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PREM19/1879
Parliament (House of Commons procedure: replies to Select Committee reports; conflict of interests in the House of Commons) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 341
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85 Jun 3 Mo Minor Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 9th to 11th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["... monitoring and control of nationalised industries... introduction of statutory sick pay scheme... defence works in the Falkland Islands... the particular replies... are not, in themselves, newsworthy...] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 17 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Biffen, Wakeham) [Procedure Committee proposals for the conduct of Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 26 We Minor Parliament: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Response to the Fourth Report from the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration") [extending PCS jurisdiction to various non-Departmental Public Bodies] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 5 Fr Minor Parliament: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Government reply to Foreign Affairs Committee's Report on famine in Africa (HC 56)") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 15 Mo Major Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 12th and 13th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["Although the terms of the Treasury minute are in no way controversial, extraneous factors could lead to its publication receiving some attention in the press"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 18 Th Major Parliament: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Merchant shipping: involvement of Parliamentary Private Secretaries") [MT rejects request for Ridley PPS to have access to confidential papers] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Oct 7 Mo Minor Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 15th to 25th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1984-85") ["Even with the interest of the coming debate we doubt whether the Treasury minute will attract much interest"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Oct 11 Fr Minor Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Memorandum on the 8th and 14th Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 1984/85) [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Report on Public Expenditure") ["The draft reply... [emphasises] the importance of service output rather than expenditure as a measure of NHS growth, and... [highlights] the role of efficiency in achieving service improvements"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 28 Th Major Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Follow-up Report on Medical Education") ["... critical of the Government for failing to achieve the changes it had recommended"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Dec 11 We Major Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Lobbyists") ["... motion to confirm and clarify the responsibilities of Members with regard to the registration in the Register of Members' interests, and declaration, of their paid activities as Parliamentary 'advisers' and 'consultants'] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Dec 18 We Major Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Government reply to the Report for House of Lords select committee on overseas trade") ["...causes and implications of the deficit on the... [UK]'s balance of trade in manufactures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Dec 18 We Major Parliament: Biffen letter to Terence Higgins MP (Government reply to the First Report from the Liaison Committee (Session 1984-85) on the Select Committee system) ["... the new Departmentally-related select committees set up in 1979 have now established themselves as a major, successful Parliamentary reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jan 10 Fr Minor Parliament: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("Marine science and technology") [Government response to House of Lord select committee report] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu Major Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (Select Committees) [Nigel Wicks, Robert Armstrong] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu Major Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Procedure Committee Report on Public Bill Procedure") ["(MT) very much agrees with [Biffen]... that the Committee's proposal for a Legislative Business Committee to control time on Government Bills in Committee should be rejected... however, she shares Mr. Jopling's reservations about the Lord Privy Seal's proposals for bringing forward to 50 hours the normal guillotine point in the Standing Committee proceedings. She believes that 50 hours might well look high-handed..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo Minor Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 29th, 30th and 36th - 38th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1984-85") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 27 Th Minor Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the First to Fourth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 28 Fr Minor Parliament: Morrison letter to Biffen ("Debate on draft EC Directive - Powered Industrial Trucks") [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Mar 10 Mo Minor Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Private Secretaries ("Debate on the Motion on the Easter adjournment") ["As usual on these occasions, I am writing to all Private Offices to ask for briefing material that the Leader of the House will need when winding up"] [declassified Jul 2016]