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PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Reform of the Police Complaints System") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Football Association and Football League Representatives-Ministers) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Tebbit-Lamont-Gregson-Warry) ["British Leyland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Rees letter to Jopling ("Transfer of Costs of Early Retirement to Deparmental Votes") [redundancy implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Ingham minute to MT ("Robert Maxwell - Drugs") [Maxwell paper, following up meeting with MT, calling for a Drugs Supremo and legislation to confiscate gains] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 185 to FCO (0830Z) ("Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPS): Greek Reactions") [government present IMPS settlement as a diplomatic triumph, opposition criticism of Greece coming off badly] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 188 to FCO (1120Z) ("Greek Politics") [New Democracy boycott of Sartzetakis presidency, possible early elections] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Schoolteachers") [rejects Keith Joseph/George Younger joint proposals for performance-related pay; wider public sector context; diversion of public expenditure savings; pay negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay negotiations; countermeasures against ongoing industrial dispute; Government legal complaint of privilege against teachers in Scotland; teaching standards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Soares letter to MT (accession of Portugal to the EC) [thanks to UK on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Lord Young PS ("Deregulation") [MT speaking note used at European Council meeting, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 315 to FCO (1606Z) ("European Council: German Reactions") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 274 to FCO (1713Z) ("European Council, Enlargement and IMPs: French Press and Other Reactions") ["extensive and generally positive to the successful conclusion of negotiations for Spanish and Portugese accession"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 329 to FCO (1530Z) ("European Council: Italian Press Comment") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1215 to FCO (1600Z) ("Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation") [action to follow-up MT statement at European Council, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi telegram 433 to FCO (0620Z) ("Westlands") [rival candidates; aid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Jedda telegram 187 to FCO (0822Z) ("Call on Saudi Oil Minister") [Patrick Wright, Yamani: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Timothy Raison letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka") [Samanala Wewa project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to South East Asia: Speeches") [early drafts made available, to form basis of translations and press releases] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [MT seeks advice of Howe & Heseltine on advisability of stop-off en route to, or on way back from, her tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Robin Ibbs (Prime Minister's Visit to Malaysia) [Single Cell Protein project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Richard Luce PS letter to V. W. Miller (Prime Minister's Visit to Brunei) [Brunei Chinese] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Chairman of the General Electric Company PLC, Jim Prior letter to MT (Prime Minister's tour of South East Asia) [details of "a number of projects in which GEC are deeply interested"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine minute to Whitelaw ("The Royal Dockyards") [outline of intended policy & legislative requirements, in making case for inclusion of Bill in 1985-86 legislative programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chairman of the Post Office letter to MT (industrial dispute) [explanatory note for MPs, of ongoing issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to Fowler PS (reply to Mr Dale Campbell-Savours MP: future of benefit entitlement for 16 and 17 year olds) [revised draft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL)") [comments on draft Guidelines for proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia, 4-13 April 1985") [general brief] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT (energy savings in the Government estate) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison note for MT (talk with Michael Eaton) [possible appointment to NCB Board; ways to keep him in London] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [legal objections to proceeding with policy amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Nicholas Scott letter to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“It could be argued that in effect we are asking the United States to return murderers”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Charles Price telegram to Bob Dole (visit to London by Republican leadership) [request to reschedule] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Hailsham (VAT Tribunals: transfer of responsibilities) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Falklands Trooping Contract”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Prosecution of Offences Bill: Meeting with the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary, 3 April 1985”) [“This battle in Parliament might win the power to obtain sentencing guidelines or might be lost. It would be better to achieve the same by a safer route”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 briefing for MT ("Rates - Line to take") [briefing for PMQs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler ("Local Authority Finance") ["The Community Charge is, I believe, a winner. But I am nervous lest it is accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted, for example: 'Tories hit the poor again'"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Havers letter to Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies - a Trust for London") [better to use an existing organisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Younger PS to No.10 ("Rates and revaluation in Scotland") [Scottish conference resolution; MT - "We can't take IMMEDIATE action"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (Football hooliganism: comments from The Magistrates' Association) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Football Spectator Violence") [draft letter to the Chairman of the Football Association on hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Monckton minute to MT ("Home Improvement - A New Approach") [comment on revised draft Green Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin) [large scale household survey: Rate Support Grant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (duties & responsibilities of civil servants in relation to Ministers) [request for advice on handling of reply to letter from Austin Mitchell MP, querying 'confusing' Cabinet Office guidance; No.10 of the view that query was politically motivated and advise reply by Lord Gowrie] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("VE Day: Representation in Moscow") [proposals; MT/Gorbachev exchange of messages] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft (EFA)") [consideration of UK's defence needs, and relative merits of alternative options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [MT agrees to visit Saudi Arabia on her way back from South East Asia; Defence briefing attached] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (European City of Culture) [UK representation at inauguration ceremony in Athens] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Biffen, Michael Havers, Nicholas Scott) ["School Teachers": pay; teaching standards; industrial disruption; contracts & conditions of service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Education and Training for Young People") [final version of White Paper on Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("East-West Relations") [Soviet academic paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Kuala Lumpur telegram 214 to FCO (1100Z) ("PM's Visit: Air Services Dispute") [Mahathir Mohamad, David Gillmore: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Lord Avebury (Prime Minister's tour of South East Asia) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: John Murray letter to MT (Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka) [former member of Ceylon Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Geoffrey Dickens MP letter to MT ("Far East Visit") [request for 3 flights