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1984 Sep 5 - 1984 Oct 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1192
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 28)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 300
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Date Value Title
84 Oct 1 Mo Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [potential difficulties] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tu Major Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure") [draft speaking note and briefing] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tu Major Public spending: Oliver Letwin minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure: DES") [MT anotation: "We cannot add further to the burden"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tu Major Public spending: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Your PES Meeting with Mr Tebbit on 3 October 1984") ["Treasury are asking simply for DTI to get back to baseline"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 3 We Major Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984 (C(84) 29)") [ministerial meetings, speculation about a "Star Chamber"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 3 We Major Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Service Pay and Expenditure Survey in 1985-86 (C(84) 26)") [pay assumption, public spending baseline] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 3 We Major Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Tebbit-Rees-Butler-Turnbull) [DTI spending programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 4 Th Major Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [efforts to reduce spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 5 Fr Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("DTI: Expenditure Programme") [possible savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 5 Fr Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Trade and Industry") [savings in DTI's mainline programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 5 Fr Major Public spending: Rees PS minute to Hurd PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 9 Tu Major Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [budget agreed with Rees] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 10 We Major Public spending: Rees PS minute to Jopling PS ("Report of a Study of ADAS") [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 10 We Major Public spending: Nicholas Owen minute to Andrew Turnbull ("MISC 106: Agriculture and ADAS") [report on ADAS] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 11 Th Major Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Younger PS ("Territorial Blocks") [needs assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 11 Th Major Public spending: MT minute to Norman Tebbit (DTI spending) [position on departmental programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 12 Fr Major Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("MISC 106") [MT anotation: "I wonder if we have not misssed some possible economies"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 12 Fr Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to George Younger ("Territorial Blocks: Needs Assessment") [draft terms of reference] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 12 Fr Major Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Michael Jopling ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014]