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Subject: Economic policy - theory and process. Document type: Declassified documents.

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PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: John Moore PS letter No.10 (“ICI Case”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 briefing cards for MT ("Bilateral with President Reagan") [US budget deficit, new GATT round, unitary tax] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office list of briefs for MT ("Bonn Economic Summit 2-4 May 1985") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: DTI brief ("Bonn Economic Summit: 2-4 May 1985. GATT Work Programme") [major items on the programme include safeguards, agriculture, services, tropical products, tariff escalation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("1985 CAP Price Fixing") [Howe's comments on German position, points he suggests to be raised with Kohl] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [Home Office suggestion re: line to take on drugs problem] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [protectionism, international monetary conference, new GATT round, Strategic Defence Initiative] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan bilateral) [international monetary conference, exchange rates, new GATT round, Japan, political declaration, Strategic Defence Initiative, UN anniversary] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 draft declaration ("Political Declaration on the 40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") ["we dedicate ourselves and our countries anew to the creation of a world in which all peoples enjoy the blessings of peace, of justice, and of freedom"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Ministers' Meeting) [Central America, drugs, political declaration, economic issues, press briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Clark bilateral) [VE day celebrations, Southern Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, UNESCO, European Community] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Abe bilateral) [East-West relations in the Asian context, international trading system] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Craxi) [future of the European Community, Economic Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary - heads of government) [Middle East, anniversary of WWII, economic recovery, trade] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary) [trade and monetary policy, aid for Africa] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-McFarlane: "IDU Meeting in Washington") [MT "was clearly taken aback to hear that the President knew nothing of the meeting and commented that a certain amount of 'leverage' appeared to be going on"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to Robert Armstrong ("New GATT Round: Agriculture") [EC statement - a hard-fought compromise, best avoid all reference to agriculture in G7 economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [review body reports, local government finance, gilts prospectus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Laker: attempted settlement”) [“BA are required to report progress to the US judge on 8 May”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 briefing cards for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Nakasone") [trade imbalance, liberalisation of financial markets] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 communiqué draft ("The Bonn Economic Declaration: Towards Sustained Growth and Higher Employment") ["Latest draft"; 4 May, version 7] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Bernard Ingham briefing for MT ("BBC Radio Four 'World This Weekend'") [Chequers interview - "the present criticism of the Government is confused"; show that you have a clear direction, vigour] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Summit Press Conference") ["This has been a peculiar summit"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand bilateral) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Channel link, European fighter aircraft, European Community, new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Nakasone bilateral) [Strategic Defence Initiative, East/West relations, Korea, Taiwan, Bosphorus Bridge] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary session) [Political Declaration: environment, new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: French Reactions") ["the verdicts on Mitterrand's performance have been mixed"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japanese Views on the Bonn Summit") [Japanese are glad protracted discussion on GATT "prevented much discussion of 'the Japan Problem'"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT draft Commons statement ("Bonn Economic Summit: Parliamentary Statement") [MT deciding to include more material from economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell letter to German Ambassador to the UK (Helmut Kohl speech at Bergen-Belsen) [MT "pleased to have the opportunity to read the full text of this"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (Kohl Bundestag speech on Bonn Economic Summit final declaration) [political declaration; SDI; drug problem] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [economy, internal affairs, public support for the Government, foreign affairs, armed forces, human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Privatisation Programme") ["attached paper sets out the present position on existing candidates and proposes some priorities for the remainder of this Parliament"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Kuala Lumpur letter to No.10 (economic planning charts) [copies requested by MT during her visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Press Office minute to MT (briefing for interview with Chinese journalists) [questions on three areas: international situation, economic and political scene in the UK, Sino-British relations] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit: German Press Reaction") ["finds some good in the summit conclusions but, without exception, finds the balance disappointing"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: Further French Reactions Summary") ["the implications of what happened in Bonn for Europe and for Franco-German relations are attracting increasing attention"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to UKA Bonn (thanks for hospitality) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell to Bernard Ingham (call from Kohl's office) [Germans "in a bit of a flap" after prematurely announcing MT-Kohl meeting at Chequers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 briefing for MT ('Supplementaries') [economy, environment, Africa, foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Helmut Kohl (thank you for Summit arrangements) ["a pity that not all of us were able to agree on setting a target date" for new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest for MT) [gas privatisation, VE Day, Reagan in Europe, GLC/MCC abolition, NUM trial, NACODS overtime ban, Welfare State cabinet, Scottish Conservatives] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Fowler memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 12 (Social Security Review: Pensions) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher letter to Robert Litherland (“Manchester Steel”) [objective “to achieve further restructuring in the industry which will bring about improved prospects for profitability and viability”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher letter to Flesher (Manchester Steel) [“the Government could not stand in the way of any realistic bid from the private sector”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to MT (“Disclosure & Gilts”) [legal liabilities & advance knowledge of tax changes] [released 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher letter to Robert Litherland MP (“Manchester Steel”) [“profitability and viability”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 1532 to FCO (1550Z) (“Visit to Washington of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry”) [Tebbit pressed “the need for the Americans not to take out on others the consequences of domestic policies which have led to the high budget deficit, the high dollar and vast trade deficit”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Enlarged Community") [policy paper requested by MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: Caroline Ryder minute to Charles Powell ("Premier Zhao Ziyang") [arrangements for farewell call] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to the Arthur Seldon (split with Milton Friedman over the status of macroeconomics) ["I believe a good and detailed critical analysis of macroeconomics would be very desirable"]
