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80 Apr 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sherman minute to MT ("Need for Better Economic Advice - in re Alan Walters") [recommends appointment of Walters as advisor] [released 2011] |
|
80 Apr 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: HMT letter to FCO ("The Budget: Overseas Reactions") [position reception for Budget] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Apr 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Sir Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("Government Objectives and Strategies") [CPRS note] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Apr 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Robin Ibbs meeting) [CPRS assessment of economic strategy] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Apr 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Record of conversation (Personal Representatives of G7 Heads of State of Government) [preparation for Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Apr 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 38 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Apr 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Howell letter to Biffen (“Disposal Programme 1980-81”) [“we must work out our approach to the public trading sector industry”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Apr 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (MacKay letters to Biffen and The Times ) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Ridley note for Carrington ("Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012] |
|
80 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Treasury Select Committee, monetary policy, Iran] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note to Ryder ("Public Reactions to the 1980 Budget") [released 2011] |
|
80 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Lankester ("Enterprise Zones") [feedback of provincial editors on enterprise zones] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Channon note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 39 (Report of the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Nott letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Employee participation in British Airways Limited”) [“The Government has an opportunity to set an example to the private sector”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 May 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Adam Butler letter to Biffen (Disposal Programme 1980/81) [BAe; NEB; Cable and Wireless] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 May 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 15th (Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, Pay of Nationalised Industry Board Members) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Seminar with Economists") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Fishing: T.W. Boyd letter to MT ("Fishing Industry/Hull") [requests financial assistance to keep Port of Hull open] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Hayek (disagrees that she should have reduced borrowing and monetary expansion more rapidly) ["too much social and economic disruption in the short-run ... to have been feasible"] [released 2011] |
|
80 May 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Hayek (economic issues) ["Although I understand your view that it might have been easier politically to have reduced our borrowing and monetary expansion more rapidly, I think this would have caused too much social and economic disruption"] [released 2011] |
|
80 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Statistics: Central Statistical Office minute to No.10 ("RPI and TPI") ["You asked this morning when the RPI and TPI will cross over"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
80 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.11 record of conversation (Treasury-CBI) [economic discussion] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Channon note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 40 (Goverment Control Over Public Board Members' Pay and Pensions) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Nott memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 43 (Britain's International Trade Policies) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 42 (Local Authority Current Expenditure) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 16th (Government Control Over Public Board Members' Pay and Pensions) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph and Nott memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 41 (Problems of the Textile and Clothing Industries) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Younger memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 44 (Local Authority Expenditure in Scotland 1980-81) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 45 (Open-Ended Contracts) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Servants’ Contracts of Employment”) [“possibilities of altering”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 May 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 17th (Textile and Clothing Industries, Local Government Expenditure) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Howell ("Depletion Policy") [North Sea oil] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Fishing: MT letter to T.W. Boyd (fishing industry in Hull) [reply to Boyd's letter] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 May 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with the CBI") [briefing documents] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-CBI) [economy and trade unions] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 46 (Public Sector Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Walter Salomon (exchange control and sterling) [released 2011] |
|
80 Jun 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 47 (The Next Pay Round: Campaign of Public Education) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 48 (Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 49 (Pay and the Public Sector) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: HMT brief for European Council, Venice, 12/13 June 1980 - EHG(V)(80) 4 (Economic and Social Situation in the Community) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jun 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: FCO brief for European Council, Venice, 12/13 June 1980 - EHG(V)(80) 7 (Preparation for the Economic Summit: (22/23) June: Economic Aspects) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jun 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 50 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow record of conversation (MT-Thorneycroft) [economy, Europe, Parliament] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jun 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Robert Rhodes James”) [Rhodes James sceptical of government’s economic strategy] [released 2017] |
|
80 Jun 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Carrington, Argentine Minister of the Economy Martinez de Hoz) [Argentine economy & political situation] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jun 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, Argentine Minister of the Economy Martinez de Hoz) [Falkland Islands] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jun 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 18th (Public Sector Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 51 (International Conference Centre) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Douglas Hague's Paper") [public expenditure] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 52 (Gas Gathering Line) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 32 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States for May 1980”) [“growing signs that recession will be quite deep”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jun 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 19th (Open-Ended Contracts, Gas Gathering Line, International Conference Centre) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Argentina: Nick Ridley letter to Gow (MT meeting with Argentine Minister of the Economy, Martinez De Hoz) [note of conversation] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jun 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Venice European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [Foreign Secretary notes] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Economic Strategy") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 53 (Civil Service Pay: Improvements to Pay Research System) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 54 (Public Services Pay in the Next Pay Round) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 55 (Public Sector Pay: The Main Issues) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 56 (Public Sector Pay: Factual Background) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson PS note to PPS ("Meeting with the CBI") [link between pay, inflation and unemployment] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Jun 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (AEI) |
