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From:

R M Hastie-Smith

CONFIDENTIAL

Hel. Hk

CABINET OFFICE

70 WHITEHALL

LONDON SWIA 2AS

13 December 1979

01-xxxxxxxxxxxxx 233 7280

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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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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