The Chancellor of the Exchequer's secret files (Howe)
In 2012 www.margaretthatcher.org uncovered through an FOI request the existence of a vast cache of secret papers stored at H.M. Treasury, some 4,850 files from the Private Office of successive Chancellors (and Chief Secretaries) between 1979 and 1997.
The first section, covering the Chancellorship of Sir Geoffrey Howe, 1979-83, was released at TNA in 2016; the files have been digitised and uploaded to the list below.
Below are links to the downloadable files in numerical order. The original file names have been modified to convey content more readily. An average file has around 100 pages.