EC: Venice European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
80 Jun 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Influencing National Pay Behaviour") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: British Consulate General Milan letter to UKE Rome (“Dr. Giancarlo Bosetti and Signor Liugi Corbani”) [DC to fight election on terrorism and government’s financial mismanagement] [declassified December 2010] |
|
80 Jun 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: FCO Planning Staff minute to East European & Soviet Department (“Hungary’s relations with the Soviet Union and the West”) [fear of domestic upheaval driving economic policy turn to the West ] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Treasury & No.10 officials) [influencing national pay behaviour] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 20th (Public Sector Pay, Ferranti) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Shares for employees”) [proposed policy] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jun 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("The Pay Round Debate") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [short summary] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury note to No.10 ("Economic Prospect in the Medium Term") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 57 (Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Prime Minister Ito of Japan letter to MT (death of Ohira, need for Summit meetings to deal with economic problems) [released 2011] |
|
80 Jun 22 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Record of conversation (G7 Energy and Finance Ministers) [Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 22 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Venice Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 22 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Venice Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Revised Draft Declaration of the Venice Summit
[extensive annotations by MT] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Draft Declaration of the Venice Summit
[declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Venice summit (quadripartite meeting of representatives) [East/West relations] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Venice Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT statement to the House of Commons (Venice Economic Summit) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 58 (Pay of the Industrial Civil Service) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Adam Butler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Shares for employees”) [“because company circumstances can vary so widely, we must allow for flexibility and variety within guidelines”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jun 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [Canadian constitution, Summit declarations, east-west relations, Central America] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
80 Jun 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 21st (British Steel Corporation, Trade Policies, Non-Tariff Bariers to Trade) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 59 (The Review Bodies: Membership and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: Nott PS letter to No.10 ("Industrial structure") ["Green Paper setting out the Department's proposals to allow companies to purchase their own shares... [Nott] considers that the publication... will provide him with the opportunity to deliver a wider speech [on the economy]"; draft speech attached] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
80 Jun 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 22nd (Central Government Borrowing Requirement 1980-81, Industrial Civil Service Pay, Public Sector Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 60 (Fast Reactor Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Prior and Jenkin memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 61 (Unemployment Benefits for Workers Laid Off in a Trade Dispute) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Burns note to Lankester (draft presentation to Cabinet) [economic strategy] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: CRD briefing ("Current Economic Indicators - June 1980") [released 2011] |
|
80 Jun 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Canada: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (MT looks forward to Ottawa G7 summit) [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howe memo circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 35 (The Economic Prospect) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns letter to Burns (comments on draft presentation to Cabinet) [economic strategy] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Shields minute to Middleton ("Select Committee: Minford") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor-Murray-Prior) [TUC] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 23rd (Nurses' Pay, Unemployment Benefit for Workers Laid Off in Trade Disputes, Fast Reactor Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 62 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Samuel Brittan note for Ryder (Proof for Lombard column in the Financial Times ) [criticisms of Bank of England] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Prior-TUC General Secretary Len Murray) [NEDC, North Sea Oil, oil prices, trade unions, public expenditure, unemployment] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Jul 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("TSRB - Cabinet") [Top Salaries Review Body recommendations; Hoskyns outlines Government's case for curbing MP salaries in line with others: risks of uncontrollable "inflation... higher unemployment, much greater recession"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
80 Jul 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("The Economic Prospect (C(80) 35)") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 39 (Public Expenditure: Main Issues) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Howell letter to Howe ("Depletion Policy") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: HMT press statement ("MLR") [cut to MLR] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“Shares for employees”) [proposed ceiling on shares for employees from public sector disposals] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Howell minute to MT (“Shares for employees”) [“it is important to decide each privatisation case on its merits”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Adam Butler (“Shares for employees”) [percentage ceiling] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jul 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 27th (Top Salaries Review Body Reports, The Economic Prospect, etc) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 63 (Local Authority Current Expenditure 1980/81) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 66 (Influencing National Pay Behaviour) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Shares for employees”) [“the wider the shareholding is amongst employees, and the more significant the sum, the better our general objectives will be served”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jul 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) [Defence programme] [declassified 2013] |
|
80 Jul 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 65 (Investment and Financing Review: Telecommunications) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to George Thompson (defends actions on the economy) ["My problem is not to decide what to do but how to succeed in doing it"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (issues in the textiles industry) [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (Lancashire textile industry) [follow- up to meeting with Straw and Winterton] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jul 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Gow note to MT (Conservative Backbench Finance Committee) [summary of meeting] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 24th (Local Authority Current Expenditure 1980-81, Nationalised Industries Investment and Financing 1980, Telecommunications Investment, Financing, Pay and External Financing Limit 1980-81) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Minutes of meeting of National Union Executive Committee (Party Conference, Party matters, economic and political situation) [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to C.N. Beattie (MT defends record of first year in office) [trade unions, public spending, taxation] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Mrs S.J. Robinson (MT defends economic policies) ["Alas, only the