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PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Draft Economic Declaration”) [does latest draft strike balance between the “need to express confidence about the future and the danger of appearing to be complacent”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Keynote Speech”) [draft “a good basis on which to work”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“Prime Minister’s Pre-Summit Meeting on 16 May”) [environment initiative; MT’s opening comments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“Prime Minister’s Pre-Summit Meeting on 16 May”) [economic declaration; draft statements on terrorism, democratic values; UK initiatives on industry and the environment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“London Economic Summit”) [Mitterrand wants all declarations to be “fully and thoroughly prepared before the event”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“London Summit: Possible British Initiative on the Environment”) [“There is a real need for a parallel international approach on research to better define the problems”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“Handling of Terrorism at the Summit and in the Ten”) [draft declaration: passage on liberation movements; immunity for crimes of violence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to MT (“Meeting on Economic Summit”) [statements on terrorism, democratic values; initiative on industry and environment; economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Helmut Kohl (additional German ministers at London Economic Summit) [“The trouble is, I am afraid, that a number of our colleagues consider that everything done at Summits should be on the basis of parity between national delegations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO minute to No.10 (“US Manned Space Station”) [UK participation in US space project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Kuwait to FCO (“Attacks on Shipping in the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Major-General Buhari letter to MT (visit of South African Prime Minister to the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [record of conversation: Norman Tebbit, Lord Kadoorie] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cradock, Wilson, S.Y. Chung, Lobo, etc) [UMELCO delegation] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food minute for Coles ("Subsidised Food Exports to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") ["your observations on Swiss role not well taken"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Hayward (future of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Defence Planning Committee, 16 May: Restricted Session") ["dominated by strong appeal to Dutch to stand firm on INF deployment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to Howe PS ("Sale of Tornado to Saudi Arabia") [need for ongoing confidentiality, with deal nearly clinched] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Education in Liverpool") ["Keith is still understating the appalling educational consequences of accepting Liverpool's proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Environmental Pollution - meeting on 17 May") ["[Patrick Jenkin] is absolutely right in saying that... the 'do nothing' option would be a political and economic disaster"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Environmental Pollution") [background; main issues; policy proposals; Economic Summit initiative; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Community Credit Rating on New York Markets") [risk of Standard & Poor downgrading: MT opposes Treasury's proposed amendments to EC Commission reply to S&P] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet Office: Community Affairs") [Foreign Affairs Council 14/15 May: outcomes; reform of EC financing/UK refunds; Finance Ministers meeting 12/13 May: outcomes; Transport Council 10 May: outcomes; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Allan Stewart PS letter to Howe PS ("Visit to Brussels 30 May 1984") ["to dicuss further used of... [EC] funds in Scotland"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("King Hussein's call on the Prime Minister") [comprehensive briefing on Middle East including concerns about USSR defence sales to Jordan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Indira Gandhi message to MT (North-South dialogue) [urgent need for global negotiations] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cockfield minute to MT ("British Leyland Corporate Plan - Need for Additional Finance") [opposes additional finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Heseltine PS letter to Tebbit PS ("Warshipbuilding") [future orders] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile") [defence sales to Chile; HMS Antrim] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1984") [pay awards for locally funded and for centrally funded higher education] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Lord Bethell letter to Howe (Afghanistan: Resettlement of Soviet Prisoners) [applications for political asylum: sponsorship & media coverage] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hailsham minute to MT (Nottingham magistrates' courts: offences relating to picketing) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Younger letter to Whitelaw (“Corporal Punishment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“London Economic Summit”) [current preparations: draft statements on terrorism and democratic values; UK initiative on industry and the environment; draft economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [opportunity to discuss Summit-related issues and wider political questions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Indira Gandhi message to MT (London Economic Summit) [need for fresh impetus on a “North-South dialogue”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the South Africa Prime Minister”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Mengistu message to MT (Botha’s visit to Britain) [appeal to MT to withdraw the invitation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Hong Kong”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe draft speech for Commons (“Debate on Hong Kong”) [MT annotations and notes] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The state of the Bonn coalition") ["Kohl's coalition in trouble on two fronts... donations to political parties, and the spreading strikes..