PDF 85 May 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Tebbit minute to MT (“Visit to the United States 7-11 May”) [“in trade and the related financial policies the Administration is developing clearer ideas of where it wants to go, but is unsure how to get there”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) ["This political declaration is a source of great encouragement to me and the Korean people in our continued effort for the peaceful unification through direct dialogue between the north and the south"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor and the Governor”) [disclosure and gilts, inquiry into JMB, foreign currency borrowing, Mercury, public expenditure priorities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Economic and Social Policy presentation) [7th meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sport: Addison minute to MT (“Proposed Eurodome stadium in the London Docklands”) [“It will be for the Docklands Development Corporation to consider their merits in the first instance”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor of the Falklands telegram to FCO ("Mr Renton's Meeting with Councillors: 16 May") [fisheries; Mount Pleasant Airport; developmental strategy; land sub-division; oil] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (“Disclosure & Gilts”) [Bank of England concerns that tax changes could undermine funding programme via disclosure requirements] [released 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Inland Revenue and the Keith Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Sport: Addison minute to Redwood (“Lord Bruce and the ‘Eurodome’ stadium”) [Bruce seeks discussion on proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on airports policy”) [“encouraging enterprise and efficiency… [while recognising] continuing role of Government as regulator and referee”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: March-June”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [summary of points made in letters on Bonn Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: The Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors letter to Lawson (Treasury figures on infrastructure expenditure and employment effects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Howe minute to MT (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [Union seeking assurances in light of new computerised system requiring less staff ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [Economic summit, European fighter aircraft, Polish Church Agricultural Scheme, EC/Turkey association agreement, India/Pakistan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to General Ershad (Bonn Economic Summit) ["the problems of developing countries... were very much in our minds during the Summit"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to UN Secretary-General (Bonn Economic Summit) ["the main contribution we as industrialised countries could make to world prosperity was to promote sustained growth and higher employment in our own economies"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Julio Maria Sanguinette (Bonn Economic Summit) [attendees "recognised and agreed that a lasting solution" to the problem of Latin American debt "can only be achieved if all those involved continue in their constructive co-operation"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“It is vital that we demonstrate our commitment to the economic recovery of the area”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“British Aerospace sale”) [disclosure requirements in relation to sale of shares] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lawson minute to Howe (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [“we should not be seen to be giving way in the face of industrial threats in this particular case”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to MT (“Disclosure & Gilts”) [solution] [released 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“UK/US Civil Aviation: Bermuda 2”) [“objectives and negotiating strategy”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Weinberger) [taxation, defence budget, SDI, arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Frank Field MP) [MT said that “ASW was a private company and there could be no question of Government instruction on the way it conducted its business”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO to No.10 ("Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang, 2-8 June 1985") [briefings: objectives on Hong Kong, relationship with Zhao, bilateral relations, trade relations] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Frank Field MP) [future of Manchester Steel’s Bidston works] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“the expenditure does not look well-based”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“The Canadian Budget”) [“seen as generally good for the business community, hard on middle income consumers and less tough than it might have been on the deficit”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 May 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (the latest Monetary Bulletin: “extremely critical of current system of monetary control”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment note to No.10 (“Liverpool Garden Festival”) [press coverage of reopening] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute for No.10 (“Competition Policy: Presentation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [no to proposal: “would put further pressure on LA capital expenditure”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment/Economic Policy: Redwood minute to Addison ("The Dornbusch Lecture") [Rudi Dornbusch's view of government fiscal and monetary policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang: 2-8 June 1985") [briefs prepared by FCO] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell note to Percy Cradock (MT speech to Zhao dinner) [edited version of FCO draft] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Employment Effects of Increases in Infrastructure Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Airports decisions and White Paper”) [statement to Parliament & Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [negotiations and action postponed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Money Policy and the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Chinese Prime Minister's Visit") [Hong Kong, trade, international issues] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 14 (Legislative Programme 1985-86) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS (Birmingham Convention Centre) [MT has asked “whether the project could be recast to produce more private sector involvement”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [monetary policy, long-term unemployment, benefit reviews] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Late Payment of VAT and Other Taxes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 1757 to FCO (2104Z) (“Laker settlement negotiations”) [Laker’s demands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Second round of talks with Zhao Ziyang") [issue of soft loans is tricky - "it is open to you to overrule your colleagues"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: DTI Press Office minute (“Draft PPI Press Notice for May”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Airports policy: Decision letters and White Paper) [Stansted and Heathrow planning applications] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT letter to Walters (inflation and monetary control) [MT: “I am very worried about M3, the Bill mountain, the rate of inflation and rising property prices”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell (Premier Zhao's Visit) [speech on Chinese foreign policy: remarks on Hong Kong, Chinese revolution] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Walters letter to MT (“Debt and the IMF”) [paper by Robert Vobel] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Robin Harris minute to Sherbourne (“Long-term themes for speeches”) [“a cock-shy of themes”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Debt: Argentina and Peru”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Inland