difficult decisions come to me and some of them cause me great heartsearching"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Adam Butler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Shares for employees”) [percentage ceiling] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 28th (Ministers’ & MPs’ Pay, Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84, etc) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 (brief for lunch with economists, and Friedman's evidence to Treasury and Civil Service Committee) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 67 (Strategy for Coal) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer and Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 68 (Computerisation of PAYE: Procurement of Equipment) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Burns minute to Wiggins (briefing for Chequers luncheon with academic economists) [possible topic for discussion] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Jul 13 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-academics) [economic situation and strategy] [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 13 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-academic economists) [general economic discussion] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 13 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Biffen-Wass-Burns-academic economists) [economic situation and strategy] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Jul 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 69 (ICL - PAYE Computerisation) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 70 (Computerisation of PAYE: Procurement of Equipment) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Fowler minute to MT (“Shares for employees”) [“it may not be possible to provide free shares for employees in all the industries to be sold”] [declassified 2014] |
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80 Jul 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Sir Raymond Pennock letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (CBI views on pay policy) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 25th (Strategy for Coal, Computerisation of PAYE) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Pliantzky report ("Report on A Proposal For A National Investment Trust To Promote Wider Ownership of Property") [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Pliantzky letter to Whitmore ("Proposal for a National Investment Trust to promote wider property ownership") [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 71 (Comparability and Cash Limits) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 72 (Enterprise Zones) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Carlisle memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 73 (University Teachers' Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Boyle) [Top Salaries Review Body: Government response to TSRB reports] [declassified Dec 2011] |
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80 Jul 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns note to Lankester ("Is Public Expenditure Self-Indexing?") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Jenkin memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 74 (Nurses' Pay) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 75 (Public Sector Pay) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Review Bodies: membership and terms of reference) [the risks of Government amendments to aforesaid; informal Ministerial advice; relevance of wider economic considerations; linking Members of Parliament pay with civil service; arrangements for nationalised industries] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
80 Jul 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 26th (University Teachers' Pay, Enterprise Zones) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 27th (Public Sector Pay, Pay Review Bodies, Nurses' Pay, Influencing National Pay Behaviour) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 76 (CEGB Winter Fuel Stocks) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 78 (INMOS) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("The Pay Round Debate and the "Fear of Norms"") [Policy Unit paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock) [CBI] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 79 (Post Office Pay, Financing and Prices) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to Whitmore ("Censure Debate") [unemployment] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sherman notes for MT (censure debate speech) [criticism of present Government policy] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ingham minute to MT ("Censure Debate") [advice for censure debate] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Terry Burns letter to Whitmore (draft remarks for the Censure debate) [defence of policy] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jul 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: UKE Budapest to FCO (“Hungary: 1956 and 1980”) [continued relevance of 1956] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Department of Industry letter to Lankester ("Situation and Prospects of Industrial Sectors") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 28th (The Post Office, INMOS, British Steel Corporation Supply of Coking Coal) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Jul 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Burns presentation to Cabinet ("Outline Notes on Economic Strategy") [first page] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Gow minute to MT ("Joint Meeting of the Finance and Industry Committees held at the House of Commons at 5.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 29th July, 1980") [note on meeting with Biffen and Prior] [released 2011] |
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80 Jul 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 80 (BNOC: Private Sector Participation) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 81 (Disposal of BGC Oil Assets) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Walker and Younger memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 82 (Aid for the Fishing Industry) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Pattison minute to MT (comments from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Howell on National Oil Trust) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 83 (Restrictions in Management's Freedom to Respond to Industrial Action: Effects of Civil Servants' Terms and Conditions of Service) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 84 (Possible Legislation to Enable Civil Servants to be Laid Off Without Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 85 (Computerisation of PAYE) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 86 (NCB and CEGB: 1980/81 EFL's) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Text of MT interview for The Sunday Times with Hugo Young (economic issues) [released 2011] |
|
80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 29th (Teachers' Pay, Fishing Industry, BNOC Private Sector Participation, National Coal Board and CEGB External Financing Limits 1980/81, British Steel Corporation Supply of Coking Coal) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 87 (Finniston Report on the Engineering Profession) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Walker memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 88 (Liquid Milk Prices) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 89 (Liquid Milk Prices) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Lawson (thanks for copy of lecture on "The New Conservatism") ["This is an absolutely marvellous exposition"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Aug 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 90 (Computerisation of PAYE) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Northern Ireland TUC delegation) [economic situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 30th (Finniston Report, Liquid Milk Prices, Disposal of BNOC Assets) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Aug 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 91 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Aug 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT (“Possible Japanese investment in the motor industry”) [MT: “Agree very strongly about the need to use our components”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Aug 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Younger letter to Biffen ("Economic Case for Torness AGR") [nuclear power] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 31st (Computerisation of PAYE, University Teachers' Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 42 to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for July 1980”) [“decline in US economic activity is continuing”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Aug 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Policy Unit) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 10 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sherman minute to MT ("Monetarism is Not Enough") [criticism of Government policy] [released 2011] |