per week from Singapore to Manchester] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Saudi Arabia") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("Visit by the Prime Minister to Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [lines to take on proposed sale] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office letter to FCO ("Proposed Science and Technology Agreement with Indonesia") [Robin Nicholson outlines his reservations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("New Burdens on Local Government") [identifying equivalent savings; guidance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 1st (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note for the record (points made by working miners at working miners’ dinner) ['Some managers, out of a desire to conciliate the militants, were failing to protect the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [list of responses to invitations for inscriptions] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [need to “save the situation in Scotland”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Michael Havers letter to Brittan (“UK-US extradition treaty”) [“The retention of Article IV should not … be seen as essential to satisfy our obligations under the Convention”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe minute to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“There is no way of discovering to what extent the Americans want to press their demand without being frank with them about the difficulties it would cause us”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Airports Policy”) [issues to be considered by the Sub-Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: C.E. Needham letter to MT (“Fishing Off the Falkand Islands”) [headlines, economy, foreign debt, human rights, armed forces, Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Education & Jobs” & “Education & Training for Young People”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
Text 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Hailsham, Biffen, Havers, Wakeham, Lord Denham) [“Lenient Sentences”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Heiser letter to Armstrong ("Local Government Finance Studies") [tight timetable for working up Waldegrave recommendations for May; need for cooperation among departments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [need to take account of arts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [need to establish a baseline] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Geoffrey Howe minute to Paul Channon ("Carriage of Aid Cargoes to India") [aid agreement is not being respected at the operating level] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit-Moore-Gregson-Warry) ["British Leyland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit manuscript minute to MT (Austin Rover and Honda) [draft memorandum of understanding, "for your eyes only at this stage"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to Butler ("Austin Rover and Honda") [comment on draft press statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: HM Customs & Excise letter to Barney Hayhoe ("Threatened "Work to Rule" - Clearance of Passengers/Accompanied Cars") [situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Drug Misuse") ["you are growing increasingly concerned... recent initiatives... [and] how I propose to carry the matter forward"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Community Budget") [inter-governmental agreement to finance 1985 overrun & establish 1985 Budget: draft telegram to UKE Bonn urging no W. German interference in European Council ratification of own resources decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi telegram to FCO ("PM's Visit") [proposed visit to Indira Gandhi's memorial] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said (Prime Minister's tour of South East Asia) [MT explains why she is unable to meet the Sultan and why she is meeting King Fahd; invites Sultan to meet with her in London] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("India: Westland Helicopters") [line to take on potential trade deal in light of media reports of Westland's financial difficulties] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Civil Aviation: Malaysia") [Malaysian tax issue threatening UK/Malaysia talks on air services] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia: Briefing") [summary of revisions; related items attached] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Government Chief Whip note to No.10 (Prime Minister's Visit to Asia) [notification of Betty Boothroyd MP trip to Sri Lanka] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Chair of United Scientific Holdings PLC letter to MT ("Indonesia - Alvis/Scorpion Project") [MT asked to lend support to prospective deal during her visit to Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Director of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust telegram to Oliver Letwin (Malaysian students) [activities of the Trust & recent initiatives by Malaysian government] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: British Aerospace letter to No.10 ("Malaysia") [BAe/Malaysian Airlines deal; BAe/AIM collaboration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to MT ("MISC 111") [pre-Cabinet meeting to discuss Social Security Review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howe minute to MT ("UK Continental Shelf: Production Controls") [risk of OPEC retaliation against UK interests; ramifications of Government introducing controls on UK oil prices; political/economic arguments for controls; royalties in cash rather than kind] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker PS letter to No.10 (US oil reserves and future production) [assessment, following MT/Walker meeting with Sheikh Yamani] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to London by President of the Commission") [scheduling of meetings with MT & Howe] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Forthcoming bilateral summits with the FRG, France and Italy”) [guests] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: David Price letter to MT (Harland Wolff refrigerated ships) [invitation to act as sponsor] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Hurd minute to MT (“Visit to the United States 24 March - 2 April”) [“The level of general public interest in Irish matters is low”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order White Paper”) [statutory power to disperse crowds] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (R&D priorities across Government) ["There is currently no formal mechanism for taking a collective view... I believe we need to... find a way of offering Ministerial guidance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Kohl message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) ["Economic issues should again be at the forefront of our discussions"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (thanks for report on Local Authority Finance) ["Your contribution ... has had precisely the effect which I hoped for. ... fresh eye ... incisive approach ... I hope that you will keep a fatherly eye on the infant's development"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Value for Money Seminars") [MT: "D.H.S.S. has enough on its hands already"; suggests running seminar with a different department] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of the Football Association, Bert Millichip (football hooliganism) [FA and Government actions to tackle football violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Jerry Wiggin (Westland helicopters) [replacement of RAF Puma & Wessex helicopters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: George Younger minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") ["The question of the benefits payable to the dependants... is emotive, and changes made in one scheme for particular circumstances... tend to have a ripple effect. The problem of where and how to stop..