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1989 Oct 2 - 1990 May 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3169
Social Services (Uprating of social security benefits, including child support) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 287
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89 Oct 19 Th Major Social services: No.10 minute: Gray to Turnbull ("Social Security uprating statement") [scheduling of announcement] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Oct 24 Tu Major Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security: uprating statement") [comments on minute from Tony Newton: balance of good/bad news in forthcoming annoucement; ongoing freeze on child benefit; statutory sick pay; White Paper on changes to disability benefits] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Nov 1 We Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Community care: preserved income support arrangements") [MT's ongoing concerns about proposed arrangements] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Nov 27 Mo Major Social services: MT letter to Keith Joseph (Child Tax Allowances) ["Your note raises some important issues about family policy and the implications for the tax system"] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Nov 27 Mo Major Social services: Wakeham letter to Lamont ("Low income households: grants for insulation") [presentation of the new scheme] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Dec 8 Fr Major Social services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The National Insurance Fund") [addressing projected deficit] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Dec 12 Tu Major Social services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(A): 13 December") [control of UK fishing capacity; National Insurance Fund; traffic & parking in London] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 26 Fr Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Lone parents") [request from Lamont for clarification of MT statement in Parliament regarding maintenance payments; Newton's proposals & Policy Unit concerns about timescale; MT strongly opposed to need for consultation] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 9 Fr Major Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Lone parents") [update on progress; MT shares the concerns of Policy Unit about lack thereof, and requests a meeting] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 16 Fr Major Social services: Newton briefing for MT (lone parent families) [progress report] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 20 Tu Major Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Mackay, Waddington, Kenneth Baker, Rifkind, Newton, Lamont, Lord Fraser) [lone parent families and child support] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 We Major Social services: Waddington letter to Howe ("Maintenance Enforcement Bill") ["my Bill will help to ensure that fathers... do not allow arrears to build up"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Mar 12 Mo Major Social services: MT letter to Keith Joseph (child tax allowances) [case for reintroduction] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Mar 12 Mo Major Social services: Newton letter to Howe ("Lone parents and maintenance") [outline of short-term measures to be implemented following MT meeting] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Mar 14 We Major Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) ["Income related benefits: capital limits"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Mar 14 We Major Social services: Newton letter to Major ("Income-related benefits: capital limits") [levels & implementation] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Mar 23 Fr Major Social services: Nicholas Scott PS letter to No.10 ("Social Fund: judicial review") [statement to Parliament in response to High Court judgement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Mar 28 We Major Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 ("Income Support Residential Care and Nursing Home Limits") ["following the defeat at Report stage of the NHS and Community Care Bill on the Opposition amendment to increase the amounts of Income Support paid in residential care and nursing homes. A broadly similar amendment has been put down by the Opposition to the Social Security Bill for Report stage tonight. I am writing to let you know how my Secretary of State proposes to respond during the course of the debate and the measures he intends to announce"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Apr 5 Th Minor Social services: No.10 letter to Department of Social Security ("Low Income Statistics") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Apr 18 We Major Social services: Lamont letter to Tony Newton ("Lone parents: access to inland revenue data") [results of trial exercise] [declassified Jul 2017]