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LORD MARSHALL OF LEEDS SIR ANTHONY ROYLE KCMG MP MICHAEL SPICER MP THE RT HON THE BARONESS YOUNG

August,

1982

Thank you for your note of 19th August in which you ask me to respond on paper. Here goes: I feel myself it would be invidious for me to suggest names though if pressed I would not find it hard to do so. In any event,

readily

be inferred

from

what

they

can

I say below.

The general point. I was making the other day was really this: I think I am right in saying that not a single one of our colleagues who was made a PPS at the start of this Government has been promoted to the ranks of Minister. This compares with the 4 or S Ministerial promotions out of the 1979 intake into Parliament. This I believe is unfortunate. There are a number of long serving or erstwhile PPSs who are both very able and loyal. It would seem that their enforced silence in Parliament has worked against them. It in effect discriminates against a whole generation. More

philosophy

significantly,

of promotion.

it

calls

At the

into

junior

question

levels

have thought that there would have been a more structure, although of course everyone accepts not everything is totally clear cut. I suspect that there would be benefit everyone knew a little more where they stood, being a PPS was a rung on a ladder as opposed would seem to be at the moment.

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MP.,

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