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Date: 21 Feb 1983.

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83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Nationalised industry pay") [position of the three Scottish nationalised industries] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The revised voucher scheme") [Keith Joseph paper: "In many ways, the latest draft is worse than the first. It is obviously politically dangerous. It is also both unjust and unnecessary"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: King letter to Edwards ("Forward Look") [water charges] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: Howell PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Secretary of State's reply to the Fifth Report of the Commons Transport Committee: 'Transport in London') [copy of the reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, King, Whitelaw, Heseltine, Tebbit, Younger, Edwards, Brittan, Ingham & others) [water workers' strike] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan ("New financial target and performance aim for the electricity supply industry (England and Wales)") [details of - and subsquent disagreement between Lawson & Brittan over - proposed target] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Rifkind letter to Lamont ("The Future of Concorde") ["significant difference of view between ourselves and the French... They want the ultimate decision on whether Concorde should continue to fly to remain a matter for governments, while you wish to leave this to the commercial judgement of British Airways"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Brittan letter to Lamont ("The Future of Concorde") [draft PQ; draft reply to Chair of BA; "I regard British Airways' conditions [for the handover]... as completely unacceptable"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO telegram to UKHC Harare ("Matabeleland") [UK response to reports of atrocities carried out by Fifth Brigade] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Sales - Quarterly Report: October - December 1982") ["total value of contracts signed during the year... compared with the 1981 total... an increase of... 16% in real terms.. the general picture on prospects... in 1983 is optimistic"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Accelerated Closure of 405 Line TV Transmitters") ["Whatever we decide we are going to disappoint somebody"] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England; officials) [draft of 1983 medium-term financial strategy] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute toFrancis Pym ("BBC External Services Pay") [cannot accept proposal of removing pay from cash limits] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Acland, Bramall, Parsons, bin Shaker, Izziddin) [Non-Aligned Summit; Iran/Iraq; Arab/Israel; Syria/Lebanon] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Lunch for King Hussein") [Arab League Delegation; defence sales to Jordan; Iran/Iraq; Arab/Israel; Syria/Lebanon; Falklands] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 74 to FCO (0235Z) ("Australian General Election") [rates Labor's chances as better than evens] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: John Coles minute to MT ("Genscher/Colombo Proposals") [response to MT request for Lord President's advice on need to lay agreed text before Parliament, prior to its signature at European Council on 21/22 March; MT loath to proceed with UK signature of text] [released Dec 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Malaysia: Stephens note to MT ("Dinner for Prime Minister of Malaysia: 9 March") [queries whether dinner will be black tie; Coles recommends against; MT: 'I should have thought he would expect a formal dinner'] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("Corporal Punishment in Schools") [reaction to ECHR case: Keith Joseph proposing right for parents to exempt their children, rather than outright ban] [released Dec 2014]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Julian Ridsdale MP (support and publicity for Afghanistan) ["I entirely agree with you about the need to support Pakistan on the Afghanistan issue"] [released Jul 2018]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Walker note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 6 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1983) [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Yemen: MT letter to President Saleh of Yemen (earthquake in Yemen and aid) [released 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cabinet: Ian Gow minute for MT (Assistant Whip) [proposes Douglas Hogg] [released 2017]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [arrangements] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Pym PS (“Future of Hong Kong”) [MT: “This paper is pathetic”] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (“Israel’s arms exports”) [sales to Argentina and Guatemala] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Budget arithmetic”) [“overhanging all this is the question of the social security over-provision”] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Message to Falklands on 150th anniversary of British rule ("a brave and loyal people")
83 Feb 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2013]

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