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Howe minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") [objection to Rees minute being sent to MT prematurely before FCO/Treasury bilateral discussions concluded; comments on officials' report & thoughts on way forward] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of United Technologies Corporation (RAF Basic Trainer Aircraft) [background to Government's decision to place the order with Short Brothers, Belfast] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("British Airways Flotation") [progress report; impact of Laker Airways liquidator anti-trust law suits in US courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Capital Spending and Infrastructure") [recommendations; MT suggests that she circulate a paper to Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister Soares (Accession of Portugal to the EC) [message of congratulations on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister González Márquez (Accession of Spain to the EC) [message of congratulations on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Enlargement") [conclusion of negotiations: "how the outcome compares with the objectives identified at... [MT's] ad hoc meeting of Ministers last September... satisfactory results for UK interests"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Mr Michael Nightingale, Chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Corporation to the Prime Minister") [request for MT to raise issue during her visit to Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Mercury: Procurement Policy and Telecommunications") [case for Departmental procurement decisions in favour of Mercury, in interests of "establishment of vigorous competition"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Customs Relief on Imports of Defence Equipment") [if ECJ rules against Britain end result "could only be to reduce the resources available for the European Allies to devote to defence"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Rees minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Mrs Hackett, wife of working miner (condemns intimidation of working miners) ['The miners who stood up for their right to work were defending a fundamental privilege of a free people'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Ricketts (Youth of the World statue) [MT’s message for inscription] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Chairman of the BBC letter to Brittan (treatment of capital expenditure in published accounts) [will obtain an independent opinion on whether practices need to change] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (value of “political meetings” in building trust) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (her conversation with President Machel in Moscow) [shares his concern at failure of SA fully to support Nkomati Accord] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office telegram 137 to UKHC Kuala Lumpur (1854Z) (Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report on the General Belgrano) [early draft obtained, and conclusions forwarded in strictest confidence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mahathir Mohamad, Acland, Gillmore, Vereker, Ingham, CB Benjamin, Tan Sri Chong, Tengku Razaleigh & others) [air services; commercial projects; Malaysian students in UK higher education; Malaysian trade issues with EC; Cambodia; Brunei; Antarctica; China; Hong Kong Agreement] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 6 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Kuala Lumpur record of conversation (MT, Denis Thatcher, David Gillmore, Butler, Powell, Benjamin, Vereker, Ingham, Committee of the British-Malaysian Industry and Trade Association) [link between UK support for Malaysian student & commercial interests; airline services dispute; UK investment in Malaysia; Malaysian commercial interests & how best to foster them] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Chairman of UKAEA”) [“should AEA be allowed a significant role in non-nuclear manufacturing?”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Leon Brittan minute to Douglas Hurd ("1984 Review of Security Policy in Northern Ireland") [PIRA activity, counter-measures on the mainland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to Peter Rees ("The 1984 Review of Security Policy in Northern Ireland") ["determining the right numbers of police and Army" to include political judgment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT (Meeting with the President of Cyprus: objectives and arguments) [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou: 7 April: Constitutional Arrangments") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Kyprianou of Cyprus) [UN negotiations over Cyprus] [declassified Jul 2021]
Text 85 Apr 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Brunei briefing for MT (0824Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Brunei") [arrangements; programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lee Kuan Yew) [wide-ranging conversation over lunch] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 8 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Announcement by Gorbachev of moratorium on deployment of medium range weapons”) [“each of the systems will prove by strength of example and not by strength of arms which of them is better”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: International Chamber of Commerce letter to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit") ["businessmen hope for clear and concrete actions from governments in overcoming closely-linked trade and monetary problems"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (National Assembly and Municipal elections) ["I wish you and your government every success in tackling the many challenges that still remain"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Privatisation") [timing of draft paper circulation to E(A) committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Brunei record of conversation (0836Z) (MT, Hassanal Bolkiah) [constitutional monarchy; Brunei investment in UK; health & education; Shell petroleum; CHOGM] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (main economic assumptions for use in reports of the Government Actuary) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: John Moore PS letter to No.10 (“ICI Case”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill and Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme”) [eligibility of striking miners for pensions accrued during periods on strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Brittan letter to US Attorney General (UK/US extradition treaty) [would be “very difficult” to agree to US request for removal of Article IV on refusal to extradite where offence is punishable by death] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") [74 items since beginning of 94] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [reservations about the baseline] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 692 to FCO (1030Z) ("Hong Kong Agreement: Joint Liaison Group (JLG)") [Executive Council position on composition of JLG] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Note for the Record") [Antony Acland, Kusumaatmadja, Alan Donald: China; Vietnam/Kampuchea; ASEAN; East Timor] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Suharto) [Indonesia's long-term development strategy; co-operation with UK on Indonesian strategic defence industries; ASEAN; Cambodia/Vietnam/China; East/West relations; role of trade in developing countries; Philippines; East Timor; oil prices] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Economic Ministers of the Indonesian Government, Acland, Butler, Vereker, Ingham, Benjamin, Alan Donald) [MT thoughts on open trading system, sound finance & democracy; employment & inward investment in Indonesia; oil prices] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Your Press Conference: Indonesia") [arrangements; issues; draft opening statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT (1700Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [Sikh extremism in UK; Westlands contract] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Chairman of the Channel Tunnel Group letter to MT (Channel Fixed Link) [request to meet with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling minute to MT (“1985 CAP price fixing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Provisional Estimates of Monetary Aggregates: Banking March 1985”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the Football Association, Bert Millichip letter to MT (football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Hailsham letter to Peter Rees ("Assassination and Death in Service") [proposed extension to definition of 'outrage' to cover any judges murdered in the line of duty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Electricity Supply Industry Pay") [Electricity Council pay negotiations with trade unions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [proposals for gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Jeddah briefing for MT (0850Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Riyadh 14 April") [Jordanian-Palestinian agreement; Iran-Iraq; Sudan; Lebanon; oil; Tornado; British Caledonia; Consular cases; trade; Fahd invite to London; delegation of MPs to Riyadh] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Fowler PS (Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka) [contract