Robert Armstrong’s evidence to the Treasury & Civil Service Select Committee) [role of civil servants; implications of Westland affair] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to Howe (“Secondments to the Civil Service: Civil Service Commission General Regulations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [tallying increases in DHSS staff with government targets] [declassified 2014]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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