|
80 Aug 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow record of conversation (MT-Edward Du Cann) [Civil Service, unemployment, monetarism, CCO, Local Government, Party Conference, Select Committees] [released 2011] |
|
80 Aug 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Rigby of Rigby Electronics (developments at his company) [released 2011] |
|
80 Aug 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Economy: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Fentiman Dinner, 22 July") [points arising from discussion at dinner] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Aug 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Ministerial Steering Group on Government Strategy (MISC 14)") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Contracting Out of Public Sector Functions") [CPRS progress report] [declassified 2010] |
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80 Aug 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Harold Macmillan letter to MT (views on the present economic situation) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Aug 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3847 to FCO (2145Z) (“Economic package”) [stimulating investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Aug 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letters to Baldwin, Brenner and Rhodes (visit to Cambridge) [released 2011] |
|
80 Aug 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3869 to FCO (1848Z) (“Economic package”) [stimulating investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Sep 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute to MT ("Monetary Control") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 92 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Lord Carrington (“Development Policy”) [“Howe’s proposals are likely to generate controversy”] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Sep 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Economic Strategy - Latest Developments") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Treasury-Bank of England) (full record) [MT attacks Bank handling of monetary policy] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Record of conversation (Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore-Peter Tripp) [UK economic situation; Yew claims that UK workers have "insufficient pride in their work"] [released 2011] |
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80 Sep 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Now! Speech") [notes for speech] [released 2011] |
|
80 Sep 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 93 (Local Authority Current Expenditure: 1980/81) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Younger memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 94 (Local Authority Current Expenditure (Scotland) - 1980-81) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Economy: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("John Redwood on the Current Economic Situation") ["Master Redwood is making a mouthful of a perfectly straightforward point"] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Brunner letter to MT (monetary policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 32nd (Local Authority Current Expenditure 1980-81, BNOC Revenue Bonds Scheme) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 96 (Strategy for Coal) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 97 (British Gas Corporation - Disposal of Oil Assets) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 98 (BNOC: Timing of Clyde Oilfield Development) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (brief for MT meeting with Pennock) [CBI] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 99 (Strategy for Coal) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pliatzky-Chancellor-Howell-Joseph) ["Proposal for a National Investment Trust"] [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock) [CBI] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 100 (Rail Services to Gatwick Airport) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Fowler and Nott memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 101 (Rail Services to Gatwick Airport) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 102 (British Steel Corporation Finances) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 103 (British Shipbuilders Finances) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 104 (Nationalised Industries Contribution to Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Fowler memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 105 (British Rail Finances) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 33rd (Strategy for Coal, British Gas Corporation Disposal of Oil Assets, BNOC: Timing of Clyde Oil Field Development) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 106 (British Shipbuilders Finances) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: Len Murray letter to MT ("Unemployment and the Economic Situation") [TUC] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Pay: Ingham minute to Maude ("Presentation of the Government's Economic Strategy") [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ridley MSS) |
Economy: Cardona note (111th "Chancellor's Meeting") [inflow controls, monetary situation, PSBR, etc] [released 2011] |
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80 Sep 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 34th (British Steel Corporation Finances, British Shipbuilders' Finances, British Rail Finances, Nationalised Industries' Contribution to Public Expenditure 1981-81 and 1983-84) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: HMT letter to No.10 ("Anglo-French Summit: Prime Minister's Meeting with M. Barre") [briefing note] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Pay: Vereker minute to Whitmore ("Presentation of the Government's Economic Strategy") [MT 'reluctant to limit a campaign' to focusing on pay, 'important though it is'] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 33rd (Foreign Affairs Council, The Economic Situation, Commission Directive under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome, etc) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Sep 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade: Keith Joseph letter to Oldham and District Textile Employers’ Association (Mill closures) [“our objective is to get down the rate of inflation”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Sep 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKDel IMF telegram ("IMF: world economic outlook") ["broad agreement on the serious state of the world economy, and particularly on the very serious problems faced by at least some non-oil developing countries"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
80 Sep 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Economic Strategy") [Douglas Hague note] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-French Minister of the Economy, Monory) [economic issues, Community Budget] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Barre of France) [Community affairs, fisheries, Community Budget, sheepmeat, Zimbabwe, Commission portfolios, economic matters, North/South] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Giscard) [plenary session: foreign affairs, economic affairs, industrial matters, maritime and aviation matters] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Geoffrey Howe to Michael Latham (economic policy criticisms) [arrangements for a discussion of Latham’s anxieties] [released 2017] |
|
80 Sep 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Jill Knight (response to her telegram urging MT to lower interest rates) ["we cannot move them down until we are sure that we have the money supply properly under control"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Sep 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Douglas Hague minute to MT ("Unemployment") [analysis] [released 2011] |
|
80 Sep 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Karamanlis of Greece) [economic situation in Greece, Middle East, NATO, Turkey] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Djuranovic of Yugoslavia) [second session: Iran-Iraq war, Poland, Soviet Union, international economic relations, military cooperation] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mijatovic of Yugoslavia) [bilateral relations, international economc relations] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Vote on the Economic Decree”) [Cossiga’s government narrowly survived] [declassified December 2010] |
|
80 Sep 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Draft Speech for the Society of Motor Manufacturers Dinner on 16 October") [released 2011] |
