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PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Walker minute to Tom King ("Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment") [industrial support programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment") [job creation not the whole purpose of Jenkin's programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [public spending priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Running Costs Targets") [how to make new targets regime public] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure: 1985 Survey Prospects") [departments' bids for additional money] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Caroline Ryder minute to MT ("Seminar at Chequers for Cabinet Colleagues to Discuss Public Expenditure") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Chequers Public Expenditure Discussion") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Public Expenditure") [meeting to discuss main issues facing the government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (public spending round) [better way of negotiating with departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Cabinet on Sunday, 23 June: Public Expenditure Priorities") [the task ahead] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [ministers should not approach discussion as departmental advocates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [ministers should not approach discussion as departmental advocates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor and Chief Secretary") [prospects for the public expenditure round] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure Priorities") ["We have had an enormous problem on public expenditure"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [need to "get away from the reputation for endless cuts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Chequers Cabinet meeting) [public spending priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Chequers Meeting on Public Expenditure, 23 June 1985") [importance of reducing burden of public sector on rest of economy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (Cabinet discussion) [economic prospects, expenditure survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Briefing for the Publication on Thursday 11 July 1t 3.30pm of Cash Limits Provisional 1984-85 Outturn White Paper") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Cash Limits for 1984-85") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Press Handling after Cabinet") ["message should be business as usual"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Press Handling of Cabinet") ["You really have to present a rigorous face to the world"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Treasury "has no further fallback position"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Economic Outlook and Public Expenditure (C(85) 17 and 18)") [inflation and unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 minute ("Press Line after Cabinet") [commitment to control of public spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [press line to take after Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Biffen) [need to show strength and coherence on public spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Owen minute to MT ("Public Spending: How to Hold the Baseline") [if the Treasury gives any more ground, it will jeopardise scope for tax cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute ("Public Expenditure Presentation") ["the argument that no further cuts can be made because we have already gone too deep is discredited"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (public spending round) ["People are confused about the central aim of economic strategy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to Peter Rees ("1985 PES Report: DTI Chapter") [reduction in regional spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Round") [need to avoid the charge of a u-turn] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Expenditure on Scotland and Northern Ireland") ["snouts well and truly in the public expenditure trough"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury paper ("PES 1985: Home Office Additional Bids") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [proposed spending cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("1985 Public Expenditure Exercise") [timetable, composition of Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to John MacGregor ("Driving Examiners") [no public expenditure implications of proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [asset sales, running costs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("1985 Survey: Draft Paper for Cabinet") [question of running costs needs to be handled with care] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT (Walker's bid for additional money) [declassified Dec 2014]
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