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lamont letter to MT ("British Aerospace") [GEC takeover bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: "Lubbers has always been opposed to an unconditional yes. The next stage is for him to become convinced that the kind of conditional no which he has been contemplating will not secure the survival of his government"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Review of the Loan Guarantee Scheme") [DTI/Treasury dispute over financing & future of Scheme: "I remain very concerned about the costs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Tom King, Jenkin, Rees, Havers) ["Education in Liverpool": MT: "City Council's proposals... even worse than she had feared"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Raising Standards in Schools") ["a note about what we can learn from France and Germany about the school curriculum"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (improvement in the 16+ examinations) [update on policy development] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: No.10 note to Cabinet Office ("Environmental Pollution") [Nicholas Edwards register of interest] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Walker, Tom King, Younger, Ridley, Jopling, Rees, Lamont, Waldegrave, Robin Nicholson) ["Environmental Pollution"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: FCO letter to Cabinet Office ("London Economic Summit Initiative on the Environment") [draft speaking note for Cabinet Secretary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("European Negotiations") [budget imbalance: negotiations with the French; Fontainebleau European Council 25/26 June; MT meeting with Kohl in London on 9 June] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein) [Queen's visit; Arab/Israeli relations; Syria; Iran/Iraq; international terrorism; US/UK defence sales to Jordan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Industrial Sponsorship of Individual Students") [proposals for encouraging increasing uptake/award of sponsorships] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Mr Jha's Call on Prime Minister") [international economic issues, Punjab crisis, Sikh demonstration] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jha) [Punjab crisis, London economic summit, international trade, North-South dialogue] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1984 Pay Negotiations for Non-Industrial Civil Servants") [amount, structure & timing of offer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Rees ("VAT on Building Alterations: Effects on Education and Science") [additional costs for public sector due to widening of VAT base "not possible for the education programme"; inclusion of voluntary schools, universities & research councils in section 20 of VAT Act 1983 enabling refund of VAT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Planning Group minutes (1730Z) ("Escalation in the Gulf War") (NSPG 0089) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (“Coal Industry Dispute”) [“additional background”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: ?No.10 PMQ briefing (“Plan for Coal”) [Labour knew closure targets only possible by closing uneconomic pits] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Endurance") [miners' strike: power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Andrew Stewart MP-Jim Lester MP) [miners' strike: "Cost of Policing Miners' Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Younger letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike: "Cost of Policing Miners' Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus: Replies to Messages from the President of Cyprus and the Prime Minister of Greece”) [sends drafts; “our support for the UN… and the need not to exacerbate the situation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Welsh Office letter to Jenkin (“Urban Programme Review”) [“the outcome could have wider implications”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Draft Declarations on Terrorism and Democratic Values”) [revised drafts, Howe will make further amendments when he returns from Paris] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“London Economic Summit: Trade In Services and Shipping”) [need for recognition of “the importance of maintaining a liberal regime for shipping”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 note for the record (“London Economic Summit: Trade Union Delegation”) [MT “could not, of course, be expected to endorse all that the TUAC paper said”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International Debt”) [report by the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Trade and Industry to Treasury (“Rolls-Royce: V2500 Launch Aid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Paris to FCO (“Attacks on Shipping in the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Maputo to FCO (“Mozambique and Mr. Botha’s Visit to Europe”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Lagos to FCO (Nigerian reactions on Botha’s visit to Britain) [“part of a co-ordinated policy to give comfort to apartheid”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Michael Ancram letter to Whitelaw (“Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Conservative Research Department briefing (“The Conservative European Manifesto 1984”) [issues, positions] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT telegram to President Machel of Mozambique (Botha’s visit to UK) [“will be a working one … it in no way constitutes approval”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles ("London Summit: Programme") [timings, practical arrangements] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Special Appointments") [guidance for Departments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit (European Regional Development Fund) [report on outcome of Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("The Budget Negotiations") ["not making much headway... [UK] ready to work for a solution at the Fontainebleau European Council on 25/26 June"; suggested points for Ministers to make in bilateral contacts with European partners over the coming weeks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Leon Brittan ("TV Licences for Hotels") [formula for coverage of additional rooms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Barclay note to MT (licence fee in hotels) [fees for additional rooms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Jobs Seminar") [advice for Seminar on 25 May] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") [Tom King papers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Nationalised Industries: Board Appointments, Dismissal and Compensation") [conclusions from E(NI) committee; Treasury & sponsor Departments proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference in Eastbourne: Sunday 4 November") [arrangements for Q&A session at Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Export Policy") [DTI draft paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Pay Round So Far") [details of settlements to date; outstanding negotiations; merit pay; reformulating the pay factor] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("1984 Pay Negotiations for Non-Industrial Civil Servants") [merit pay; increments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (pay negotiations) [amount, structure & timing of offer; Review Bodies meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Handling of Review Body Reports") [alternative ways of reducing the effective increases over 12 months; managerial changes to improve efficiency] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review Body Reports and Related Matters") [pay offer for non-industrial civil service; handling of 1984 Review Body Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT to Governor Bank of England (his proposed group) [notes he has agreed with DTI and Treasury that group should not bind government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Barclay note to MT ("Lord Tonypandy") [miners' strike: George Thomas offers to mediate] [declassified 2014]

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