Revenue letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Keith Report implementation”) [proposals affecting Inland Revenue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Press Office minute to Walters (“Interview with Channel 4 TV”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: Lord Young notes on conversation (conversations with Zhao, Tian) [soft loans, defence sales, education, economy] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings: Inter-Linked Issues”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to Treasury (“Argentina”) [a bridge facility has been agreed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker: attempted settlement”) [“sooner we can wind up the civil action… the better, not least for the civil aviation relationship between [UK & US]”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher PS letter to No.10 (future of Manchester Steel) [MT unhappy with draft reply to Frank Field MP] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to John Wakeham PS (“Debate on airports policy, Monday 17 June”) [text of the motion, early debate in the Lords] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Laker settlement offer) [“a good outcome”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting with President of Mexico”) [FCO briefing, card prompts for meeting itself] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chairman of British Airports letter to MT (response to Airports Policy White Paper) [‘Stansted go-ahead “excellent news for air transport industry”’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [Japan’s intention to hold a meeting of Industry Ministers in Tokyo] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: MT letter to Frank Field MP (closure of Manchester Steel) [“it is for the industry - whether steel producers or customers - to make proposals for ASW to consider on their commercial merits”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Edwards ("Circular on Development and Employment") ["The main purpose of this circular is to reiterate clearly that the planning system should not place unjustified obstacles in the way of development"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: MT letter to Frank Field MP (future of Manchester Steel) [“I realise that this is a very worrying time for the employees”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chief Whip APS letter to Cabinet Office (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [legal actions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Paper on Monetary Policy”) [briefing for MT: inflation, monetary control, international money markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Seminar on Monetary Policy”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Seminar on Monetary Policy”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to Turnbull (“Monetary Policy”) [brief for meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Willetts minute to MT (“Monetary Policy”) [inflation prospects, alternatives to over-funding, the money markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Governor, Middleton, Burns et al) [MT worries over conduct of monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Deregulation") [preparation of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to MT (“CGT Exemption of Gilts & Qualifying Corporate Bonds”) [legal changes] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker minute to Alison (issues affecting the industry) [treatment of working miners, NCB action, NCB-NACODS agreement] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Deregulation") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Deregulation") [proposed creation of a central task force within government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Deregulation: Minute dated 26 June from the Minister Without Portfolio and the draft of the Deregulation White Paper") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Deregulation") [concerns that White Paper will be viewed as "weak" but advises publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Deregulation") [draft White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [EC/US relations; future of the EC; terrorism & hijacking; internal market; technological cooperation; football disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jun 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Milan European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 85 Jul 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Jenkin-Tebbit-King-Biffen-Gowrie-Young-Wakeham-Clarke-Cabinet Secretary-Ibbs & others) ["Deregulation"; draft White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (briefing for MT: papers for the Cabinet discussion of public expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General’s Legal Secretary letter to No.10 (Nationalisation Case before the Human Rights Commision in Strasbourg) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“BA: Laker litigation”) [“BA have now worked out a possible way round the problem which might either bring Laker to settle, or at least isolate him”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [economy, workers' occupation of the Ford factory, internal affairs, human rights, Falkland Islands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Timothy Raison PS minute to No.10 (“Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board: Annual Report and Accounts 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Lifting the Burden") ["This is not the best White Paper ever produced, but...now seems broadly acceptable"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Lifting the Burden") [amended White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: Sean Hughes letter to MT (Plessey plant closure in constituency) [“My constituency is becoming one of the unemployment black spots in the country”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“there is much to be said in favour of a Birmingham Convention Centre if the funding problem can be overcome”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Senate Arms Control Group) [arms control, US-Soviet Summit, East-West relations, terrorism, Middle East, EC, economy, Japan, security] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Young PS ("Deregulation White Paper: Lifting the Burden") [MT approves publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 17 (Economic Prospects) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 18 (1985 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lewis Moss letter to MT (“The Royal Docks”) [“The practicality of servicing the total Royals Development has to be based on the assumption of our ownership of the Albert and King George V areas”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [Birmingham City Council “seeking ways in which the public expenditure consequences of the project could be minimised”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young PS letter to No.10 ("De-Regulation White Paper: Lifting the Burden") [draft Parliamentary statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (“State of the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Situation & Public Expenditure 1986-87 & 1988-89, Review of Student Support) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Inland Revenue Practices”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: NUCAS minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [Brecon by-election, economic situation, Executive Committee elections, agent’s salary, Property Review Committee report, rules, Federation of Conservative Students, party conference] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Grey Gowrie letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“I hope we can give Birmingham the support necessary to ensure that their application for ERDF grant succeeds”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 note to MT (House of Commons statement on Deregulation White Paper) [Ingham concerned at choice of Ray Whitney MP to give statement; MT: "We can't let [him] do it...He won't have a chance"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 note to MT (House of Commons statement on Deregulation White Paper) [John Moore MP to deliver statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Pym (“The Cost of Unemployment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS minute to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [line for Ministers to take on proposed settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Laker