1983 Aug 1 - 1983 Oct 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/986
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 24)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 320 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Oct 7 Fr | Major | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey”) [priority Ministries to target for savings] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 7 Fr | Major | Economic policy: No.10 note to MT (Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey) [briefing: key points] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 7 Fr | Major | Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [Defence & Social Security; MISC group] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Major | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Rees) [“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Major | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Expenditure”) [follow-up to Rees bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Major | Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (Public expenditure review: Overseas Development Agency) [Aid programme, pensions and Diplomatic wing] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Major | Economic policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“LTPE”) [long term public expenditure debate] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 17 Mo | Major | Economic policy: Rees PS letter to No.10 (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 18 Tu | Major | Economic policy: Rees minute to MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 19 We | Major | Economic policy: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (nationalised energy industries) [“increasingly concerned at the Treasury’s attitude”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 19 We | Major | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Public expenditure - maintaining the impetus”) [clear public message needed to put pressure on Ministers to comply] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 19 We | Major | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [press line and MT procedural decision] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Economic policy: Whitelaw letter to John Wakeham MP (“Ministerial Group on public expenditure: MISC 99”) [Conservative backbench reactions to proposals] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Major | Economic policy: Rees PS letter to Fowler PS (“Social Security programme”) [public expenditure review] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Economic policy: Butler minute for Turnbull (MISC 99 “Star Chamber” update) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Economic policy: Howe PS letter to Biffen PS (“Publication of monthly PSBR figures”) [move to focus on public sector rather than central government borrowing] [declassified 2013] |