From:
R M Hastie-Smith
CONFIDENTIAL
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CABINET OFFICE
70 WHITEHALL
LONDON SWIA 2AS
13 December 1979
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LORD PRIVY SEAL
MR. HURD
P Lever Esq
MR. RIDLEY
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Downing Street West
MR. BLAKER
Paul,
MR. LUCE
MR. MARTEN
All returns (including nil retowns) to Private Office by 4/1/80 Please
J. Banks,
14/12/79
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FUTURE BUSINESS
Ps / Pus
ith under secretanes
All Heads of Departments
The purpose of this letter is to seek your help on a forecast of future business which is likely to come forward from your Department to Cabinet or a Cabinet Ministerial Committee in the period January to April 1980. would be helpful if your forecast could be in the form:-
2.
2..
C.
Subject (with an indication of how certain it is or upon what
circumstances it is dependent).
Month in which it is likely to come forward.
Ministerial Committee involved.
It
Apart from the Defence White Paper which is a regular event during this period, other possible candidates are set out in the enclosure. May I please have your reply by 8 January?
Mr.
Quay will
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now that the leaves
Leuses might come up before April. problem will have developed
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to the stage where the S.efs. will wish to put a paper to the
Cabinet or OD by April. He garrison
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is a subject on which the MOD would tobe the lead. The only other topic of ours which there has been a Cabinet interest in the past is capital punishment: this will not come up the near future if Aiinisters accept the advice that the PUS wants us to give them - no change - present polic
tach a drobtreten. W.Quill 14/12