Archive

1981 Apr 16 - 1981 May 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/401
Civil service (Pay and pensions: public sector pay policy; Civil Service pay dispute; industrial action; proposal for independent inquiry) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 252
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81 May 5 Tu Major Civil Service: Duguid minute to Lankester ("Civil Service Pay") [terms of reference for longer-term inquiry into Civil Service pay] [declassified 2011]
81 May 5 Tu Major Civil Service: Department of Transport letter to No.10 (engineers on strike at DVLC at Swansea) [MT: "We can't stand idly by for much longer"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Civil Service Dispute") [MT "remains of the view that arbitration in 1982 would cause the greatest difficulties for the Government"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We Major Civil Service: John Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Industrial Dispute: 6 May") ["Civil Service industrial action has become a little, although not dramatically, intensified today"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 7 Th Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (Civil Service strike and the Inland Revenue) [circumventing the strike and improving the flow of revenue] [declassified 2011]
81 May 7 Th Major Civil Service: Lord President's Office letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action at DVLC") [declassified 2011]
81 May 7 Th Major Civil Service: Fowler letter to Soames ("Civil Service Industrial Action: DVLC, Swansea") ["escalation" of strike at DVLC; Fowler asks for guidance] [declassified 2011]
81 May 7 Th Major Civil Service: Prior minute to MT ("Civil Service Dispute") [arbitration in 1982, longer-term inquiry into Civil Service pay] [declassified 2011]
81 May 7 Th Major Civil Service: Derek Rayner minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") [proposed longer-term inquiry into Civil Service pay] [declassified 2011]
81 May 7 Th Major Civil Service: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Civil Service Industrial Dispute: Scottish Courts Administration") [declassified 2011]
81 May 8 Fr Major Civil Service: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Civil Service Pay: Independent Inquiry") [declassified 2011]
81 May 8 Fr Major Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 May 8 Fr Major Civil Service: Fowler minute to MT ("Industrial Action at DVLC") [Fowler's plans for dealing with strike] [declassified 2011]
81 May 11 Mo Major Civil Service: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Civil Service Industrial Action: DVLC Swansea") [feedback from Hayhoe's meeting on "the now rather serious industrial situation at the DVLC at Swansea"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Civil Service Pay") [Civil Service strike] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Civil Service: Lankester minute to MT (Civil Service strike: Soames would like to take only a 7 per cent pay increase) [MT: "It would put everyone else in acute difficulty"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Civil Service: Vereker minute to Whitmore ("Cabinet 14 May: Civil Service Industrial Dispute") [latest developments in negotiations with trade unions] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 May 15 Fr Major Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]