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Text 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, Trade Secretary & Governor of the Bank of England) [Yugoslavia - Pym to ring Shultz expressing doubts as to US approach] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Low-Start Mortgages") [rent-based mortgages] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: House of Commons Committee Office letter to Members of Parliament ("Register of Members' Interests") [MT's entry] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Michael Foot MP (referral of Rhona Ritchie and Lance Corporal Aldrich cases to the Security Commission) [rationalisation of decision to refer Aldrich] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Lord Bridge (referral of Rhona Ritchie and Lance Corporal Aldrich cases to the Security Commission) [terms of reference; potential overlap with Prime case] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Michael Foot MP (reference of the Aldridge case to the Security Commission) [rationale for timing of the referral; officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Lord Bridge (referrals to the Security Commission: Lance Corporal Aldridge and Rhona Ritchie) ["formally to ask... [you] to investigate and report"; breaches of Official Secrets Acts 1911 & 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Imports Panic") ["if we encourage this panic... we shall be driven into... withdrawal from the [EC]": counter-strategy proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("The Law of Trespass") [consultation paper] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") ["a short survey of what we are doing to help the Afghans and to prevent Afghanistan from being forgotten"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: Rickett minute to Jonathan Spencer (draft reply to Blackburn on Round Oak Steel Works) [not sufficiently sympathetic] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF/IBRD Washington telegram to FCO (“IMF: Mexico - extended arrangement and first credit tranche”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO telegram 2206 to UKE Washington (1630Z) (East-West economic relations) [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Mr Nicholas Winterton MP and the De Lorean Company") [handling of his allegations of a Government 'cover-up'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Litigation against the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England") [Labour Party & local govt court actions claiming accusing Commission of failing "... to pay proper regard to the rules for the resdistribution of seats..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil prices in the long term") ["I attach a study, written by an interdepartmental group of officials... I think this is a useful document"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("EC/Spain") [Parsons/Marin record of conversation: "I drew attention to British support for early Spanish accession"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Five-Year Forward Look") [update on responses & proposed next steps] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Channon PS letter to No.10 (Five-Year Forward Looks) [Arts & Libraries] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Civil List audit") [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill implications] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Japanese machine tools") ["I am pleased to say that the talks have led to a confidential understanding which is acceptable to our industry"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: MT minute to Heseltine ("Merseyside initiatives") ["my warm congratulations on what you have achieved already"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir Antony Acland, 'C', Sir Brian Tovey, Sir Antony Duff) [review of the Secret Intelligence Service & GCHQ] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Fowler, Tebbit, John Sparrow, Ferdinand Mount) [unemployment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT ("DHSS Local Office Strike") [report; "both unions will be recommending a return to work... This has been a strike about staff numbers"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Egypt: President Mubarak message to MT (New Year message) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Strategy: Butler minute to MT ("Five-Year Forward Look") [Five Year plans "coming in thick and fast" from Ministers: "Ian Gow and I hope that you will not read these over Christmas"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health & Social Security: Fowler minute to MT ("Five Year Forward Look") [Department of Health & Social Security plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Heseltine minute to MT ("Five Year Forward Look") [Department of Environment plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Forward Look") [HMT plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Employment: Tebbit minute to MT ("Forward Look: Department of Employment Group") [Department of Employment plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Younger minute to MT ("Forward Look") [Scottish Office plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (MT invites Kohl to lunch at Chequers for discussion of international and EC issues) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Merseyside: MT personal minute to Heseltine ("Merseyside Initiatives") [congratulations on achievements so far] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Enoch Powell (possible meeting between MT and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [no plans for meeting; such a meeting would not affect government commitments on constitutional status of NI] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Lord Hailsham (thanks for sending copy of your poem) ["It is lovely and I shall treasure it"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Steel: FCO letter to No.10 (Hitachi Maxell) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Moore (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“very reluctant to agree to an extension of the foundry grant for another year”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lamont letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“concerned about the size of the price increases that would be necessary”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Scholar minute to Lawson PS (“Power Station Endurance”) [action to be taken] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson letter to Howe (“Power Station Endurance”) [cost of accelerated delivery exercise] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MoD (overboots for troops) [MT wonders if boots can be manufactured in UK] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (“The Prime Minister’s Visit to Northern Ireland - 22 December 1982”) [names and addresses] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Multimedia Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT visiting Northern Ireland
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (closure of Round Oak Steel Works) [MT concerned that draft reply to John Blackburn MP not sufficiently sympathetic] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 4039 to FCO (2350Z) (“Congress: the lame duck session”) [passed resolution on government funding] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Solicitor General minute for MT (“Interim Payments in Civil Legal Aid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (invitation to London) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-PLO”) [PLO Executive Committee Meeting] [declassified 2013]

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