for supply of national passports to Sri Lanka] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Habibie) [Indonesian Minister of Technology: science & technology agreement; defence sales] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 222 to UKHC Colombo (1715Z) ("Channel Four interview with Rajiv Gandhi") [Sikh extremism in UK; Punjab; Pakistan; Afghanistan] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: 1985 World Economic Outlook”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“Discussions on Modified Colliery Review Procedure”) ['NCB and unions agree to joint sub-committee to discuss colliery review procedure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Biffen letter to Walker (“Coal Industry Bill”) [Walker's proposed additional provisions; Biffen urges further consideration and time for discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Press Summary”) [headlines, economy, foreign debt, human rights, armed forces, Falklands] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Timothy Flesher minute to Rees PS (Running Costs Targets) [should be introduced as of 1985 survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Timothy Flesher minute to Rees PS (Public Expenditure Survey) [options for reductions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Walters minute to MT ("Private Rented Sector Deregulation") [deregulation of rents and security of tenure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Lear Fan") [development of new aircraft at Aldergrove: concerns about viability of project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Nicholson minute to Addison ("The Use of Contingency Funds by the Research Councils") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [comment on Walker's proposals for gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi telegram 013 to UKHC Colombo (1230Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to India") [Tamil terrorists; Punjab; Sikh extremists in UK] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1250 to FCO (1950Z) ("US/Saudi Arabia: Defence Sales") ["aim is to reassure the Saudis of continued US support despite the delay in submitting arms sales proposals to Congress"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MODUK telegram to UKHC Colombo (1015Z) ("Defence Sales to India") [supplementary briefing on Marconi for MT meeting with Rajiv Gandhi during her tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (Amnesty International reports of Indonesian Government human rights abuses) [asks if MT raised issue with Suharto during her visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 414 to UKHC New Delhi (1830Z) ("Arab/Israel: Murphy's Mission") [briefing for MT tour of South East Asia & Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi (1830Z) ("Sudan") [details of coup & Saudi reactions: briefing for MT tour of South East Asia & Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO letter to Cabinet Office ("Possible Science and Technology Agreement with Indonesia") [addressed Robin Nicholson concerns about not being consulted on lines to take in FCO briefing for MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Post Office Industrial Relations") [details of settlement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 417 to UKHC New Delhi (1830Z) ("Petrochemicals") [Gulf access to European markets: briefing for MT meeting with King Fahd during her tour of South East Asia & Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill and Mineworkers’ Pension Bill”) [recommends against amending mineworkers' pension entitlement in Bill: 'The big prize is still a restructured coal industry...The Luddites should be given no ammunition to hinder that process'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 292 to FCO (0055Z) (“Cyprus”) [“solution of the Cyprus problem is as close as it has ever been”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 message for MT (Foreign Affairs Committee report) [Michael Alison has secured early draft; “Opposition members are likely to conclude it is a white-wash”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 message to Butler (Foreign Affairs Committee report) [“Opposition members are likely to conclude it is a white-wash”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury briefing for No.10 (“Civil Service unions: ballots for industrial action”) [pay negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury report (“Monthly Monetary Report: March-June”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT (US policy on Nicaragua) ["Its intentions of overthrowing the Nicaraguan government and destroying the Sandinista revolution are clear"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Compensation For Civil Servants Killed By Terrorists") [proposed amendments; summary of matters for decision; effect of inflation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Riyadh telegram 001 to UKHC New Delhi (1215Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") [arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (Westlands WG30 helicopter contract) ["Westlands are puzzled as well as greatly concerned by some of the points which you raised"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Jayewardene) [conversation on "several different occasions during her visit": Tamils; UK aid for Samanala Wewa; Cable & Wireless/Sri Lanka telecommunications] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Tiruchelvam, Antony Acland) [MT meets with the only elected member of the Tamil United Liberation Front] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“Coal Board Take Action on Intimidation”) ['Our management will not tolerate any intimidation of individual workmen or groups of employees'] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation (0635Z) (MT, Rajiv Gandhi) ["Prime Minister's Meeting with Gandhi"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Fahd) ["Tornado for Saudi Arabia"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Rajiv Gandhi) [Westlands helicopter contract] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Fahd, Antony Acland, Crown Prince Abdullah & others) [Arab/Israel; Iran/Iraq; Lebanon; Afghanistan] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 82/83”) [“a gradual movement towards a small Labour lead”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Limited Sentences”) [Debate on the Prosecution of Offences Bill: Lords resistance to enhancing Attorney General’s powers on appealing lenient sentences] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Rees minute to MT ("Visit to Hungary: 9-11 April") [observations on his meetings with government Ministers; "Szuros... implied in particular that Gorbachev saw a link between the poor performance of the Russian economy and foreign affairs, particularly arms control"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Letwin minute for MT ("Abolition of GLC: Trust for voluntary bodies") [supports Baker proposal - "sensible method of defusing what could otherwise turn into a nasty revolt"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [agricultural R&D, redundancy costs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Gowrie minute to Peter Rees ("1985 Public Expenditure Survey") [concerned at delay in finalising guidelines] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Efficiency Unit ("Value for Money Seminars") [suggests running seminar with a department other than DHSS] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("UK/Soviet Parliamentary Contacts: IPU Return Visit") [timing of visit, proposed delegation lead] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") [key issues, for Cabinet meeting on 25 April] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Briefing HM Ambassador Washington about the Dialogue") [decision to keep Ambassador fully informed about state of play] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC and the Future of the Government Pipeline System (GPSS)") [endorses examination of scope for efficiency savings within present management structure in context of "longer term options... including privatisation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Development of the European Community") [analysis of French & W. German thinking; draft agreement on political cooperation; UK objectives for internal market; EC decision-taking procedure; role of the European Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to David Miller of J.C. Penney (message of UK government support for British Promotion to J.C. Penney Company) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Moore-Walker) ["Gas Industry Privatisation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Jeddah telegram 214 to FCO (1025Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: Saudi Press Coverage") ["Most newspapers spoke in very warm terms of the UK and of the Prime Minister personally"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to South-East Asia, Sri Lanka, India and Saudi Arabia") [follow-up actions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Michael Palliser (Prime Minister's Visit to Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei) [Samuel Montagu business activities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Geoffrey Pattie ("Managing Director of Girobank") ["I cannot... accept that... we have to appoint a new Managing Director whilst all the options on privatisation remain open"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Social Security Review"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“1985 CAP price-fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Banjul telegram to FCO (“The Gambia and the IMF”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Heseltine minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (“Coal Industry Bill”) [need 'to present the Bill as a financial framework within which we expect the Board to work'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ingham minute to MT (“The Trade Union Centenary”) [public opinion on miners' strike; Ingham considers it unwise 'to rub the NUM’s nose in it [i.e. their defeat]'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Non-industrial Civil Service pay negotiations”) [“Four out of the eight unions have now held ballots with the view of obtaining a mandate for strike action”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“MISC66”) [“Sticking on 4.4% would be wrong: it implies that the only way to get an increased pay offer is to strike”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (“Review of Early Retirement Arrangements”) [“fundamental revisions of existing terms and conditions of service”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Howe minute to MT (“Review of Vienna Convention and Reply to Foreign Affairs Committee Report on Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges: Command Paper”) [repercussions of Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Lusaka to FCO (“President Kaunda’s message”) [his comments on West policy towards South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO minute to No.10 (“40th Anniversary of the UN”) [ceremony arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute to FCO (“Strategic Defence Initative: Participation in Research Programme”) [a letter from Weinberger] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Bilaterals during the Bonn Economic Summit") [arrangements, order of priority for meetings (Reagan, Nakasone, Mitterrand), topics to discuss] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilateral with President Reagan") [difficulty arranging a time, White House "virtually under siege", but "would be almost unprecedented for you not to have a bialteral with the President in the margins of an Economic Summit"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit") [draft conclusions, MT "commented that they were a bit 'blancmangy'"; further attempt to strengthen] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKA Washington letter to Geoffrey Howe ("Economic Speech by Shultz at Princeton on 11 April") [speech "seems to represent... a chink in the hitherto rather rigid position of the Americans on the relationship between their budget deficit, the dollar, and the economies of other countries"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Walker minute to Peter Rees ("Running Costs Targets") [improved energy efficiency in departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football Hooliganism") [proposal to meet with Lord Aberdare, Chairman of the Football Trust] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to Powell ("Hong Kong Agreement: Joint Liaison Group") [Chinese position on composition of JLG] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong Agreement: Joint Liaison Group") [response to Chinese position on composition of JLG] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Michael Heseltine minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Defence Relations with New Zealand") [policy on nuclear ships visits, American attitude] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Paul Channon minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Sikh Extremists: Damage to Indo-British Relations") [handling of nationality applications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 108 to DTI (1230Z) ("Westlands") [consultation of technical experts, safety concerns] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Peter Rees PS ("The Late Kenneth Whitty") [assassination and death in service: treatment of future inflation in calculating compensation payments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Peter Rees PS ("Assassination and Death in Service") [MT in favour of increasing maximum pension for widows & highlights need to address effect of inflation on compensation payments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("UK/Soviet Parliamentary Contacts: IPU Return Visit") [timing of visit, Gorbachev preferred to lead delegation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Development of the European Community") [MT, Lawson, Tebbit & Havers responses to Howe's proposed guidelines for handling of discussions on future of the EC, in run-up to European Council in June] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Jakarta telegram 191 to FCO (0642Z) (Prime Minister's Visit to Indonesia) [summary & assessment of success] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Malaysia: 5 - 8 April 1985") [summary by South East Asian Department] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Charles Powell note to MT (cost-benefit analysis of each of the 23 VRAs) [cover note only, for Tebbit paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bilaterals during the Economic Summit") [Reagan, Mitterrand, Nakasone; Mulroney already seen, Craxi no reason to see] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bilateral Meetings during the Economic Summit") [proposed dates and times for meetings with Reagan, Mulroney, Nakasone and Craxi] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Mulroney letter to MT (new High Commissioner in London) [McMurtry’s appointment “will promote the relations of close friendship which so happily exist between our two countries”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“Denktash’s negative response to the UN Secretary General’s approach”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Chairman of the BBC (“BBC accounts”) [“should reflect the depreciation of fixed assets, according to normal commercial practice”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Michael Havers letter to Brittan (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chief Secretary's visit to Hungary, 9-11 April") [record of various conversations had by Rees with Hungarian government Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Turnbull minute for MT (Rate Support Grant 'close ending') [attached note "dealing with Mr Hattersley's fixation about the adjustment of RSG"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985") [problems with cash planning] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Running Cost Targets") [service personnel pay, manpower control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") [benefits payable to dependants; comments on Rees proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) ["Proposed Expulsion of Soviet Intelligence Officers" - agreement on action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Proposed Expulsion of Soviet Intelligence Officers") [need to combine large-scale expulsion of Soviet intelligence officers with continued dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1287 to FCO (2210Z) ("US/Soviet Realtions and VE Day Ceremonies in Moscow") [report of meeting between US/Soviet General's to discuss death of Major Nicholson; US representation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Drug Abuse; Meeting on Tuesday 23 April 1985") [summary/analysis of policy options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [summary of successful UK negotiations of terms of entry for Spain/Portugal to EC; revised Own Resources Decision/abatement of UK payments to EC; Integrated Mediterranean Programmes; reducing burden of EC legislation on small business; Citizens' Europe & Dooge Committee reports; IMF role in policing individual countries' economic policies; encouragement of official use of ECU; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Lisbon telegram 202 to FCO (1630Z) ("EC Enlargement") [record of PM Soares' views on the Signature of Treaty