litigation) [settlement of the Laker case a first step toward BA privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [inquiry into JMB, cuts in oil production] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 19 (Top Salaries Review Body: Report No 22) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“I am unhappy about overt government support for a scheme where the economic benefits are uncertain”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Local Authority capital expenditure 1986/7 - treatment of capital receipts”) [MT “made clear that there could be no question of depriving local authorities of the right to spend over time the full amount of those receipts which they have already generated”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: LDCC letter to MT (LDDC annual report and accounts) [“we cannot offer certainty of ultimate ownership or long leasehold to prospective investors since we are currently unable to agree acquisition terms for the Port of London Authority land which satisfy the Treasury”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Deregulation - lifting the burden”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Jenkin letter to Rees (“LDDC: Royal Docks”) [vital “to ensure that early control of the site passes to the LDDC in order to build on the success already achieved by the LDDC and regenerate the area”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to Ingham (“Ministerial Group on the Presentation of Economic and Social Policy: the Government&rsquo:s Public Expenditure Record”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“if the project is to be included in the current ERDF round we must confirm our support for Birmingham’s application next week”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to Brittan PS (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [MT “commented that it would not make sense to open up the market… but continue to insist that they use a British satellite”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: June-September”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2157 to FCO (0017Z) (“Mr. Volcker’s Testimony on Monetary Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sean Hughes MP) [factory closures and government response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong to UKE Tokyo (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [dates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“SDP Proposals for Tax Reform”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sean Hughes MP, John Butcher) [factory closures and government response] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General’s Legal Secretary letter to No.10 (“Aircraft and Shipbuilding Nationalisation: European Convention of Human Rights”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Norman Fowler letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [support for Birmingham ERDF grant application] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Lewis Moss notes (meeting with MT on rates) [“INACTION IS NOT NOW AN OPTION”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Howe (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [next steps] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees minute to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“in view of your enthusiasm I will not stand in the way of your supporting Birmingham’s application for ERDF money”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Jenkin letter to Rees (“LDDC: Royal Docks”) [“in order to protect public funds, we cannot agree to the lease negotiated between PLA and LDDC”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: MT letter to LDDC (LDDC annual report and accounts) [has asked Jenkin and Rees to examine issue of Port of London Authority land lease] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris briefing to FCO ("The French Prime Minister's visit to London") [meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Pym letter for Lawson (economic situation and employment issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Ridley minute to Jenkin (“LDDC: Royal Docks”) [“It would destroy the whole credibility of our approach if we attempted to put pressure on the PLA to renegotiate the terms of the lease”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy PS letter to No.10 (Secretary of State’s alleged speech on Third World debts) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam to FCO (“Mr Kinnock’s Visit”) [conversation with Nyerere: South Africa, African economic crisis, EC, Nyerere’s future] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("NEDO Publication: Practical Aspects of a New Financial Intermediary") [National Economic Development Office: background note for PMQ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Butcher letter to Sean Hughes (situation in Knowsley) [Industry Act assistance, council initiatives and grant schemes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Economic Performance 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher letter to Sean Hughes MP (Government schemes for employment and training in the Knowsley area) [Industry Act assistance, council initiatives and grant schemes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“The Government’s record since 1979” & “Public Expenditure & ‘Cuts’”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (“end of term” message on current economic situation) [“steady expansion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System Volcker) [US deficit, international debt, aircraft for Argentina, banking in the US, Japan, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT Press conference (visit to the US: meetings with the officials) [arms control, Strategic Defence Initiative, South Africa, Middle East, economy, terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Under Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs letter to Lawson (speech material on competition policy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Peru: UKE Lima telegram to FCO ("President Garcia's Inauguration Speech") ["A tough and uncompromising speech"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation ("Meeting with Monsieur Fabius: 1 August 1985") [Charles Powell, Jacques Viot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson letter for Under Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs (speech material on competition policy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Ridley minute to Rees (“LDDC: Royal Docks”) [discrepancies in costings for scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (meeting with James Hill MP on Southampton Docks) [deregulation in freeports, VAT, National Dock Labour Scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing (meeting with James Hill on Southampton Docks) [deregulation in freeports, VAT, National Dock Labour Scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Turnbull note to MT (Royal Docks lease) [proposed PLA deficit grant] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Wybrew minute to MT (“London Docklands Development - Lease for Royal Docks”) [should “let the existing lease between the LDDC and the PLA stand”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with M. Fabius") [arrangements; press conference; social/economic matters; French elections; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Falklands; Defence; international debt; Soviet Union; trade; terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for No.10 ("French Prime Minister's visit to London: Argentina") [Falklands; social/economic matters; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Defence; international debt; Soviet Union; terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for No.10 ("The French Prime Minister's visit to London on 1 August") [arrangements; French elections; Falklands; social/economic matters; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Defence; international monetary reform/trade; Soviet Union] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General’s Legal Secretary letter to No.10 (aircraft and shipbuilding nationalisation: European Convention of Human Rights) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cabinet Office briefing (“London Dockland Development Corporation (supplementary brief)”) [“Ministers have already decided that there should be no further operating subsidies to the PLA”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: LDCC letter to MT (LDDC annual report and accounts) [determined to maintain pace of