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1986 Jul 1 - 1987 Feb 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2028
Broadcasting (Television licence fees; Peacock Report on Financing the BBC; BBC proposal for a world television news service) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 256
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86 Dec 9 Tu Major Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Paul Channon ("World Administrative Radio Conference on High Frequency Broadcasting: Geneva, February 1987") [brief for political and technical preparation for conference] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Dec 9 Tu Major Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [more preparatory work needed] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Dec 4 Th Major Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to Geoffrey Howe ("World Television Service") [no question of licence fee support for BBC extending external services] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Dec 10 We Major Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("World Television Service") [not letting BBC's proposals dictate agenda] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 28 Fr Major Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [no question of licence fee revenue being used for BBC external services] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 21 Fr Major Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to Geoffrey Howe ("World Television Service") [use of licence fee income] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 19 We Major Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("World Television Service") [MT agrees right way forward is through the private sector] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 18 Tu Major Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [private sector will be given chance to make proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 4 Mo Major Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Peacock Report") [problems of obscenity and violence and political bias] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 1 Tu Major Broadcasting: Lawson PS minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report") [response to recommendation on regulatory arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 4 Fr Major Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("BBC Accounts") [accounting practices in respect of depreciation] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 2 We Major Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove ("Peacock Report") [Hurd's statement on public service broadcasting] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 2 We Major Broadcasting: David Norgrove ​​​​​minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report") [regulatory system of controls] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 3 Th Major Broadcasting: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Peacock Report") [membership of ministerial group] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 7 Tu Major Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to No. 10 ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [subscription TV, ITV contracts, radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 28 Tu Major Broadcasting: Peter Warry minute to MT ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [independent producers, privatising radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 14 Tu Major Broadcasting: Peter Warry minute to MT ("Peacock Report") [advertising, licencing, licence fee] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 14 Tu Major Broadcasting: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Implications for Telecommunications Policy (MISC 128(86) 4)") [splitting telecommunciations from other Peacock issues] [declassified Feb 2016]
87 Jan 21 We Major Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to MT (BBC licence fee) [sponsorship as an alternative form of advertising] [declassified Feb 2016]
87 Jan 12 Mo Major Broadcasting: John Major minute to Douglas Hurd ("Television Licence Fee") [indexation of licence by RPI] [declassified Feb 2016]