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

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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]

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