Letter - Starting the Defence and Scottish Secretaries' Salaries [1986-01-10]
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Title
Letter - Starting the Defence and Scottish Secretaries' Salaries [1986-01-10]
Subject
Ministerial Appointments
Description
Letter from Nigel Wicks to Sir Peter Middleton stating that Queen Elizabeth II had approved the appointments of George Younger as Secretary of State for Defence and Malcolm Rifkind as Secretary of State for Scotland and so their salaries should start on January 10, 1986.
Creator
Nigel Wicks (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister)
Source
PREM 5/606/1
Date
1986-01-10
Contributor
Jason Loch
Letter Item Type Metadata
Transcript
Sir Peter Middleton
H M Treasury
The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments which will date from 10 January, 1986.
| Secretary of State for Defence | The Right Honourable George Kenneth Hotson Younger, TD, DL, MP £32,208 |
| Secretary of State for Scotland | Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, Esquire, MP £32,208 |
(Sgd.) NW
(Nigel Wicks)
10 January 1986
Signatures
Nigel Wicks (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister)
Recipient(s)
Sir Peter Middleton (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury)
Ornamentation
Document is typewritten.
Files
Citation
Nigel Wicks (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister), “Letter - Starting the Defence and Scottish Secretaries' Salaries [1986-01-10],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/192.