ceremony, the EC Presidency and the future of the EC] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President of the Ex-Services Association of Singapore letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's Visit to Singapore) [letter of thanks for MT's decision to meet with the Association] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (Prime Minister's Tour of South-East Asia) [MT's report on her visit: key points & draft statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Indo/Pakistan Nuclear") ["The JIC has assessed that Pakistan is working towards a nuclear weapons capability"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Howe minute to MT ("Legislation: Crown Agents and Commonwealth Development Corporation: Policy Clearance from OD") ["writing to seek formal approval for the bills' policies"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit") [Japanese "preoccupations" on: "the Japan problem", external policies, budget deficit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram 657 to UKE Washington and UKE Tokyo (1800Z) ("Bonn Summit: Bilaterals") [MT to meet Reagan, Nakasone and Mitterrand; dates and times, possible subjects for discussion] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (EC price fixing negotiations) [Jopling, French Minister of Agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Chancellor Kohl’s visit to Chequers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury economic briefing (“Comparison of Short-Term Forecasts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (UK comprehensive schools: comparison with the US, USSR and West Germany) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (opencast mining) [transfer of responsibility for licences for opencast mining from Department of Energy to Department of Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 306 to FCO (0050Z) (“Cyprus”) [“de Cuéllar, who was in a bullish mood, expressed his determination to continue his efforts”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [“we are now losing practically every local government by-election”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Alison note (Bill Deedes on Daily Telegraph ) [financial restructuring of newspaper; Peter Rawlinson to join board] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1282 to FCO (0045Z) (“US-South Africa”) [Shultz&rsquo:s speech: US position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robin Nicholson’s minute to Robert Armstrong (SDI research and development programme) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Vice-President George Bush card to MT (sends copy of her address to Congress) [“some day I will get up my nerve to say Margaret”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [Germans accept wording very close to ours on German unity] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: 2-4 May") [French will have two positive aims and two defensive aims for the summit; international monetary conference proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Robert Armstrong) ["Bonn Economic Summit" - discussion of summit draft declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("E(LF) 20 May: Meeting and Buffet Lunch") [attendees - Lawson's name added] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Tom King ("Cost-Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment") [PAC recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Brittan PS ("Sikh Extremists: Damage to Indo-British Relations") [MT wishes to discuss issue urgently] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 363 to FCO (0810Z) ("Westlands") [Gandhi realised issue was potentially difficult political problem for British government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (Assassination and Death in Service: benefits payable to dependants) ["I share... [Peter Rees'] concern about the suggestion that longer-term benefits might also be improved"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO telegram 383 to UKE Moscow (1200Z) ("Expulsion of Soviet Officials") [Soviet Ambassador summoned, blustering denial of accusations against Soviet officials; FCO expressed regret for leak to press] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Proposed Expulsion of Soviet Intelligence Officers") [concern at need for decision at short notice and apparent leak to BBC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 note ("Prime Minister's Questions: 18 April. Soviet Expulsions. Line to Take") [want to improve bilateral relations, but this does not mean relaxation of policy on kinds of activity which led to expulsions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (Government Response to the Beach Report on the Control of Military Information) [publication date/time; proof copy of text] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Armed Forces Pay Review Body") [background to problematic report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Rees letter to Tebbit ("MISC 108") [help for small firms: additional costs & off-setting savings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute ("Draft Agreement on Political Cooperation") [present state of text, with annotations by Powell] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Alan Clark letter to MT (GLC adverts on employment opportunities for disabled people) [rebutting GLC claims] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi message to MT (Prime Minister's Visit to India) [Tamil extremism; Pakistan nuclear programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (Government Response to the Environment Committee Report on the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981) [proposed final draft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Mr Mulroney's Visit - Media") ["the Canadians would have cameras in on virtually everything"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“CAP price fixing: developments prior to Agriculture Council on 22-23 April”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sport: Redwood minute to Young (“An exhbition hall and sports centre in Docklands”) [“I suggested that the LDDC should move quickly to the next stage”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rees letter to Brittan (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Kenneth Kaunda (peaceful solution for South Africa) [have pressed for unconditional release of Mandela; hope his powerful influence would be used for moderation, against violence] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Bundestag Debate on SDI”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang") ["We expect the public focus to be firmly on economic cooperation and opportunities for trade"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1325 to FCO (2232Z) ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Aspects") [meeting of G7 Political Directors in Washington; progress made in the drafting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office to Graham Stegmann ("Briefing Arrangements for the Bonn Economic Summit") [procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Letwin minute for Addison ("Leader of the Association of District Councils") [MT should grant request to see him; "essential to carry Conservative opinion"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Letwin minute for Addison ("Local Authority Capital Spending: Audit Commission Report") [in line with Waldegrave proposals for "one, simple control of net borrowing ... absolute freedom for local authorities to raise and spend money on capital projects as they see fit"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985") [effect of proposals on territorial departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Brittan PS minute to Charles Powell ("Sikh Extremists: Damage to Indo-British Relations") [dossier of statements made by Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 108 to DTI (1120Z) ("Westlands") [meeting of technical experts and Indian air force] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Rajiv Gandhi message to MT (meeting) [activities of extremists in UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Austin Rover Group: proposed meeting with Professor Bhattacharya) ["The ruse for seeing [Bhattacharya]...will not work"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell minute to MT (sale of BAe 146s to China) [confirmation of deal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Aid Trade Provision for China") [ATP funds insufficient to extend to China, in Howe's view] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Expulsion of Soviet Officials") [account of meeting with Soviet Ambassador Popov; leak of news here may worsen Soviet response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to MT (BBC TV programme on the 