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PRIVACY MARKING

la Confidence

DRAFT

MINUTE

To:-

Mr Willby

Pensions Department

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NOT

SENT

Type 1 +

From

Mr McLaren

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

DSR 11

GOVERNORS' PENSION SCHEME

1. M Hall has shown me the papers you recently copied to him on this subject (Church's letter of 25

N October to Peretz, Treasury and Mrs Foley's minute to you of 27 October with your note of 31 October). He has commented "We inch forward".

2. Indeed we do inch forward; or more precisely, the

CSD inches forward. And if this is going to adversely

affect Sir Colin Allan and Mr Smith it will not do, even if CSD plead pressure of other work. They might have thought of that during the years when nothing was done

This department's at all. locus standi in all this is limited to

looking after the general interests of our ex-Governors; yours is the action department. I should be most grateful therefore if you would make sawang representations to CSD to ensure only that the Scheme is laid by the

without fail.

end of November. It was as long ago as 18 May that Mr Burr wrote to Mr Towers in GSD in strong terms about four

Now

years of delay. There should be no excuse for dragging matters out into 1979 at the expense of Sir Colin Allen

and Mr. Smith.

~ Willly will swel feel justifiably offended if

we think it necessary to say this to lun?

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the House this

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to be kept

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