regeneration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Fabius) [social/economic matters; French elections; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Falklands; Defence; international debt; Japan; Gorbachev's visit to France; China] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Winterton MP letter for Lawson (economic and employment situation in the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Central Statistical Office minute to No.10 ("Advance release of Index of Production data") [MT approves addition to circulation list] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Ingham minute for MT (“Presentation&rdquo) [thoughts at tne end of a rather difficult political year] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Late Payment of VAT”) [“securing public acceptance”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Flesher (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [dates & arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“FCO communications”) [“Treasury and FCO officials have reached a satisfactory agreement which the CSU have now accepted”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury internal minute to Chancellor of the Exchquer (“Profit Sharing, Co-operatives, Two-tier Wages and Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Williams Davis paper for MT (media charges against her) [suggested rejoinders] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Treasury record of conversation (trade and economic issues) [Geoffrey Littler, Japanese Ambassador: Western concerns about capital inflow/outflow imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: John Moore letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86 and 1986-87") [Building Societies and Banking Bills] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor (“National Institute Economic Review for August”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [settlement “will dispose of one of the major legal problems which have been delaying privatisation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit PS letter to Cabinet Office ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [amendments to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [circulation of revised drafts for comment] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [South Africa, DTI inquiry into JMB and Ansbacher, EMS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nick Ridley (“Privatisation programme”) [timing of BA sale, announcement that sale will go ahead in 1986] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer APS letter to No.10 (“Press Advertisment: Keith Package”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General’s Legal Secretary letter to No.10 (nationalisation cases in European Court of Human Rights) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("NEDC Membership") [National Economic Development Council: Lawson invitation to Kenneth Baker to make up the five-Minister Governnment representation; "a waste of time"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2542 to FCO (2045Z) (“US-South Africa”) [Reagan signs executive order introducing sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (membership of Cabinet Committees) [effect of recent Ministerial changes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Financial Secretary’s membership of Queen’s Speeches and Future Legislation Committee”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Responsibilities of Treasury Ministers") [following reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 2577 to FCO (2000Z) (“Minister (Economic’s) Meeting with Chairman Volcker”) [international debt, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [coal, G5 and dollar, running costs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw PS minute to No.10 ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament 1985") [revised schedule of legislative programme; drafts of speeches] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood article (“Big Bang”) [powerful forces reshaping financial industry] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“UK/US aviation: future strategy”) [how to make progress over anti-trust, post-Laker settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BA pay”) [Chief Executive says he is “under exceptionally heavy pressure to open pay negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong to Humphrey Maud ("Bonn Economic Summit: African Expert Group") [recommendation should be put to Heads of Government for early publication of report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to Nick Ridley (BA pay proposals) [“an offer of 10% to BA engineers would seriously undermine attempts to moderate public pay sector increases”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (G7) Economy: Announcement of [G5] Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors (the Plaza Agreement)
PDF 85 Sep 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1986 Budget”) [the timing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“US/UK Aviation: Future Strategy”) [“our hand is extremely weak”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Paul Channon’s PS minute for Powell (“Policy towards South Africa”) [follow up to Chequers seminar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan letter to CBI President (apartheid, sanctions and the role of British business) [pleased broadly in line with HMG] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the public expenditure survey] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Harry Oppenheimer) [situation in South Africa; its future] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Howe (“US/UK Aviation: Future Strategy”) [“the antitrust issue must be on the agenda; otherwise a move towards a more liberal regime would merely increase the risk of new disputes like Laker”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [cover letter & briefing paper: "Sterling and the European Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Should we join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism") ["sceptical of the Treasury's case"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("EMS") [European Monetary System: arguments against UK joining] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Sterling and the European Exchange Rate Mechanism") [papers; summary of Treasury position; advice on how to handle the meeting and its outcome] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Exchange Rate Mechanism") [advice on temporary withdrawal from ERM as a contingency measure] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 22 (The Queen’s Speeches on the Prorogration of Parliament and the Opening of Parliament) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Middleton, Robin Leigh Pemberton, Sir Terence Burns, Professor Brian Griffiths & others) ["European Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Flesher minute to Treasury (draft to James Hill on freeports) [VAT arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Flesher minute to Treasury (draft to James Hill on freeports) [VAT arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: MT letter to James Hill (VAT in free zones) [“the Government considers that the VAT treatment of supplies within zones should be consistent with that of supplies in the domestic market”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: MT letter to James Hill (VAT in free zones) [“the Government considers that the VAT treatment of supplies within zones should be consistent with that of supplies in the domestic market”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: David Hart draft for MT conference speech (“Britain Today”) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Take-over Panel”) [keep on a non-statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: MacGregor memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 23 (1985 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes (conference speech) [handwritten] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [handwritten notes] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [typed version of handwritten text, amended] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Chris Patten minute (“Notes Towards a Speech Skeleton”) [“The Next Ten Years”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Deregulation, City Action Teams, and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Kohl) [Charles Powell highlights passages for MT on economic Summit Seven lunch; arms control; SDI research; discussion