250th Anniversary of No.10) [filming inside No.10: "to clear with you the occasions in which you will be involved"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 letter to BBC (BBC TV programme on the 250th Anniversary of No.10) [scheduling of filming; preview screening for No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Drug Abuse") [cover minute with attached Home Office strategy document & summary of DHSS initiatives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to Michael Heseltine (1984 Review of Security Policy in Northern Ireland) [using resources in efficient and cost effective manner to deal with terrorism threat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Heseltine PS minute to Charles Powell (Prison Guard Force) [availability of new type of baton round] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Report on the Environment - Parliamentary Question on 23 April") [annoucement regarding report by Technology, Growth & Employment Working Group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Sri Lanka") [UK counter-terrorism support] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT (cost of running Parliament) [figures for 1981/82 - 1985/86] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Fowler memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 9 (Social Security Review) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Review of Public Order Law”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Soviet compliance with arms control] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Tom King minute to Peter Rees ("Running Costs Targets") [proposals give departments the flexibility they need] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell note to MT (Visit of the Canadian Prime Minister) ["Mulroney is making the most he can in publicity terms from his visit"; MT agrees to visit Canada House, against Powell's advice] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“Meetings of the Interim and Development Committees held in Washington on April 17-19, 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 1335 to FCO (0120Z) (“Chancellor of the Exchequer’s bilateral meeting with Secretary Baker”) [“Unitary taxation and international monetary reform were the main issues discussed”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 84”) [Gallup poll “effectively found the Labour and Conservative parties ‘neck and neck’”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell to Howe PS ("Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang") [MT "very ready to step up her participation in his programme", including welcoming ceremony, second session of talks, farewell call] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (Bonn Economic Summit) [Kohl's letter on summit focus, his "concerns generally speaking match our own"; draft reply for MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Arrangements") [German text of detailed schedule for summit, and press arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Meeting of Personal Representatives, 19-21 April") [final meeting of Sherpas - summit likely to focus on: US fiscal deficit, world economic recovery, high unemployment, EC economies, Japanese economy, protectionism] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Aspects") [MT's reservations about including a sentence on German unification; importance attached by Kohl to the statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Manned Space Station") [US report on international participation in space station] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Timetable") [latest schedule from the Germans] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chief Secretary PS letter to DOE ("Local Authority Expenditure: Newspaper Article") [Chief Secretary wrote for Sunday Express] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Hailsham minute to Peter Rees ("Running Costs Targets") [courts administration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [costing of options for reductions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey) [Fowler, Heseltine's concerns about cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Hailsham PS ("Australian Constitution Act 1900") [not possible to grant permanent loan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin minute to MT ("Large Scale Household Survey") [needs to proceed with survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Brittan PS minute to Charles Powell (immigration legislation) [redacted] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Howe ("Civil Service Order in Council") [legal advice on compliance; draft 1985 Order] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 541 to FCO (1200Z) ("Expulsions") [Soviet threat of further retaliation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 539 to FCO (0945Z) ("Expulsions") [British Ambassador summoned to be told off; three British diplomats to be expelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 540 to FCO (1010Z) ("Expulsions") [text of Soviet response to expulsions, "entirely unjustified ... political character", "unfriendly act"; three British diplomats to be expelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, David Orr, Peter Matthews) ["Armed Forces Pay Review Body"; Orr "conscious that the recommendations in the Report would create a difficult problem for the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Review Body Reports") [nurses, professions allied to medicine, and armed forces: findings & administrative arrangements; Top Salaries Review Body report: reasons for delay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Ian Stewart ("Budget Council") [request for an additional 2.3 billion ecu for 1985 Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Premadasa letter to MT (Victoria Dam project) [congratulates MT on success of her visit to Sri Lanka; thanks for UK aid for the project; visit to London & gift for MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Parliamentary Time for Opposition Parties") [Liberal & SDP demands for formal right] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Select Committee Report on "The Wealth of Waste"") [David Trippier's proposal to assume a co-ordinating responsibility for waste recycling issues not met with enthusiasm by No.10 or Treasury] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Rees) ["Mr Enoch Powell's Bill": Unborn Children (Protection) Bill] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham, Gummer) ["Cost of Parliament" - concern at increase; problems of proliferating research assistants and consultancies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Fowler ("Social Security Review - Public Service Provisions") [questions about future policy, arising from Green Paper on occupational and personal pensions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Call by new Canadian High Commissioner”) [“McMurtry spoke of trying to identify fields for new initiatives in UK-Canada relations”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: MT letter to Donald Maclean (Scottish rates revaluation) [“these rate increases emphasise the weaknesses in the present system of local government finance”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Treasury (pay negotiations) [“On balance, the Prime Minister favours [higher] offer of 4.9 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Brittan (“Public Order Review”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Howe letter to Brittan (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) EC/Italy: Powell letter to FCO (start-time of Milan European Council) [change from 1pm to 10am inconvenient for MT, urge 11am] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit: Meeting of Personal Representatives, 19/21 April") [MT's finds French government's stance on reference to Geneva talks and the Thematic Paper "irritating"; against a monetary conference, disturbed to see US position on this seems to be changing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Schmidt speech ("Wishful thinking for the Bonn Summit") ["Consensus is possible"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler (study of community charge in Cambridgeshire) [seeks contact with Inland Revenue] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [Rees should proceed as proposed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Ibbs ("Capital Expenditure Contracts") [MT requests report on cost overruns and delays] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Letwin minute to MT ("Large Scale Household Survey") [opposes survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Redwood and Monckton minute to MT ("Private Rented Sector") [deregulation: public spending implications; housing benefit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 