1980 Jan 22 - 1981 Apr 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/921
Social services (Uprating of social security benefits) (Part 2)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2012 Dec 28 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 176 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
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| 80 Jan 23 We | Major | Social services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure and the Economic Outlook”) [Lankester note on Howe-Jenkin agreements] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jan 29 Tu | Minor | Social services: MT letter to Andrew Bowden MP (Public expenditure announcements on social security: benefits shortfall) [“We must face… reality”] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Feb 20 We | Major | Social services: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Public expenditure announcements: Social Security”) [Chancellor’s minute of 15 Feb] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Mar 14 Fr | Minor | Social services: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (“Social Security announcement”) [Bill & possible amendments] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Mar 17 Mo | Minor | Social services: MT letter to Sir Bernard Ledwidge (Child Benefit) [“Our prime objective must be to get the economy moving”] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Mar 26 We | Major | Social services: No.10 minute to MT (Social Security (No. 2) Bill) [tight timetable - MT concerns at early guillotine] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Apr 11 Fr | Minor | Social services: Conservative Research Department briefing for MPs (Social Security (No. 2) Bill) [second reading, plus note from Paymaster General’s Office] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jun 9 Mo | Minor | Social services: MT letter to John Silkin (invalidity benefit) [making it taxable] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jul 28 Mo | Major | Social services: Jenkin minute to MT (uprating order for Child Benefit) [MT: “I am very much against this”; but Lankester notes she acquiesced] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Oct 29 We | Major | Social services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: the Social Security Programme”) [savings proposed] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 9 Tu | Major | Social services: No.10 minute to MT (“Payment of Social Security benefits”) [Jenkin statement to Parliament on Bill "went quiet well"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 16 Fr | Major | Social services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Social Security benefits - legislation for the 1 per cent reduction”) [clawing back excess uprating made in Nov 1980] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Major | Social services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Parliamentary Affairs: Social Security Bill”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 9 Mo | Major | Social services: Jenkin letter to Howe (“Social Security Bill”) [correspondence on legislation for one percent reduction in benefits] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Minor | Social services: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Statement on the uprating of social security benefits”) [draft for delivery] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 3 Fr | Major | Social services: Jenkin minute to MT (“Social security benefits price protection”) [rely on MT pledge on pensions - do not give statutory form, but define pensioners] [declassified 2012] |