The Chancellor of the Exchequer's secret files (Lawson)
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 bulk of Nigel Lawson's files, 1983-89, were released at TNA in early 2018 and have been digitised; they are being uploaded progressively and many are now available.
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.
