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1985 Apr 7 - 1986 May 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1685
Civil Service (Pay and pensions: pay dispute; review of early retirement arrangements) (Part 15)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 405
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86 Feb 18 Tu Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 66 (86) 1st Meeting: Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [negotiating strategy options] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 24 Mo Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Northern Ireland Civil Service: Permanent Secretaries”) [MT rejects proposal for same grades and pay as equivalents in Home Civil Service] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [negotiating strategy] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 17 Th Major Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [prevention of industrial action worth the cost of a higher offer] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 18 Fr Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Service Pay”) [“considerable advantages in an agreed settlement of 6%, as opposed to a disagreed settlement of 5 2/3 per cent” ] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 21 Mo Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [advises going with offer of 6%, given indications Unions will accept, despite initial 17% demand] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 28 Mo Major Civil Service: Peter Kemp minute to Peter Brooke (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [“the object of the exercise - a peaceful settlement albeit at a rate which may appear high in some eyes - looks as though it will be produced”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 30 We Major Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Travelling expenses of spouses of senior Civil Servants”) [MT approves an end to trial monitoring period subject to ongoing review] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 30 We Major Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“Civil Service Pay and Running Costs”) [advised tactics for Cabinet meeting] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu Minor Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal note (Pension implications) [pension arrangements in: civil service and NHS; armed forces] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu Major Civil Service: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service Pay Settlement: implications for the research councils”) [“It is of the utmost importance for science and for our own credibility that we should compensate the Research Councils for the 1986-87 costs of the pay settlement”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th Major Civil Service: Treasury letter to Council of Civil Service Unions (“TSRB 1986”) [Government accepts recommendations for discretionary pay at Grades 2 and 3] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th Major Civil Service: Treasury letter to Principal Establishment Officers (“Pay of the Senior Open Structure in the Civil Service”) [note on revised rates of pay] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to George Younger (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1986”) [“I am mindful that they are employed in areas of great importance for our defence effort”] [declassified 2014]
86 Nov 15 Sa Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service long-term pay arrangements”) [advises proceeding with the data collection which would underpin the Government proposals, in anticipation of their being accepted by the Unions, failing which “all bets would be off”] [declassified 2014]