Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [PM greets crowds at No.10; Tebbit furious about E record][released 2012]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS3/1/2
Editorial comments:	Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking:	Major
Word count:	138
Themes:	Defence (Falklands), Monetary policy, Pay

Thursday 17th June 1982

Sent payments (by MPW check) to McAnnelly for ¢55 62 56/100 as final payment for World Bank bonds

Hercules had 14 refueling top ups to fly to Falklands! Prisoners loaded into the Canberra + Norland - but argues don’t want them coming in Brit Ships

PM shakes hands with crowds at No.10

4.30 Tebbit + PM on Wages Councils

NT had been furious about E record of SB [Supplementary Benefit] and PM’s draft of SB announcement - he got it changed and toned down - apparently because he supported PM on the N Ireland Bill (ie no guillotine on her own backbenchers). Defensive on Wages Councils but agreed to put forward some for abolition.

ACAS report would take one year - but then we could leave it on the table until the next election.