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.

Showing items 951 - 1000 of 1089

File name	Title	Begins	Ends	Release date	Classification	Pages
T640/1220	Budget (Budget speech 1989)	89 Feb 9	89 Mar 10	2014	Secret	308
T640/1221	Budget (Budget speech 1989)	89 Mar 13	89 Oct 30	2014	Secret	512
T640/1222	Budget (Budget 1989: Vehicle Excise Duty (VED))	88 Feb 22	89 Mar 3	2014	Confidential	177
T640/1223	Budget (Budget starters 1989)	88 Nov 28	89 Jan 19	2014	Confidential	223
T640/1224	Budget (Budget starters 1989)	89 Jan 20	89 Feb 10	2014	Confidential	170
T640/1225	Budget (Budget starters 1989)	89 Feb 13	89 Mar 23	2014	Secret	183
T640/1226	Budget (Budget 1989: revised package)	89 Feb 9	89 Mar 22	2014	Secret	213
T640/1227	Budget (Budget 1989: Finance Bill)	88 Jul 22	89 Feb 20	2014	Secret	204
T640/1228	Budget (Budget 1989: Finance Bill)	89 Feb 22	89 Jul 20	2014	Secret	165
T640/1229	Budget (Budget scorecard 1989)	89 Jan 12	89 Mar 3	2014	Secret	371
T640/1230	Europe (Harmonisation on taxation issues following the implementation of the single European market)	88 Oct 3	89 Jan 31	2014	Confidential	189
T640/1231	Europe (Harmonisation on taxation issues following the implementation of the single European market)	89 Feb 6	89 Apr 28	2014	Confidential	159
T640/1232	Europe (Harmonisation on taxation issues following the implementation of the single European market)	89 May 2	89 Aug 21	2014	Confidential	145
T640/1233	Europe (Harmonisation on taxation issues following the implementation of the single European market)	89 Sep 12	89 Nov 3	2014	Secret	156
T640/1234	Budget (Budget 1989: statement and unleaded petrol)	89 Feb 1	89 Feb 28	2014	Secret	383
T640/1235	Budget (Budget 1989: statement and unleaded petrol)	89 Feb 28	89 Feb 28	2014	Secret	163
T640/1236	Budget (Budget 1989: statement and unleaded petrol)	89 Feb 28	89 Mar 13	2014	Secret	356
T640/1238	Budget (Budget 1989: tax relief for private medical insurance)	89 Jan 12	89 Feb 6	2014	Secret	49
T640/1239	Europe (Conventional arms control in Europe)	89 Mar 8	89 Sep 29	2014	Secret	98
T640/1240	Budget (Budget 1989: financial sector borrowing requirements)	88 Aug 3	89 Feb 23	2014	Secret	313
T640/1241	Budget (Budget 1989: financial sector borrowing requirements)	88 Feb 23	89 Mar 1	2014	Secret	278
T640/1242	Budget (Budget 1989: financial sector borrowing requirements)	89 Mar 2	89 Mar 8	2014	Secret	252
T640/1243	Budget (Budget 1989: financial sector borrowing requirements)	89 Mar 8	89 Mar 11	2014	Secret	141
T640/1244	Economy (Ferranti International Signal PLC: suspension of trading)	89 Sep 12	89 Sep 25	2014	Secret	15
T640/1245	Budget (HM Customs and Excise: drug seizures)	89 Mar 2	89 Mar 8	2014	Confidential	47
T640/1246	Budget (Taxation of the drinks industry following the opening of European Community frontiers)	88 Dec 15	89 Oct 31	2014	Confidential	59
T640/1247	Europe (European Community fiscal frontiers controls and intra-European Community trade statistics)	88 Dec 14	89 Nov 8	2014	Confidential	77
T640/1248	Budget (Budget 1989: National Insurance Contributions)	88 Nov 4	89 Mar 13	2014	Secret	222
T640/1249	Budget (Budget 1989: public service pensions)	88 Dec 2	89 Feb 22	2014	Secret	140
T640/1250	Budget (Budget 1989: public service pensions)	88 Feb 22	89 Mar 7	2014	Confidential	103
T640/1251	Budget (Representations on the 1989 Budget)	88 Dec 27	89 Mar 13	2014	Unclassified	78
T640/1253	Budget (Budget 1989: foreign exchange gains and losses)	88 Dec 8	89 Mar 10	2014	Secret	131
T640/1254	Budget (Budget 1989: interest rate swaps)	88 Sep 1	89 Feb 20	2014	Confidential	87
T640/1256	Budget (Budget 1989: Value Added Tax (VAT) on non-domestic construction)	89 Jan 17	89 Jan 26	2014	Confidential	59
T640/1257	Budget (Budget 1989: Lloyd's indexed bonds)	88 Dec 21	89 Mar 3	2014	Secret	32
T640/1258	Budget (Budget 1989: note for the Queen and overseas post)	88 Mar 7	89 Mar 13	2014	Secret	99
T640/1259	Administration (HM Customs and Excise headquarters relocation)	89 May 30	89 Jul 12	2014	Confidential	87
T640/1260	Budget (Budget 1989: surplus stocks of duty-paid two and three star petrol)	88 Apr 18	89 Jul 3	2014	Unclassified	13
T640/1261	Budget (Report on sustainable development by Professor David Pearce, Special Environmental Economics Advisor to the Secretary of State for Environment)	89 Sep 6	89 Oct 20	2014	Confidential	49
T640/1264	Economy (Building and fire regulations)	88 Aug 11	89 Jan 12	2014	Confidential	45
T640/1265	Economy (The environmental benefits of unleaded petrol)	89 Jan 20	89 Feb 7	2014	Unclassified	19
T640/1266	Economy (Environmental labelling: publication of discussion document)	89 Jul 24	89 Jul 31	2014	Confidential	23
T640/1267	Europe (European Community fraud: debate on the Court of Auditors report 1987)	89 Feb 2	89 Mar 6	2014	Confidential	90
T640/1269	Public spending (Public Expenditure Survey (PES) 1989)	88 Oct 17	89 May 24	2014	Confidential	213
T640/1271	Public spending (Public Expenditure Survey (PES) 1989)	89 Sep 21	89 Oct 23	2014	Secret	162
T640/1272	Public spending (Public Expenditure Survey (PES) 1989: public expenditure Cabinet meetings)	88 Jul 11	89 Jul 30	2014	Secret	183
T640/1273	Public spending (Public Expenditure Survey (PES) 1989: public expenditure Cabinet meetings)	89 Jul 3	89 Jul 10	2014	Secret	65
T640/1274	Public spending (Pay settlement for Civil Service pay grades 5-7)	89 Sep 14	89 Oct 9	2014	Confidential	77
T640/1275	Public spending (London weighting and pay settlements for London Civil Servants)	88 Sep 16	89 Feb 23	2014	Confidential	155
T640/1278	International (Group of Seven (G7) meetings 1989)	88 Sep 16	89 Feb 23	2014	Confidential	155