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83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Public Purchasing") ["... arrangements by which... [MT] is alerted to potentially sensitive public purchasing issues in advance of their becoming public"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("YTS and unemployed 17-year-olds in 1984/85") [Manpower Services Commission should "squeeze the 90,000 unemployed 17-year-olds into some kind of occupation by 1985"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector") [transfer of funding & responsibilities from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("President Gemayel's Visit") [political analysis] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Luce, Chief of Defence Staff) [review of the Multinational Force's role] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 briefing for Howe ("Visit of the President of the Lebanon") [schedule] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Coal/electricity prices") ["idea of obliging the CEGB to pay a higher price for coal, thus enabling us to reduce the subsidy to the NCB. I attach a note which convinces me that this would be a bad idea"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Britsat Limited letter to No.10 (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: the BBC/Unisat Project) ["our alternative project has been thoroughly checked out... and on this basis we have recently submitted an unsolicited offer to the BBC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Publication of Report on Race Relations: Review of Personnel Policies and Procedures") [background/trade union attitudes; PQs; media handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD(D): Arms Control") [background; handling; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (Quarterly Report on Defence Sales: July - September 1983) ["Since 1979 defence exports have grown by an average of almost 10% a year in real terms, and there is every prospect that this will be repeated in 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Repackaging of Department of Trade and Industry Schemes") ["confusion created by the number of related schemes and services... we will be looking to standardise and simplify... We expect small firms to benefit particularly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: financing in 1984") ["difficulties can be foreseen for the latter part of 1984... We should not, however, forecast disaster too soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: State Department telegram to Shultz ("Bush-Alfonsin Bilateral Meeting") [published 2015]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: Heseltine minute to MT ("Gibraltar Dockyard") ["Bossano, the leading TGWU official... likely to fight the [General] election on a platform of opposition to closure... work must begin on preparing the dockyard for closure"; possible strike action] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("INMOS") [borrowing limit; timing of sale] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("Co-operative Development Agency and Regional Development Grants") [timing of legislation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Biffen PS ("Statement: Regional Policy White Paper") [text of Parliamentary announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (visit of Japanese Market Access Promotion Mission to UK) [Anglo-Japanese trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (ESPRIT) [funding & offsetting savings] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Research Council, 13 December: ESPRIT and other R & D Programmes") [funding & offsetting savings: disagreement between Lawson and Tebbit] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit ("ESPRIT") [funding & offsetting savings; "We must avoid provoking the European Parliament into taking punitive action against our 1984 budget (including our refunds)"] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Barclay minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: guidance to Tebbit on line to take at Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Hailsham letter to MT ("Restrictions Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges cautious approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Foreign policy: Hugh Thomas memoranda for MT (notes, records of meetings) [Hungary, disarmament, Gibraltar, Argentina, France] [released 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Ridley letter for Butler (informal Anglo-German discussions) [foreign policy, NATO and security issues] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: US Ambassador to London, Charles Price, letter to MT (MT's comments on Anglo-American relations at UPITN headquarters) ["your warm reference to our friendship and understanding was very much appreciated"] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Germany: Adam Ridley letter to Robin Butler (HMG special advisers meet with German representatives to discuss summit arrangements) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: Alison minute to MT ("Teas for New Members") [arrangements for further meetings with new MPs] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	China: Cockfield minute to MT ("Visit to China 19-29 November 1983") [report of Cockfield's visit to China] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Eurogroup Film") [brief for recording of NATO Eurogroup film] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Industry: Engineering Industries Council record of conversation (MT-Engineering Industries Council) [problems and prospects of the engineering industry] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (Japanese trade mission to the UK) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT letter to Cardinal Basil Hume (present state of East-West relations) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Defence: MT letter to Cranley Onslow (Government's nuclear defence policy) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Leaders”) [“the sooner we can prevent the idea of a PLA presence in Hong Kong taking root the better”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“concern about where the present course of action is leading”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong Calls”) [“There was no request from the Chinese side for explicit affirmation of the premise that sovereignty and the right of administration over Hong Kong would pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Hong Kong”) [Lee Kwan Yew’s view “that any approach to the Chinese requires a mixture of firmness and realism”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Cradock despatch (“The Hong Kong negotiations”) [“For the Chinese the political objective of resuming sovereignty including the right of administration has been paramount”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Lord Nugent letter to MT (reform of the Obscene Publications Act 1959) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Tebbit minute for MT (export credit for Brazil) [agrees with Howe] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (tilt in the money market yield curve: interest and exchange rates) [MT wants to discuss with Walters] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: David Owen letter to MT (the British Aerospace request for launch aid) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local Government policies”) [press briefing and lines to take on leak] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3732 to FCO (2315Z) (“Argentina”) [Vice-President Bush visiting Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]

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