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Text 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Supply of Kinsale Gas from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland") [Memo of Understanding: press release] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of the New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs and Overseas Trade") [EC/NZ butter quota, steel contract] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: MT letter to Kinnock (Parliamentary debate on the NHS) [response to Kinnock request] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Kinnock letter to MT (Parliamentary debate on the NHS) [request] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health letter to No.10 (Griffiths report on NHS Management Inquiry) [comments on the Report; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Deputy Prime Minister Ramadhan of Iraq message to MT (gratitude for visit) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 letter to Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs Ltd (sale of BT and Kleinwort, Benson shares to US) [request for Goldman Sachs views on opportunities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Channon letter for Raison ("Turkey: Diesel Electric Locomotives") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sri Lanka") [advice/draft reply for request from leader of Tamil United Liberation Front to meet with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury briefing to No.10 (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [outstanding issues and draft paper for Cabinet] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rees PS letter to No.10 (“Public Expenditure”) [draft Paper for Cabinet] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey”) [priority Ministries to target for savings] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note to MT (Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey) [briefing: key points] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [Defence & Social Security; MISC group] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Raising standards in schools") [proposed draft MT reply to Keith Joseph proposal: "very sceptical about the proposal which amounts to giving people more for doing competently what they are paid to do anyway"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Brief for Chairman of British Rail") [comments on revised draft: "We specifically agreed that the sentence ruling out major route closures should be deleted"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Civil Service "Single Outside Analogue" Grades") ["We cannot [yet] decide on our general policy for the future... the right course would be to continue in general with the present arrangements for a further year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine) ["INF": timetable for delivery of cruise missiles to UK & W. Germany] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Genscher) ["Genscher's meeting with Gromyko": deployment of cruise missiles in W. Germany] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Parkinson minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [MT against the proposal to set up a Ministerial Working Group for what she regards as "a routine matter"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: FCO minute to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Washington”) [flowers for MT from the Jordanian Ambassador] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Helmut Schmidt) [INF deployment, NATO Secretary-General, United States, international finance, European Community, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation: Inland Revenue letter to No.10 ("Distribution of Income") [effects of 100% top tax rate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation: Turnbull minute to MT (Inland Revenue calculations on effect of 100% top tax rate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to MT ("Strikes in Essential Services") [suggests imposing minimum statutory procedural arrangements whose breach would lead to loss of immunity] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's response to new Irish ideas] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Sunday Lobby") [report on Lobby meeting; press interest in Parkinson; media claims that MT's luck may be running out] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Cecil Parkinson: "Love affair puts Parkinson's future in doubt" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays)
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Terrorism: MT letter to Reagan (dealing with international terrorism) [MT expresses "disappointment" at decision of Californian court to prevent extradition of IRA member to UK] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Shepherd minute to MT ("Highlights") [key events, Ministerial media appearances] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to Armand Hammer (opposing unitary taxation in the US: thanks for help) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour Party: MT letter to Foot (Foot's retirement as Leader of the Labour Party) ["I have greatly valued the frankness and confidence with which we have been able to conduct our personal business as Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to Terence Beckett, CBI Director-General (use of unitary taxation in the US) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Arts: MT letter to William Golding (congratulations on winning Nobel Prize for literature) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to Heseltine (“Arms Control and Disarmament”) [new Ministerial sub-committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Visit by Chinese Foreign Minister”) [transcript of press conference] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Treasury record of conversation (“Record of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to FCO (“Meeting with the Unofficial Members of EXCO”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Youde, EXCO) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Paul Channon letter to Lord Gowrie (imports of books from Argentina) [MT-approved waiver on ban] [declassified 2013]
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