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- 1986 (Creation)
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1 file
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Contains correspondence and figures relating to the formulation of the 1986/7 Observer budget. Blank forms for cost centre managers; schedules comparing the current budget with projected, and later actual, costs for 1985/6 and actual costs for the preceding years; memorandums relating to budget assumptions, printing costs, budget cuts and staffing costs particularly in relation to magazine spending, opinion polls costs in relation to the expected election, a planned office move to Battersea; figures showing the editorial cost per column for the year ended 30 September 1986 and a letter from the Lonrho board approving the submitted budget (October 1986).
Primary Correspondents include: John Nuttall-Smith, David Bishop, Roger Harrison and Jean Atkinson
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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Budget summary information showing individual salaries closed in line with DPA.
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