|
80 Sep 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Macedonia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Popov of Macedonia) [development of the Macedonian Republic, economic development, cultural development, bilateral relations] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (meeting with the Committee of London Clearing Bankers, February 1981) [arrangements following MT request for resumption of meetings] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
80 Sep 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Younger memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 107 (Local Authority Current Expenditure in Scotland in 1980-81) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Pay: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Presentation of the Government's Economic Strategy") ["The Prime Minister wishes Ministers to explain...the realities of pay bargaining in today's circumstances"] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Carrington note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 54 (White Paper: Developments in the European Community - January to June 1980) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 108 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT (“Possible Japanese investment in the motor industry”) [Nissan invitation to officials] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Young Contractors Group) [economic issues] [released 2011] |
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80 Oct 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 35th (Civil Service Contracts of Employment, Local Authority Expenditure in Scotland 1980-81, Circulation of Memoranda) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Monetary Policy: Mario Monti letter to MT (seminar on monetary control) [Monti 'honoured' to be invited to discuss issues with MT] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 113 (Arbitration Arrangements in the Public Sector) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walter Goldsmith letter to MT (views of the Institute of Directors on Government policy) [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (MT to chair NEDC: arrangements) [declassified 2011] |
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80 Oct 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury press release ("Economic Progress Report, October Issue") [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 109 (Industrial Support Measures) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("A Summary and Assessment of the Latest National Income Forecast") [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 110 (Special Employment Measures) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Economic policy: Burns minute for Chancellor (“Short term economic prospects”) [output to recover Q3 1981; modest inflation decline; PSBR 1981-82 £11.25b] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Oct 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Meeting with the TUC General Council 14 October: Steering Brief") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 111 (Industrial Training) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 115 (Comparability and Cash Limits) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Whitelaw note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 55 (The Queen’s Speeches on the Prorogation & Opening of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Supplementary Briefing for the Meeting with the TUC General Council: 14 October 1980") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 114 (Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 117 (Industrial Training) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 118 (Public Service Pay in the 1980-81 Pay Round) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 119 (Public Services Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's Visit to Bulmers, 12 December: The Productivity and Marketing Campaign") [planning for MT's visit] [released 2011] |
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80 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: UKE Budapest to FCO (“The Hungarian Compromise: A Balance Sheet”) [“the nerve ends of society have not been anaesthetized by material improvements”] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: Transcipt of World At One radio programme (interview with David Basnett of the TUC General Council on meeting with MT) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: Transcipt of TUC press conference ("TUC General Council's Press Conference Held After Meeting With the Prime Minister on Tuesday 14 October at 10 Downing Street") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers-TUC General Council) [unemployment and economic policy] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute to Frank Taylor (priorities) [should discuss issues raised soon] [released 2017] |
|
80 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow to Frank Taylor (privatised and state industries) [“the Government’s whole economic strategy is the only one which can be followed if we are to defeat inflation”] [released 2017] |
|
80 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 36th (Special Employment Measures, Industrial Training, Industrial Support Measures) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 37th (Public Service Pay 1980-81, Arbitration Arrangements in the Public Services, Civil Service Pay, Comparability and Cash Limits, Contingency Planning) [declassified 2010] |
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80 Oct 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 112 (British Shipbuilders Strategy and Finance) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to D.H. Beattie (MT sorry to learn of small business troubles) [MT defends record] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 121 (Nationalised Industries External Financing Limits 1981-82 and Financing Requirements in the Later Years (1982-3 and 1983-4)) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Dr. Steven Muller (thanks for granting Alan Walters leave) [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Susan Crabtree (MT sorry to hear of small business difficulties) [MT defends economic record] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Lord Caccia (thanks for letter) ["We shall go through a difficult time in the coming months and there will be many faint-hearts"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (NEDC: adding Heseltine to the Ministerial team on the Council) [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Oct 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Development Policy”) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow to Mrs Leah Smart (privatised and state industries) [“the Government is seeking to introduce competition into those sectors where, at present, the nationalised industries have a monoploy”] [released 2017] |
|
80 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Whitelaw note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 57 (The Queen’s Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Industry: Elizabeth Lamb to Nicholas Ridley (moisture measuring indicators) [can Ridley purchase more of these devices in the US?] [released 2017] |
|
80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 58 (Public Expenditure Programmes) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howe memo circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 59 (The Economic Prospect & Implications for Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Unwin briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Cabinet on 23 October: The Economic Prospect") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 38th (British Shipbuilders Strategy and Finance, Nationalised Industries Financing) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to W.C. Baum (thanks for releasing Alan Walters to join MT's staff) [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: 9 am on Thursday 23 October") [brief for meeting: public expenditure, NEDC] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Oct 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 (Chancellor of the Exchequer’s weekend meeting at Chevening) [future economic strategy and current public expenditure issues] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Oct 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 116 (Industrial Support and Employment Measures) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 36th (The Situation in the Prison Services, Queen’s Speech, Civil Service Manpower, etc) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Kodak Vice-President (thanks for support) [seeking "long-term solutions to fundamental problems"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Sanders minute to MT (Earnings Survey, 1979-80) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to Lankester (Earnings Survey, 1979-80) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 122 (Public Services Pay in 1980-81: Transitional Problems) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: FCO letter to No.10 ("Preparation for the European Council") [possible topics for discussion] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letters to small business owners (difficulties for small businesses) [MT defends economic policies] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Whitelaw note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 63 (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT (“Nissan”) [inward investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Oct 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("The Economic Situation and Public Expenditure (C(80) 58-61, 64 and 65)") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 63 (Economic Strategy and Price Policy for Agriculture) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sherman memo to MT ("The Crunch: Possible Political Repercussions and choices when the Economy can no longer carry on as it is") [forms the crisis might take] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 37th (Monsieur Thorn’s Visit, Queen’s Speech, The Economic Prospect & Public Expenditure, etc) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury report ("Economic Prospects: October 1980 Report") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 123 (Computerisation of PAYE: Revised Approach) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 124 (Computerisation of PAYE) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Oct 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: CRD briefing ("Current Economic Indicators - October 1980") [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Lord John Vaizey (training) ["I share many of your misgivings about our current training efforts"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Roy Jenkins) [EMS; European Commission portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
80 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 125 (Nationalised Industries: External Financing Limits 1981-82) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 126 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 128 (Industrial Energy Pricing) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Gow note to MT (Treasury Select Committee testimony) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Transcript of MT's interview with Patrick Sergeant of the Daily Mail (economic issues, unions, taxation, state industries) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 67 (The Queen's Speech on the Prorogation of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper minute to Treasury (Conservative backbench Finance Committee) [Rippon sharply attacks policy] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Timetable for Announcement of Policy Decisions") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Cropper record of meeting ("Conservative Party Finance Committee - 4 November 1980") [discussion on economic policy, openend by Geoffrey Rippon] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 38th (Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 39th (Computerisation of PAYE, Nationalised Industries External Financing Limits 1981-82, Industrial Energy Pricing) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Whitelaw note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 127 (Civil Contingency Planning) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, members of Top Salaries Review Body) [future role & methodology of TSRB] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: DT note to MT (encloses letter from business friend) [“shows ... you’re winning”] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Wass paper for Howe-MT ("Policy Options") ["ways of mitigating the adverse conditions in which British industry is operating"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Policy Options") [Douglas Wass paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Lord Weinstock (thanks for meeting and gift of orchids) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Nicholas Goodison (MT too busy to attend another City occasion) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 68 (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to President Carter (Presidency of the World Bank) [MT supports candidacy of Tom Clausen] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Harold Wilson (regulation of the stock exchange) [response to Wilson's Committee report] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
City: MT letter to Sir Harold Wilson (Stock Exchange) [defends decision not to exempt; EC would have launched inquiry if RPC case abandoned] [declassified 2013] |
|
80 Nov 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper minute to Treasury (Conservative backbench Finance Committee) [unemployment, 6 per cent “incomes policy”, money supply & MLR] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Policy Options") [Policy Unit comments on Douglas Wass' paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Cropper record of conversation (Conservative Backbench Finance Committee) [unemployment, trade unions, monetary and fiscal policy] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Wass) [considers Wass's "Policy Options" paper] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Wass) [discussion of Wass' paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow note to MT (comment on speech by Enoch Powell) ["This is not helpful. Enoch really has got it wrong this time"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock and Beckett of the CBI) [economic policy and industrial situation, interest rates, exchange rate, National Insurance surcharge, public sector pay and employment] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Adam Ridley minute for Howe (comments on Wass "Policy Options") [backs early reduction in MLR] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 131 (Arbitration on Public Services Pay) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sir Monty Finniston (concerns of affiliated Chambers of Commerce and Industry regarding pressures on industry) [MT responds to criticisms] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 130 (Local Authority Housing Capital Overspend 1980/81 (England)) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 132 (Industrial Training) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sir Nicholas Cayzer (many at CBI want Government to change course) ["A permanent change of attitude and the calm resolution to see it through are vital"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howe memo circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 72 (Public Expenditure) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 133 (Industrial Training) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to M.J. Verey (MT pleased by response to CBI Director General's speech criticising Government policy) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sir George Bolton (thanks for advice on monetary policy) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 40th (Local Authority Housing: Capital Overspend 1980-81, Industrial Training) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Tommy Macpherson (thanks for economic advice and support) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Walter Goldsmith (thanks for economic advice and support) [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: HMT brief for European Council, Luxembourg, 1-2 December 1980 - EHG(L2)(80) 3 (Economic and Social Situation in the Community) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 134 (Computer Procurement Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 135 (UK Space Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Parliament: Sanders minute to MT (Queen's Speech: Opposition topics for Debate on the Address) [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Economy: Wiggins minute to Unwin ("Economic Debate on 26/27 November") [Chancellor's thoughts for Autumn Statement Debate speech] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 41st (Parliamentary Statements, Confidentiality, Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84, etc) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT (Guardian article by Peter Jenkins) [discussion of Wass' paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [draft statement] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("End November Announcement") [draft statement] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Leslie Fullylove letter to MT (meeting of Bradford Chamber of Commerce) ["stick to your guns, Margaret, we still have great faith in you"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT (“Nissan”) [inward investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lords Boyle & Plowden letter to MT (Top Salaries Review Body) [follow-up to issues raised by MT at meeting with TSRB] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
