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Info only 82 Dec 3 Fr Chronology Major [Chronology] Copenhagen European Council (ended 4 Dec)
Text 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [draft press notice & notes for editors] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Overseas Students") [response to MT query about a '£10 million' fund she believed was available] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Michael Foot MP (Rhona Ritchie case: referral to the Security Commission) [announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Michael Foot MP letter to MT (Parliamentary Debate on Security) [concern that Debate will be delayed by referral of cases to Security Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: UKE Copenhagen telegram 420 to FCO (1250Z) ("European Council: Danish Position: CFP") [proposed lines to take for MT in response to Danish intransigence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Contracting out”) [reducing size of public sector] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("European Council: Danish position: CFP") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December: fisheries] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Pym record of conversation (European Council, 3/4 Dec) [handwritten notes of talks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing ("Notes for bilateral talks with Fanfani, Lubbers and Schlueter") [European Council, Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Further notes on own resources ceiling") [European Council, Copenhagen, 3/4 December: briefing note annotated by MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT record of conversation (European Council, 3 December) [MT handwritten notes] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (European Council, 3/4 December) [lines to be taken by Mitterrand & Kohl] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (European Council, 3/4 December) [expected lines to be taken by France, Germany & Italy] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Julian Bullard briefing to No.10 ("European Council: political cooperation subjects") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Howe PS letter to Lady Young PS ("Economic evidence to the TSRB") [request to review draft submission] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT message to President Reagan ("Economic summits") [thoughts on form and content of the forthcoming Williamsburg summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Briefing on Gibraltar and Belize") [advice on defense] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Gemayel letter to MT (Foreign Minister Amel's visit to the UK) ["We need your help to effect the withdrawal of all foreign armies"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("BSC future strategy") ["the most obvious candidate for closure is Ravenscraig... [but] We need to maintain our present capacity for the time being to secure a fair... slice of the total European market"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (successor to Sir Peter Carey) [views on MT's preferred candidate] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Letters to the Prime Minister from Dr Jeremy Bray") [case against closure of Ravenscraig steelworks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("BSC future strategy") ["It is very clear that the case for deferring the closure of Ravenscraig is not commercial and financial but political... the decision should not be at the expense of Llanwern"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Steel Corporation future strategy") [options for addressing ongoing losses, including closure of Ravenscraig] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute in reply to reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["I enclose a list of the PAC reports to which we are replying... with a summary... or the main conclusions and recommendations which appeared in the various Reports"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO telegram to UKE Belgrade ("Yugoslavia: Economic Crisis") [the G5 meeting in Paris on political, economic and financial aspects of the problem] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Temporary unemployment measures") [comments on Tebbit paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["Following your meeting on 14 October... I was asked to follow up six areas"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Notes taken by MT at European Council Dinner (Arab-Israeli conflict, Cold War, US, Latin America, EC Budget) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT message to Reagan (response to Reagan's message on plans for economic summits) [MT agrees with Reagan on purpose of economic summits; Williamsburg G7 meeting, 1983] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts: Armstrong minute to Butler (proposed creation of Ministry for the Arts, Heritage and Tourism") [MT "very much against" proposal] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall briefing for MT ("Falklands White Paper (OD(82) 72)") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Green Paper on Trade Union Democracy") [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [withstanding a coal strike] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must always bear the sensitivity of the pit closures issue in mind”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“New Mexican Government Measures”) [addressing economic crisis] [declassified 2014]
Text 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Barclay spokesman spoke off the top of his head][released 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Francis Pym minute to Lord Cockfield (“UK-China Air Services”) [forthcoming negotiations, future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Select Committee on Education Report) [recommendation to create new Ministry for Arts, Heritage and Tourism] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Howell letter to Cabinet Office (“London Transport”) [proposal for BR to take over LT underground] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Rossi PS letter to No.10 (“The South Atlantic Fund”) [support for disabled servicemen] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands: RAF Hercules flights via Brazil”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Copenhagen European Council, 3/4 Dec) [economy & internal market, enlargement, budget, fish; East/West; presidency conclusions] [declassified Feb 2015]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
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