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PREM19/1441
Defence (Armed Forces' pay: pay review body report; Service doctors' and dentists' pay; local and overseas allowance; London weighting) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 270
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83 May 17 Tu Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay and charges of the Armed Forces) [acceptance of Twelfth Report recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (pay of Service medical and dental officers) [advice to accept Armed Forces Pay Review Body recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jun 29 We Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Armed Forces Pay Review Body - Pay of Medical and Dental Officers") [Lawson "feels that it would be quite wrong to take any decision now"] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jul 27 We Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (pay of Service medical and dental officers) [implementation of Armed Forces Pay Review Body recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jul 29 Fr Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay of Service medical and dental officers) [acceptance of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Sep 16 Fr Major Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Armed Forces Pay Review) [Chair of Review Body raises concerns about press report of pay limit on public expenditure] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 17 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Local Overseas Allowance - Germany") [details of further reductions] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major Defence: Rees minute to MT ("LOA Germany") [Local Overseas Allowance: opposed to Heseltine proposal for reductions] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 23 Mo Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Review Body (London Weighting for the Armed Forces) [acceptance of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Feb 10 Fr Major Defence: Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("LOA in Germany") ["The tone of... [your minute to the Prime Minister] suggests a mechanistic approach to LOA which I really cannot accept"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jun 8 Fr Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Armed Forces Pay Review Body - Thirteenth Report 1984") [Government response to recommendations regarding allowances and charges for food & accommodation] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mo Major Defence: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Armed Forces Pension Scheme") ["You asked me how many officers who failed to reach the target rank and were therefore retired subsequently joined the Civil Service"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major Defence: MT letter to Chief of the Defence Staff (Armed Forces Pay Review Body 1984) ["The fight against inflation is a central part of our economic strategy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay & charges of the Armed Forces from 1 April 1984) [explanation of Government's decision to delay full implemention of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 19 Th Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay of Service medical and dental officers) [recommendations accepted; announcement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 9 Tu Major Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (London Weighting) ["the Government will be implementing the recommended increases from 1 April"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 12 We Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (review of pay for bomb disposal experts) [MT query prompted by press reports; MT considers proposals to downband "absurd"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Armed Forces Pay Review Body") [Chair requests meeting with MT to discuss forthcoming report containing "unwelcome" recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Th Major Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Armed Forces Pay Review Body") [background to problematic report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, David Orr, Peter Matthews) ["Armed Forces Pay Review Body"; Orr "conscious that the recommendations in the Report would create a difficult problem for the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]