of MT dismay over Kohl's failure to observe "special confidence" in regard to draft treaty on PoCo and security matters; UK/FRG relationship; Luxembourg Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 28th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen s Speech) [spending bilaterals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (meeting with the Chancellor before CHOGM) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Take-over Panel”) [at least create contingency plan for statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lynda Chalker letter to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [objectives: privatisation of BAA and conversion of local authority airports into companies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Draft 1”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Financial Services Bill: International Reciprocity”) [proposes clause to deny access to UK market to firms from countries not granting it to UK firms] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Ken Clarke (BA pay proposals) [“BA will not have an easy ride in attempting to restructure the engineering grades”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO(“Letter from President Nyerere to the Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Deregulation, City Action Teams, and Tourism) [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Exchange Rate Mechanism") [draft Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Wednesday lunchtime draft”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Debate on the Address") [Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament: proposed topics for MT speech for the Debate] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“basic reservations about the graduate tax proposal which runs into many of the disadvantages of a student loan scheme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [MISC 111, banking supervision, exchange rate mechanism, Green Paper on taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Industrial action by CPSA at Companies Registration Office”) [“a firm stand is needed, especially in view of the programme of improvements in efficiency over the next several years”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Young PS ("Deregulation, City Action Teams and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985) [request for approval] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note for MT (presentation of macro-economic policy) [“unhelpful article” in FT shows why Chancellor concerned] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“a settlement at the level of the opening offer would be unhelpful for other public trading sector negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Treasury ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: MT request for Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 29th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen’s Speech) [Tottenham riot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute (“World Economic Prospects: Autumn 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan letter to Howe (“South Africa; EC Code of Conduct”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT statement (introductory remarks on the world political scene) [global security, arms control, South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 6 to UKDEL Nassau (2030Z) (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Your Time”) [“suggests a framework within which you might wish to allocate your time”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Note on sanctions against South Africa (“Commonwealth Declaration of Opposition to Apartheid”) [comparison of US, British and Canadian actions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1058Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") ["They agreed about the need to improve U.S.-Soviet relations and the international situation as a whole"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Takeover Panel”) [reserve powers would undermine existing panel] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Younger letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“your proposed solution risks causing uncertainty among potential investors in relation to the BAA prospectus”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM draft communique (“South Africa. The Commonwealth Accord”) [“apartheid must be dismantled now if a greater tragedy is to be averted”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: CHOGM Secretary minute (draft communique) [disarmament, small states, Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 24 (The Queen’s Speeches on the Prorogration of Parliament and the Opening of the New Session) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM statement (“The Nassau Communique”) [commitments and resolutions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [cover note only: McFarlane said US working on arms control counterproposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT briefing cards (meeting with Reagan) [Achille Lauro, Gorbachev/arms control, UN speech, South Africa, SDI, Middle East, MSE, MBFR, Ireland, trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: McFarlane message to No.10 (MT-Reagan meeting) [two new agenda items] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [banking supervision,TSRB, fiscal adjustment and the Autumn Statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fabius criticises the UK") [TV debate with Chirac: "everything you propose... has just been tried in Great Britain"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fabius criticises the UK") [options on how to react to comments made in TV debate with Chirac] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985) [copies and guidance for circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November 1985”) [draft list of briefs for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“National Savings: Indexed-Income Bond”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“reservations about the functions which you envisage for the CAA”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Lord Young PS (“Ministerial Group on Deregulation”) [proposed membership] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Lynda Chalker (“Economic regulation of airports”) [CAA powers and responsibilities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Sir Nicholas Goodison letter to MT (Financial Services Bill) [need to prosecute financial fraud more vigorously] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Conservative Political Centre pamphlet (“No Turning Back”) [“The Conservative Party is warned against complacency”] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 3031 to FCO (2100Z) (“Volcker’s Visit to Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [critical points made to MT; she wants them discussed with Hurd and Wakeham] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“CAA should be the prime regulators of all core activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") [Banking Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham letter to Home Office (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [Speaking Note for circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters) [Walters: "thought policy was if anything a little tight, rather than loose"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy minute for MT (his conversation with Sir Peter Emery: Nigerian debts) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF to FCO (“IMF: Problem Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [update on backbench misgivings - Graham Bright] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: Q&A] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Briefing on Queen’s Speech (subject notes) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [enterprise and employment, handling of Cabinet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 26 (Public Expenditure Survey 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Kenneth Clarke) [“Enterprise and Employment”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [pleased that “the CAA’s powers will be directed at unreasonable discrimination against any class of airport user”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) Conservatism: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (help with Lord Mayor’s Banquet speech) [“It truly makes a tremendous difference”]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“ERM”) [meeting with Lawson: European Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: cover letter & Lawson paper arguing case for joining ERM] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Lloyds”) [Hay-Davison resigns as chairman] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Takeover Panel”) [not wholly convinced by his arguments but “obviously for you to judge”] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, Lloyd’s and the City] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Brittan minute for MT (“Nigeria: Proposed Oil-Debt Agreement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Training Provided by the Armed Services”) [MT keen to cite its wider social and economic value] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, international finance scene] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson minute for Howe (his meeting with Nigerian Financial Minister) [pressing Nigeria to a deal with the IMF] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for Lawson (“Nigeria: Your Meeting with the Finance Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Fraud’) [seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Junk Bonds”) [to finance takeovers; MT seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT letter to Sir Nicholas Goodison (Financial Services Bill) [agrees his stress on fraud; lists action in train] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Hobson note for Griffiths (‘Fraud’) [partial typology of financial fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove note for MT (“Junk Bonds”) [Griffiths & Bank of England notes also] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Application of US anti-trust law to international civil aviation”) [“I intend to resume discussion with the Americans about the application of competition rules to civil aviation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Top Salaries Review Body") [opposes Lawson proposal to abolish TSRB] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Anglo-German summit, 27 November: Five Wise Men’s report on the FRG economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Fowler memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 27 (Review of Social Security: Final Decisions) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Top Salaries Review Body") [endorses Lawson proposal to abolish TSRB] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: British Telecom letter to Cabinet Office (“1986 Tokyo Ecpnomic Summit: Video Conferencing”) [Ingham sees value for press briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (meetings of officialls on the next Economic Summit: drugs, terrorism, sub-Saharan Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Banking White Paper, monetary cooperation, gas privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [“Plenary session of the Anglo-German summit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: CAP reform”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan minute to MT (“Application of US anti-trust law to international civil aviation”) [“the proposed flotation in the United States is likely to make BA an easy target for American contingency fee lawyers”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Future of the Top Salaries Review Body") [supports Policy Unit's proposed alternative to Lawson's approach; MT not convinced] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Future of the Top Salaries Review Body") [summary of various views; Lawson's proposals & their disadvantages] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“European Council”) [includes speaking notes, documents from presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (“Mr. Arthur Burns”) [MT “very concerned about the size of the US budget deficit”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 briefing (“Mr. Arthur Burns”) [MT “very concerned about the size of the US budget deficit”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MacGregor and Richard Luce letter to MT (“Consultancy, Inspection and Review Services in Government Departments: Implementation Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [European Council, pensions, personal taxation, Banking White Paper] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Chancellor of the Exchequer") ["Nigel Lawson would like a private chat"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Baker letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [“aim should be to ensure that any… regulations are strictly necessary”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Walker letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hurd letter to Lord Young (concordat on inter-departmental arrangements on deregulation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walters minute for No.10 (present fiscal and monetary conditions) [markets see fiscal policy as “suspiciously loose”; monetary conditions “clearly rather tight”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Brittan letter to Lord Young (new arrangements for implementing the deregulation initiative) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ray Whitney letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [still sounds complacent; MT disagrees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan-Mayhew minute for MT (‘Fraud’) [policies & institutions to combat] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4324 to FCO (2023Z) (“ECOFIN Council: 9 December 1985) [Annual Economic Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Michael Jopling letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for Norgrove (“Financial Services Bill: Indemnity for designated agencies”) [Brittan & Hailsham at odds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Managing Director’s One Day Visit to London - 3 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Follow-up to the European Council: possible statement on Geneva Summit & East/West”) [No.10 welcomes decision not to issue statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Financial Services Bill: Civil Liability of Designated Agencies & Competent Authorities”) [“case finely balanced”, embarrassing after JMB, be prepared to drop immunity clauses] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Dinner on Sunday”) [briefing from Norgrove & Griffiths] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“likely to form a substantial category of claimant”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [Parliamentary sub-committee unprecedented request for Cabinet paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to Brittan (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (‘Fraud’) [ministerial meeting tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Roskill Report’) [summary & comment] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [appointments for the Court of the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (‘Fraud’) [MT, Brittan, Havers] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Conservative MPs (Financial Services Bill) [published today - more effective system of regulation] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Law Officers’s Legal Secretary letter to Norgrove (‘Fraud’) [case conference notes on Lloyds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MacGregor minute for Biffen (“Using Private Enterprise in Government Departments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: John MacGregor letter to Lord Chancellor (“TSRB Evidence: Judicial Salaries”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Patrick Mayhew minute to MT (Lloyds & Johnson Matthey) [state of investigations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [MT wants close interdepartmental cooperation with Middleton group on fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Powell minute for MT (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [“not really worth it for one day”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [HMT paper on possible implications for UK] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lord Chancellor letter to John MacGregor (“Evidence to the TSRB”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1986 Budget”) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Home Office briefing for MT (“Roskill Report”s) [Home Secretary has not yet considered report] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Capital Expenditure Contracts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [brief for meeting; Home Office seem "a bit behind the game"] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BAA