80 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 136 (Public Purchasing Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("February NEDC: Agenda") [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Joseph minute to MT ("North/South Summit") [arrangements for Mexico City summit, 1981] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Nov 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury briefing document ("Briefing for 24 November Announcements") [first page] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [Schmidt's visit to Washington, Reagan's Administration, arms control negotiations] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Nov 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Prime Minister Forlani of Italy) [EC issues, Middle East and oil supplies, Italian economy] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury press release ("Economic Prospects to End- 1981") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper minute to Treasury (Conservative backbench Finance Committee) [Chancellor questioned - MLR, PSBR, lost year, “move away from monetarism”, etc] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper minute to Treasury (Conservative backbench Finance Committee) [Gow cover note on Biffen questions - MTFS “a foreign tongue to me”, Howe & others ‘concerned’] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 137 (Oil Prices and Supply) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Cropper record of conversation (Conservative Backbench Finance Committee) [public expenditure, monetary policy, pay, pensions, taxation] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to P.L. Waddell (inflation) ["As you say, inflation is the real enemy"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sir John Clark (CBI Conference) ["Some of the comments made there were rather unexpected and, in my view, unwise"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Wales CBI speech: 11 December 1980") [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Conservative Research Department briefing document ("Economic Affairs - The Chancellor's Statement") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 41st (UK Space Policy, Oil Prices and Supply) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Howe minute to MT (“Nissan”) [inward investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 42nd (Public Purchasing Policy, Computer Procurement Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to the Duke of Buccleuch (economic prospects) ["We shall have a very difficult year"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North/South Summit") [preparations for Mexico City summit, 1981] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph letter to Nott (“Nissan”) [inward investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade: MT letter to Jack Straw MP (financial assistance for the textile industry”) [MT emphasises need to control inflation] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ingham letter to DoI Press Officer (Keith Joseph comment on “the lost year”) [MT agrees but does not say so in public] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 140 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: MT notes from Luxembourg European Council (views of different EC leaders) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sir William Lithgow (economic prospects) [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Economy: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Bank Lending") [personal lending package] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 138 (The British Steel Corporation and Private Sector Steel Companies) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Summary by the Presidency of the Proceedings of the European Council (Luxembourg European Council, 1/2 December 1980) [earthquake in Italy, economic situation, industry, trade, European Commission, Three Wise Men, Middle East, East-West relations] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sir William Lithgow (economic prospects) [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (European Union) |
EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
80 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: British Legation to the Holy See minute to Carrington (“The Prime Minister’s Visit to the Pope”) [report] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 43rd (Arbitration on Public Services Pay, The Steel Industry, Liquid Milk Prices) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to MT ("Welsh CBI Speech") [key themes] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Prime Minister Suzuki letter to MT (Japanese-European relations) [trade relations; international economy; global political stability] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
80 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to London by the Japanese Foreign Minister") [Carrington to meet with Ito; recommends MT do likewise to discuss Afghanistan; Iran; Middle East; economic relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
80 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan letter to MT (need for global co-operation on economic issues) [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to MT ("Welsh CBI Speech") [revisions] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: President Giscard letter to MT (economic situation and oil prices) [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute to Michael Jopling (letter from Geoffrey Rippon) [monetary targets, public sector pay] [released 2017] |
|
80 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Seventh Round of Offshore Licensing") [outline of awards process; decisions reached; next steps] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
80 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Drummond minute to Gaffin ("Hereford and Leominster") [arrangements for MT's visits] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [tete-a-tete session: hunger strike at HMP Maze, political situation in Northern Ireland and the Republic, economic situation, Poland, UN, political cooperation] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey-British and Irish Ministers) [plenary session: economic situation, hunger strike at HMP Maze, Anglo-Irish cooperation, Poland] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Soames minute to MT (“Civil service protest meetings”) [“The extent of support for the meetings was higher than we could have expected for this type of demonstration”] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Multilateral financial organisations") ["whether our multilateral aid bill could be reduced... I do not think there would be a clear advantage in simply trying to minimise our share"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
80 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Gow note to MT (Conservative Backbench Finance Committee) [concern at Biffen's answers to questions] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to President Giscard (economic situation and oil prices) [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Gow note to MT (Conservative Party Finance Committee meeting) [Biffen gives "excellent" opening statement, but concerns about his comments on MTFS] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT (“Nissan”) [inward investment] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to MT ("Welsh CBI Speech") [notes on revised draft] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Edwards minute to MT (Welsh CBI Speech) [suggested amendments] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Nissan”) [“unions are quite likely to object”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 142 (BNOC: Timing of Clyde Oilfield Development) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 143 (Fast Reactor Policy) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 147 (Information Technology) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Heseltine letter to MT (“Local authority housing: capital overspend 1980-81”) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joseph, Howe, Nott, Gilmour) [“Nissan”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 146 (Pay Review Bodies) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 149 (BNOC: Timing of Clyde Oilfield Development) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Prior letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Effects of Increased National Insurance Contributions on Pay Bargaining") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 144 (Iron and Steel Bill 1981) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 150 (British Leyland: 1981 Corporate Plan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 145 (British Leyland's Corporate Plan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Tolkien minute to Biffen, Lawson and others ("1981 Budget") [Chancellor of the Exchequer wants a "preliminary indication of your thinking on what should be the thrust and character of the 1981 Budget"] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Heseltine PS letter to Ministers (“Statement by the Secretary of State for the Environment on Housing - today”) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Fearn minute for Ridley ("Falkland Islands: Unattributable Press Briefing") [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 44th (Pay Review Bodies, BNOC: Timing of Clyde Oil Field Development, Green Paper on Trade Union Immunities) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: CPRS note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 151 (British Leyland Corporate Plan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Economy: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Medium Term Prospects and the Fiscal Adjustment") [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury briefing document ("Treasury Select Committee's Report on the Government's Economic Policy: Press Briefing") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 45th (British Steel Corporation Closures, Information Technology, Iron and Steel Bill 1981, British Leyland's Corporate Plan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Confidential Annex to Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 45th (Nissan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Rees minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Wass minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Issues and the Medium Term Prospect") [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury and Civil Service Committee Report ("Government's Economic Policy: Autumn Review") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: World At One transcript (Chancellor of the Exchequer and Edward Du Cann) [discussion of Treasury Select Committee report] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 46th (Fast Reactor Policy, Iron and Steel Bill 1981, British Leyland's Corporate Plan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Confidential Annex to Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (80) 46th (British Leyland's Corporate Plan) [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Howell-Prior-Biffen-Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group) [Government/Nationalised Industry relations, economic situation, pay] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Wiggins minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot responses from HMT ministers and advisors] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Prior minute to MT ("Pay Brief") [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Bush minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stocktaking Note: Matter for Ministerial Attention") [issues likely to come up for ministerial attention in first quarter of 1981] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns note for MT ("Government Strategy") ["In the Policy Unit, we are amateurs in the political field"] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Maude minute to MT (need to offer hope of recovery) [cannot persuade Treasury to admit “even a glimmer to any briefing”] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: FCO to UKE Budapest (“The Hungarian Compromise”) [“fascinating ... extremely useful”; Polish comparison] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Government Strategy") [Policy Unit paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Gow notes on meeting (MT-Thorneycroft-Burns-Wolfson-Gow) [appointment of Alan Walters as economic advisor] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Maude minute to MT (unfavourable economic forecasts) ["Somehow we must begin to offer some hope of recovery somewhere"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Friday morning 'think meeting' outcome) [monetary policy, industrial policy, taxation, economic situation] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT (“Nissan”) [Nissan UK manufacturing operation] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths letter to MT (monetary policy seminar) [loss of credibility due to a "monetary policy which has been very permissive"] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("New Year's Eve Broadcasts") [briefing] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: HMT minute to No.10 (MT's New Year's Eve Broadcasts) [points to make] [released 2011] |
|
80 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit”) [whole day programme so Dutch taking it seriously, but planning at "a very early stage"] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“OECD economic outlook”) [“Prime Minister… very unhappy about the premature disclosure of the OECD report, and she doubts whether their failure to inform the Treasury in advance of their forecast on unemployment was accidental”] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Government Strategy") [response to Hoskyns' paper] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Dec 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Hugh Thomas minute to MT ("A Western policy towards the Soviet economy") ["Mr. Reagan's administration may be interested in a radical approach of this nature"] [released 2013] |
|
81 Jan 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013] |
|
81 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (help & encouragement) [praises her "sane & balanced OPTIMISM ... we ARE going to win through"] [released 2010] |
|
81 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Middleton minute to Wass ("Financing of Budget Deficits") [MT again suggests that HMT should take over marketing of Government securities from Bank] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Thorneycroft paper ("Policy Unit Paper") [comments on Policy Unit paper for Chequers strategy meeting] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Monetary Policy: Niehans report (“The Appreciation of Sterling - Causes, Effects, Policies”) [”a problem of, and for, monetary policy”; Walters’s copy] [published 1981] |
|
81 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Brian Griffiths letter to MT (paper on monetary control and the revision of the medium-term strategy) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Ingham ("Good Economic News: Reality and Illusion") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham minute to MT (presentational problems: negative economic news) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Whitmore minute to MT ("Mr. Walters: Attendance at Cabinet Committee Meetings") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: Thatcherism in Practice: A Progress Report (Speech to Zurich Society of Economics) |
|
81 Jan 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Plowden) [considerations for forthcoming Top Salaries Review Body's review] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jan 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Plowden) [Top Salaries Review Body: review on public servants & the economic context] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jan 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Top Salaries Review Body: draft letter to Lord Plowden) ["Government's general policies and their bearing... upon the work of the [TRSB]"; Cabinet members' amendments to draft] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jan 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Geoffrey Howe to Frank Taylor (public spending) [“we have achieved some very considerable reductions in the expenditure plans we found when we came into office”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jan 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Review of Government Strategy") [Chequers strategy meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph letter to Prior (“Quicksilver”) [Nissan UK manufacturing operation] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) ["Capital Tax Changes for the 1981 Budget"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) ["Benefits in Kind"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper record of meeting ("Conservative Party Finance Committee - 20 January 1981") [Chancellor of the Exchequer speaks on Budget] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Iran: MT letter to Bank of England Governor Gordon Richardson (release of hostages from the US Embassy in Iran) [thanks for work of Bank officials toward release] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Nott, Harold Atcherley) [Armed Forces Review Body & "the need to contain public spending"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jan 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Thorneycroft-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Brittan-Lawson) ["Presentation of Government Policy"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (“George Younger”) [proposed speech in the City] [released 2017] |