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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/781
Government machinery (Future of the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection; departmental arrangements for overseas aid and development: management review of Overseas Development Administration (ODA); review of common services of FCO and ODA) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 215
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Date Value Title
79 May 30 We Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to FCO (Overseas Development Administration) [declassified 2012]
79 Jul 16 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to FCO (“Management Review of ODA”) [MT: “a waste of time and money”] [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 8 Tu Major Government machinery: Rayner letter to Hurd (“The merger of the FCO and the former ODM”) [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 15 Tu Major Government machinery: Rayner letter to ODA (“Management Review”) [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 13 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to FCO (ODA/FCO merger) [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 20 Th Major Government machinery: FCO letter to Rayner Unit (“Merger of the FCO and the former ODM”) [declassified 2012]
80 Aug 4 Mo Major Government machinery: Carrington minute to MT (“Management Review of the ODA”) [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo Minor Government machinery: No.10 letter to FCO (FCO/ODA common services integration) [MT “very disappointing. Other departments have not found the same difficulties”] [declassified 2012]
82 May 26 We Major Government machinery: Heseltine minute to MT (transfer of Overseas Diplomatic Estate from Department of Environment to FCO) [declassified 2012]