pay”) [“prospects of privatisations together with BAA’s increased profitability have raised expectations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Airports Bill”) [pressure from backbenchers for compulsory privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Roskill, Lord Benson, Hurd, Hailsham, Brittan, Havers, Mayhew) [Roskill Report] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 minute to FCO (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [MT’s attendance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute (“Budget Preparations: Private Office Guidelines”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Hurd minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [detailed assessment] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Lloyd’s and the Financial Services Bill”) [MT ‘very sceptical’ about the proposal; "wait for Roskill"] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor) [the markets, Budget, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 briefing for MT (bilateral with the Chancellor on budget and taxation issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MacGregor minute for Brittan (“Fraud”) [agrees need for increases in DTI manpower] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Lloyds and the Financial Services Bill”) [not sure inquiry best ; do not rule out including it in Bill right away] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Chief Whip's office minute for Norgrove (“Roskill Report”) [right of the Chairman and members of a Committee to raise the matter in the House] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lord Young PS minute to Brittan PS (“1986 Budget”) [employment issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [agrees with Hurd] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lawson, Governor of the Bank of England) [agreement to set up narrowly focussed enquiry into Lloyd’s] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Roskill Report”) [litmus test of government determination to tackle fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT (“Future of the Top Salaries Review Body”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Sir Peter Green letter to MT (Brian Sedgemore allegations about Lloyd’s and Janson Green Agency) [rebuttal] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Hurd, Havers, Mayhew, Wakeham, Leigh-Pemberton) [decisions on Roskill Report] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [“the battle on for Maggie’s crown”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [MacGregor or Ken Clarke to head inderdepartmental review of Roskill? MT opts for MacGregor] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan minute for MacGregor (“Fraud”) [thanks for "speedy positiive response" to request for additional resources] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Future of the Top Salaries Review Body”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1986 Budget Day”) [timing of announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [disappointed that Government will not be making claims] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Heseltine resignation) [“Tarzan goes to war”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights for MT (Westland, economy) [“Heseltine’s resignation will dominate the weekend media”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Howe (direct private investment overseas) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Home Office minute for No.10 (“Roskill Report”) [Home Secretary’s revised statement] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howard letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [requests amendment in relation to CAA powers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“Westlands will unfortunately dominate this week”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Treasury minute to Department of Trade and Industry (“Lloyds and the Financial Services Bill”) [wants early report by enquiry in case need to amend Bill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“I have stressed to BAA the need to keep their settlement as low as possible”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker class action settlement: claims by government departments”) [“if Government Departments are not to submit claims… Parliament should be told”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Budget”) [meeting with Lawson] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 2nd (cabinet membership, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland, Channel Fixed Link) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Biffen letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill”) [amendment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [outcome of the G5, the markets, tin, oil, personal taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights for MT (Westland, Channel link, Ulster protest rally) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Whitelaw minute for Douglas Hurd (“Roskill Report: Early Debates”) [Parliamentary arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Action Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [opposes idea] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“The Channel Link and the RSG debate will today take over from Westland”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Wicks minute for Armstrong (“Long-term Trends and Social Expenditure in the Group of Seven Major Industrial Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [unlikely to catch on in UK, but leveraged takeovers financed by banks may already be] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Chief Secretary to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [interdepartmental committee on Roskill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Spicer letter to Michael Howard (Airports Bill) [proposed amendments: “I am not attracted to your ideas”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“content… with the proposal that departments should not submit claims”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Department of Trade and Industry minute to Treasury (“Lloyd’s and the Financial Services Bill”) [even if legislation needed, Tebbit opposes its inclusion in Financial Services Bill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 3rd (Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“danger that we may be becoming too complacent about our alleged success in reducing public sector trading settlements”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [defence against separate privatisation of Stansted] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“Maggie: I won’t be pushed out”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Westland, Reagan’s state of the union address, OPEC meeting, rates reform, inner cities] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Crown Agents: Pensions Work”) [overseas pensions work to be absorbed by Overseas Development Administration] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to John Moore (“Bilateral on Deregulation”) [Inland Revenue/Customs & Excise proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Wicks (the Personal Representatives meeting: preparations for Tokyo Summit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, oil prices, unemployment figures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury note to No.10 (“Grades 2 and 3 - Discretionary Pay”) [discussion note] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Home Office letter to Norgrove (H Committee work on Roskill report) [MT agrees no need to complete till end April] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 4th (cabinet membership, Parliamentary Affairs, Economic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Teachers’ Pay Dispute) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Attorney General’s Chambers letter to Nick Ridley PS (“BA Privatisation”) [legal advice in context of ongoing Laker litigation in US] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Select Committee hearing, European consortium’s offer] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Lawson (“Treasury Economic Forecast”) [oil at $20 and 15] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT letter to Bryan Gould MP (Michael Howard’s role in relation to the Financial Services Bill) [has declared his interest; no breach of rules] [released 2014]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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