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82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Michael Foot MP (referral to the Security Commission: Lance Corporal Aldridge) [background; rationale for referral] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Trade policy and Import Advisory Board) [Dept of Trade proposals "ill-thought-out and... likely to prove counter-productive"; Cockfield's proposal for an IAB "utterly wrong"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("Trade with Spain") [response to MT request for details of "our problems with Spain and the initiatives which we have taken"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (Army Graves Registration Team: award for recognition of work in Falkland Islands) [agreement to recommendation of lump sum payment] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses: the Alexander Paritsky case) [copy of a recent letter from Paritsky to his wife] [released Jul 2017]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joseph, Howe, Brittan) [“Long-term public expenditure: Education”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Public expenditure White Paper: net payments to European Community institutions”) [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation ("De Lorean") [Michael Havers, Robin Butler: phone conversation about RUC investigation into failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Havers, Ian Gow, Nicholas Winterton MP) [Government handling of Winterton's allegations against DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (IMF annual review of the UK economy) ["a clear endorsement of our current economic strategy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Alick Buchanan-Smith PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 13-14 December 1982") [statement to Parliament summarising the Council's discussions] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar frontier") [record of Parsons discussion with Morán] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("NATO, Gibraltar, Ceuta and Melilla") [report on González press conference announcing review of Spanish position on Gibraltar] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Gibraltar") [addressing issue of sovereignty in discussions with Spain] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: Governor of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar frontier") [report on border opening] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Treasury record of conversation (Howe, Biffen, Jenkin, Brittan, St John-Stevas, Du Cann, Barnett) [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General" - Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["incompatible with our objective of encouraging commercial behaviour in the nationalised industries"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [attached record & main points of Howe, Jenkin, Biffen, Brittan meeting with St John-Stevas, Barnett & Du Cann] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General") [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Role of Comptroller and Auditor General: Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [proposals for reaching accommodation with Norman St John-Stevas over his Private Member's Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (British Steel Corporation: Plan for 1983/86) [timing of Parliamentary debate on steel] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Industrial affairs") [British Steel Corporation - Jenkin statement to Parliament; NHS pay dispute; water industry pay negotiations] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Speaker's Office letter to No.10 (statement to Parliament by the Speaker of the House of Commons) [clarification of recent comments made by the Speaker in the House, regarding judiciary] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Gow notes of meeting (MT-West Midlands backbenchers) [released 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach Haughey (message on Haughey's departure from office) ["The last few months have not been easy"] [released 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKREP Brussels to FCO ("Hitachi Maxell") [UK seeking to support Japanese trade with EC] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Basing of Cruise Missiles and Arms Control") [US Cruise missile deployments to UK: "We will be very vulnerable politically to the charge of hazarding the UK for an American system"] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Dickson minute to Stephens (West Midlands MPs to visit MT tonight) [released 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Mount minute to MT (“NCB Chairman”) [MacGregor “seen as a hatchet man”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Shultz’s visit to Paris”) [“it seems that Shultz did a very competent job in repairing bilateral relations and enabling discussion to move forward”] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Visit of the American Secretary of State 16th-19th December 1982”) [East/West relations; defence/arms control; Middle East; agriculture; trade] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Industry: Robin Butler record of conversation (MT-Havers-Winterton) [“De Lorean”: “disturbing information about the company”] [released 2017]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Report of the Crown Agents Tribunal”) [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Interim Payments for Civil Legal Aid Work”) [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary [leave 9AM][released 2012]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [press coverage] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Parliamentary discussion of Intelligence matters”) [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: MT letter to Jim Craigen (closure of Metal Box factory in Glasgow) [investment and development] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Press summary”) [trade sanctions; social unrest; national debt] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 We	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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