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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) 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) 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) 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) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates] [declassified 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) 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) Unemployment: Butcher letter to Sean Hughes (situation in Knowsley) [Industry Act assistance, council initiatives and grant schemes] [released Dec 2014]

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