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PDF 89 May 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Richard Luce minute to John Major ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey (PES): Class XX, Vote 1 (Cabinet Office: Office of the Minister for the Civil Service)") [proposal for additional resources] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("PES 89 - PSA Property Holdings and Other Services to Government Vote") [property holdings' programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Ken Clarke minute to John Major ("Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS): Public Expenditure") [proposed additional costs] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Ken Clarke minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey: Health and Personal Social Services and Departmental Administration") [running costs, NHS Review] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("PES 1989 - DOE (Central)") [house building programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury note ("Cash Limits 1988-89: Publication of Provisional Outturn Figures") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to John Major ("PES 1989: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food") [implementation of Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [scale of magnitude of bids] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Richard Luce minute to John Major ("PES 1989: Arts and Libraries") [strategy is being undermined] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Mayhew minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey 1989 - Treasury Solicitor's Department") [difficult to assess the future] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Chancellor's Department minute ("PES") [additional bids - error in table] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wakeham minute to John Major ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey: Parliamentary Counsel Expenditure") [additional staff, computerisation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to David Mellor (Public Expenditure Survey) [AIDS support grants, training support programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Fowler ("Public Expenditure Survey 1989") [improvement in employment situation slower in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rifkind PS minute to Ridley PS ("PES 1989 - DOE (Central)") [council housing in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1989 Survey") ["the bids are even higher than I had expected"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey") [bids higher than expected] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to David Mellor ("1989 Survey: PSS Specific Grants") [AIDS support grant, training support programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey") [warnings of increasing difficulty] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [maintain downward trend in spending-GDP ratio] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Cabinet") [emphasis on maintaining downward trend in spending-GDP ratio] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Major) [arguably the most difficult public spending round yet faced] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major memorandum ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey") ["We face a difficult survey"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [expenditure should take a declining share of national income] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids") [summary of departmental bids] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [Lawson memo: priority to get inflation on downward path] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Cabinet") [MT note: "Chancellor's paper not worrying enough"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to Douglas Hurd ("Public Expenditure Survey 1989: Current Grant Bids for Local Authority Services") [police, magistrates court, probation service] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major memorandum ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [objective to maintain downward trend in spending-GDP ratio] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [expenditure should take a declining share of national income] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Cabinet Discussion on Public Expenditure") [sandwich critical voices between supporters] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("State Pensions") [average real value of basic pension] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Paul Gray ("Cash Limits for 1988-89") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Mellor minute to Norman Lamont ("Personal Social Services: Specific Grants - PES 1989") [AIDS support grant, training support programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
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