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1981 Nov 9 - 1983 Apr 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1003
Economic policy (Top Salaries Review Body (TSRB): reports on salaries of senior civil servants, senior members of the armed services and judges; salaries of Members of Parliament) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 204
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81 Nov 10 Tu Major Economic Policy: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Judicial salaries") ["unless there is a significant increase in 1982, we shall find it difficult to get the best Silks to accept appointment"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Nov 11 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Pay Review Bodies") [MT response to Howe proposals "about what the Government's attitude should be to the Pay Review Bodies in the present pay round"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 15 Fr Major Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Pay Review Bodies") [MT/Howe difference of views over need for regular meetings with the Chairmen] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 18 Mo Major Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Lady Young PS ("TSRB: economic evidence") [Top Salaries Review Body: draft submission] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 29 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 letter to Councillor Angela Rumbold (Pay Review Body system) [response to her concerns about the system] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Feb 16 Tu Major Economic Policy: Nott PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body) ["Government... wishes to stress the continuing importance of achieving realistic pay settlements in the public sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 2 Fr Major Economic Policy: Lord Lane letter to MT (Top Salaries Review Body Report: the judiciary) ["my concern for... the preservation of the future quality of the judiciary"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 2 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("TSRB Report") [Top Salaries Review Body: summary & analysis of recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT, Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Howe, Keith Joseph, Nott, Younger, Biffen, Fowler, Baroness Young, Tebbit, Jopling, Hayhoe) [pay issues; Top Salaries Review Body recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 5 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Cabinet, 6 May: TSRB") [Top Salaries Review Body: "size of any abatement to the award, and the timing of the announcement"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 5 We Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("TSRB") ["If the Cabinet decides... to abate the [Top Salaries Review Body's] recommendations and to announce that decision... we shall need to consider how best to handle Lord Plowden"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 5 We Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Timing of annoucement of TSRB decisions") [Top Salaries Review Body; concerns about pre-emptive annoucement having negative effect on schoolteachers'/nurses' arbitration processes] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 6 Th Major Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("TSRB Report No 18") [Top Salaries Review Body: contingency draft briefing for forthcoming pay award announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 7 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (1630Z) (MT, Lord Plowden, Armstrong) ["Government much regretted the need to abate the increases recommended by the [Top Salaries] Review Body"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 13 Th Major Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Questions: Pay") [MT addresses Government response to recommendations of the Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 13 We Major Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Megaw and the future of the Top Salaries Review Body") ["TSRB are already preparing for their reviews for 1983... We need to tell them whether we look to them to report on the pay of the Higher Civil Service"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Lord Plowden) [proposed meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Economic Policy: Howe PS letter to Lady Young PS ("Economic evidence to the TSRB") [request to review draft submission] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Economic Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Annuality and the Review Bodies") [advice against curbing Bodies' practise of annually recommending pay increases, pending a trend away from annual pay increases in the economy generally] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 4 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Mount ("Review Bodies") ["to alert you... to one or two aspects of handling"] [declassified Aug 2013]