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PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 9th to 11th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["... monitoring and control of nationalised industries... introduction of statutory sick pay scheme... defence works in the Falkland Islands... the particular replies... are not, in themselves, newsworthy...] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Biffen, Wakeham) [Procedure Committee proposals for the conduct of Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Response to the Fourth Report from the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration") [extending PCS jurisdiction to various non-Departmental Public Bodies] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Government reply to Foreign Affairs Committee's Report on famine in Africa (HC 56)") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 12th and 13th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["Although the terms of the Treasury minute are in no way controversial, extraneous factors could lead to its publication receiving some attention in the press"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Merchant shipping: involvement of Parliamentary Private Secretaries") [MT rejects request for Ridley PPS to have access to confidential papers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 15th to 25th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1984-85") ["Even with the interest of the coming debate we doubt whether the Treasury minute will attract much interest"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Memorandum on the 8th and 14th Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 1984/85) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Report on Public Expenditure") ["The draft reply... [emphasises] the importance of service output rather than expenditure as a measure of NHS growth, and... [highlights] the role of efficiency in achieving service improvements"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Follow-up Report on Medical Education") ["... critical of the Government for failing to achieve the changes it had recommended"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Lobbyists") ["... motion to confirm and clarify the responsibilities of Members with regard to the registration in the Register of Members' interests, and declaration, of their paid activities as Parliamentary 'advisers' and 'consultants'] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Government reply to the Report for House of Lords select committee on overseas trade") ["...causes and implications of the deficit on the... [UK]'s balance of trade in manufactures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Terence Higgins MP (Government reply to the First Report from the Liaison Committee (Session 1984-85) on the Select Committee system) ["... the new Departmentally-related select committees set up in 1979 have now established themselves as a major, successful Parliamentary reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("Marine science and technology") [Government response to House of Lord select committee report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (Select Committees) [Nigel Wicks, Robert Armstrong] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Procedure Committee Report on Public Bill Procedure") ["(MT) very much agrees with [Biffen]... that the Committee's proposal for a Legislative Business Committee to control time on Government Bills in Committee should be rejected... however, she shares Mr. Jopling's reservations about the Lord Privy Seal's proposals for bringing forward to 50 hours the normal guillotine point in the Standing Committee proceedings. She believes that 50 hours might well look high-handed..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 29th, 30th and 36th - 38th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1984-85") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the First to Fourth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Morrison letter to Biffen ("Debate on draft EC Directive - Powered Industrial Trucks") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Private Secretaries ("Debate on the Motion on the Easter adjournment") ["As usual on these occasions, I am writing to all Private Offices to ask for briefing material that the Leader of the House will need when winding up"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Command Paper publication") ["Accounts of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for year ended 31 March 1985. The Accounts do not contain anything controversial"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Committee on Welsh Affairs Report on Coastal Sewage Pollution in Wales") ["It is not expected that the content of the response and its publication date will give rise to any Parliamentary problems"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Employment Select Committee Report on long term unemployment") ["... believes that the measures announced in the Budget offer a surer and more cost-effective way of providing help... than the Select Committee's proposals"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to Northern Ireland Office (Ulster Unionist Party: renomination to positions previously occupied on Select Committees and other bodies) [draft reply to Jim Molyneaux: "I do not believe the House would readily accept a situation where your members were prepared to serve on these Committees but not participate in the work of the Chamber itself"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Report of the Privileges Committee") ["... leak of the draft Report of the Environment Committee on Radioactive Waste... It is a rather odd principle that a journalist should be punished and the leaker should go free... But, however cogent Bernard's arguments, Government members must be seen to vote in favour of the report, given that the Lord Privy Seal is the Chairman and the Attorney General is a member"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the Twelfth to Fourteenth and Sixteenth to Eighteenth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["I doubt that the Treasury minute will attract much attention. It is not controversial and there are no particularly newsworthy features"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Confidentiality of Normal Vetting (NV)") ["If, as a result of a breach, it became necessary to discuss NV with the Defence Committee... there should be no reference to the role of the police, who have co-operated... on the understanding that the practice would remain confidential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Lucas letter to Whitelaw ("Report to the Eden committee on Metrological Control of Equipment for Use for Trade - Government reponse") ["... Eden Report (concerning weighing and measuring equipment for use for trade)... The Deregulation White Paper "Building Businesses - Not Barriers" commits us to publishing a response by August and I now attach the draft Response")] [declassified Jul 2016]
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