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PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Westland Helicopters”) [persuade company to release more information to European consortium] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: John Wakeham note for Nigel [Wicks] (talk with Heseltine) [Heseltine thinks meeting on Friday a “Constitutional Necessity”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for Norgrove (“Financial Services Bill: Indemnity for designated agencies”) [Brittan & Hailsham at odds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Peter Brooke PS (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [“unattractive options for how the United Kingdom should vote”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Managing Director’s One Day Visit to London - 3 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Wicks minute (“Progress Chasing”) [MT requests review of arrangements for “progress chasing of ourstanding letters, remits to departments, actions, etc”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shultz) [Reagan-Gorbachev arms control talks: movement on Arab/Israel conflict] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Social Services minute to MT (“Local Government Finance”) [domestic rates reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison to MT (dinner celebrating 250th anniversary of No.10) [her speech “better, but not too much better than the Queen’s”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Follow-up to the European Council: possible statement on Geneva Summit & East/West”) [No.10 welcomes decision not to issue statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [policy advice for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute: Wicks to Powell ("State Visit of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany") [Kohl keen to accompany President Weizsäcker] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding") [consideration of measures to curb and control spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Lobbyists") ["... motion to confirm and clarify the responsibilities of Members with regard to the registration in the Register of Members' interests, and declaration, of their paid activities as Parliamentary 'advisers' and 'consultants'] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to Younger ("Falkland Islands Transport Project") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") ["we should take steps to prevent disclosure of passages in the diary (...) on grounds of public interest immunity"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Colombo telegram to FCO ("Sri Lanka/UNGA Falklands Vote") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: UKE Paris telegram 1111 to FCO (1224Z) ("Channel Fixed Link") [arrangements for MT/Mitterrand meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office briefing for meeting (“Westlands E(A)(85)72”) [background] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to French, German & Italian Defence Ministers (“Future of the European Helicopter Industry”) [must finalise European bid by Friday; “the appropriate committee of the cabinet meets at 3pm that day”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Financial Services Bill: Civil Liability of Designated Agencies & Competent Authorities”) [“case finely balanced”, embarrassing after JMB, be prepared to drop immunity clauses] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“European Council: Follow Up”) [draft Single Act preamble] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram 264 to FCO (0900Z) (“European Parliament: Intergovernmental Conference”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Professor Karl Carstens (Inter-Governmental conference) [Action Committee for Europe conclusions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Peter Brooke (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (A New Pollution Inspectorate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“Message to Mr. Gorbachev”) [Howe still wants to send message] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“ US/Soviet Arms Control Talks”) [“Cautious assessment of prospects for INF in next round at Geneva”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Shultz letter to MT (resumed talks with Soviet Union) [“we see eye-to-eye on almost all of the busy international agenda ahead”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Green Paper on Local Finance”) [Committee meeting:draft document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Lawson (“Johnson Matthey Bankers Briefing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: David Trippier letter to MT (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for November 1985") ["The improvement of the economy, evident since the beginning of the autumn, continues..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The French political scene: anxieties and ambitions") ["[The Right] are uncertain of holding on to their apparent [election campaign] lead, and torn by differences of personalities and policies."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [Government & GM haggling over price] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [financial strategies for closing the deal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Annual Review of Government funded R & D 1985") [draft Written PQ answer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 6th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [revisions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to MOD ("Lieutenant Sethia: Production of Diary") [MT agrees to take steps to prevent disclosure of passages on the grounds of public interest immunity] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Eminent Persons Group") [lines to take on discussion of Group's diplomatic strategy; lines to take on discussion of Nigeria with General Obasanjo] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mayhew minute to MT ("Crown Prosecution Service") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Review Body on Armed Forces Pay (Review Body's recommendations on London Weighting for the Armed Forces from 1 April 1985) ["the Government have decided to implement... in full"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wiggins minute for Unwin (‘Westlands’) [explains no EA meeting firmed up for Friday] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [GEC support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Woerner phone call) [German reservations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan letter to Cuckney (deadline for European consortium) [if no “viable package” by 4pm Friday 13 Dec HMG will reject NAD recommendation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [Heseltine raises Westland without notice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw minute to MT (“The teachers’ pay dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Teachers’ pay (England and Wales)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: MT letter to Shultz (discussions with the Soviet Union) [“we must keep in close touch”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Running Businesses in Government: The Next Steps Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Transport”) [“The pressure must be to reduce costs while maintaining or improving services”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (congratulations on her wedding anniversary) [“you are a great and ‘dynamic duo’”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Violence”) [MT to chair seminar on crime prevention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, MacGregor, Mayhew, Baker, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1986/87) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local authority capital expenditure") ["...proposals... in the Green Paper on Local Government Finance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3402 to FCO (2240Z) ("Argentina/Falklands") [Alfonsin "the best leader Argentina was likely to produce and he deserved support"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Lesotho relations") [report on alleged ANC plans to launch armed attacks from Lesotho] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Group of Eminent Persons) ["I was very pleased... to meet the members this morning and was greatly encouraged... I have already sent a message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) [reform in S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Pretoria ("Eminent Persons Group") [report on first meeting & meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("History of the Special Operations Executive in Scandanavia") [publication of book by Dr. Charles Cruickshank] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ex-King Constantine's Son") [Prince Paul's attendance at Sandhurst likely to provoke negative response from Greece] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez letter for MT (Spanish accession to the EEC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Heseltine letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link") [MoD representation on Intergovernmental Commission; compensation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL)") [venues for MT/Mitterrand meetings to announce choice of project & sign Treaty] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Channel Fixed Link") [request for draft speech & historical background research in preparation for announcement of project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Channel Fixed Link: Possible Conflicts of Interest") [guidance for officials assessing project proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: UKE Paris telegram 1121 to FCO (1717Z) ("Channel Fixed Link") [French media report on UK/French companies joint bid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Cuckney (European offer) [promises six extra Sea King orders & Europe only purchasing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wiggins minute for Unwin (‘Westlands’) [“today’s instalment”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [“The Ministry of Defence’s game-plan today”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“British Aerospace consortium”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [phone conversation with Cuckney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [Westland board rejects European offer at 3pm] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for Powell (‘Westlands’) [information from Whitmore] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (import declaration requirement for British sheepmeat) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Lord Hailsham minute for Whitelaw (“Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Dinner on Sunday”) [briefing from Norgrove & Griffiths] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Heseltine minute for Richard Luce (“Devonport Dockyard - Management Bid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“The Monday Morning Meeting”) [contacts with ministers: suggests MT “emphasise the importance which you attach to maintaining the closest possible contacts”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“United States position on nuclear arms control and SDI”) [MT “suspects that the United States might not ultimately insist on a 50 percent cut in throw weight, a ban on the upgrading of the SS-18 or a ban on Soviet GCLMs”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (1985 NATO communique) [“Our strategy of deterrence has proved its worth in preserving peace, and remains fully valid”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“likely to form a substantial category of claimant”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the Cable Authority) [proposals to address slow progress] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Fee Earning Businesses In Government”) [question of “whether control of gross running costs should continue to apply for fee earning activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT: “We must make it a success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [the forthcoming Cabinet discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: Sherbourne minute for MT ( Sun article on Neil Kinnock) [“He is, apparently, really feeling under pressure”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [report on her meeting with the Group; "they particularly asked me to to urge you to let them visit South Africa in January"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; reform process/dialogue; policy towards Zimbabwe over recent landmine explosions ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges he meet Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005]
Text 85 Dec 15 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary

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