121 to FCO (1333Z) ("Westlands") [Gandhi seeking a reason to turn company down] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leon Brittan, David Mellor, John Patten, Hartley Booth) ["Drug Misuse": forfeiture of assets; institutional corruption; international cooperation; review of doctors' prescription methods; educating young people; treatment & rehabilitation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: OD(I)(85) 2") [arrangements and proposals for next round of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [first meeting of OD(I) committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Visit of European Parliamentary Delegation to London") ["to advocate the draft treaty on European Union"; defensive line to take against "Britain in the slow lane" reports] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office (internal): Lord Young PS letter to David Williamson ("Deregulation") [action to follow-up MT statement at European Council, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to South East Asia, Sri Lanka, India and Saudi Arabia") [follow-up actions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Fowler ("Study of Tax and Social Security Systems") [approves efficiency drive, but opposes study group] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews") [financial implications for public and private sectors] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Benefits") [pre-meeting to agree handling of Cabinet discussion on review proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Papua New Guinea: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("ATP Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") [conditions for ATP provision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“ Agricultural Council: 22-23 April 1985”) [“agricultural prices: the second day”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (“Coal Industry Bill”) [budgetary planning for the coal industry: 'we will need to give a public indication of our financial expectations'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Stock Re-Build at CEGB Power Stations”) [latest data] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Brittan (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: John Mathope letter to MT (Forced Removals: appeal for help) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“South Africa Internal”) [black citizenship proposals and civil rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: George Younger’s PS minute to Lawson (“Proposed Rate Relief (Temporary Provisions) (Scotland) Bill 1985””) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: Rhodes Boyson PS letter to Biffen PS ("De Lorean: PAC debate") [Public Accounts Committee: take note Motion for Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit: FRG Views") [Kohl interview - "Public German rejection of a locomotive role for themselves"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UK Delegation NATO telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet Geneva Talks: Briefing to NAC") ["Despite the lack of movement, the atmosphere of the talks had been cordial and quite business-like"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Helmut Kohl (Bonn Economic Summit) [discussions should have "aim of achieving consistent macro-economic policies and... of encouraging enterprise and helping the labour market to work more efficiently"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Economic Summit: Unitary Tax") ["when it comes to the crunch, I think a push from the President himself may be necessary"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: TUC General-Secretary letter to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit") ["concern of the international trade union movement at growing insecurity, inequality and polarisation"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley letter to Jenkin ("New burdens on local government") [transport entries in your list misleading] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Young minute to Tom King ("Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment") [need for a wide evaluation of schemes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") [applying a progressive squeeze] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Powell letter to FCO ("Hong Kong Agreement: Joint Liaison Group") [response to Chinese position on composition of JLG] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 538 to FCO (1625Z) ("Westlands") [Gandhi said W30 did not appear to meet India's requirements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Christopher Jones letter to MT (BBC Film on the 250th Anniversary of No.10) [thanks for interview & access to No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Young minute to MT ("Ministerial Group on Small Firms: Report to E(A)") [outstanding issues to be resolved prior to announcement of package of measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("23 April Budget Council") [report: agricultural spending; Intergovernmental Agreement for supplementary finance for 1985 EC Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Cutting the Burden of Community Legislation on Business and Enterprise") [interim report on action in hand to follow up MT's initiative at the European Council on De-regulation; MT asks to be kept informed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [French proposal for European Research Coordination Agency; financing of 1985 EC Budget overrun; farm prices for 85-86; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram 068 to FCO (0705Z) ("Budget Council: 23 April 1985") [record of conversation on 1985 Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Lord Marsh letter to MT ("Nissan Opening Ceremony: October/November 1986") [invitation to MT to attend ceremony marking beginning of production at UK Nissan plant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Tebbit minute to MT ("Visit to Japan: 15-19 April 1985") [report on visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Cost-Effectiveness of Jobs Measures") [Chief Secretary's proposal that cost of job creation schemes should be analysed and compared] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Privatisation of the Gas Industry (E(A) (85) 24)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [strategy proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit ("British Export Opportunities: The GDR, Czechoslovakia and Poland") [Howe's views, following visit to East Berlin, Prague & Warsaw] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Papua New Guinea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Somare, Howe, Giheno) [development; Anzus/nuclear ship visits; Kiribati fishing agreement with USSR; Philippines; Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [agenda] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("Social Security Reviews") [MT request for Treasury & DHSS officials to agree figures on consequences of abolishing SERPS, in time for postponed Cabinet meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 566 to FCO (1415Z) ("The Central Committee Plenum 0f 23 April: Leadership Changes") [details/analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit") [Nakasone "somewhat apprehensive that Japan might be more open to criticism than her partners"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 568 to FCO (1600Z) ("Gorbachev's Speech at the Central Committee Plenum 0f 23 April: International Affairs") [summary/analysis: "No new perspectives... confirms my view that Gorbachev's number one priority is the state of the economy"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling minute to Howe (“CAP Price Fixing 1985”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [social security reviews, late payment of VAT, taxation of charities, arts and heritage, national insurance contributions, local government finance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Late Payment of VAT”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Coal Issues": power station stocks, future of the NCB, pit closures; NUM rules] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe minute to MT (“Cyprus”) [de Cuéllar to seek UK help in securing Turkish agreement to proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tebbit letter to Lord Gowrie (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [“I am very much opposed to the practice of civil servants notionally retiring at the age of 60, collecting their lump sums and being immediately re-employed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO briefing for MT (“Call on the Prime Minister by Mrs Geraldine Ferraro: 29 April”) [Vice-Presidential candidate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Gorbachev’s speech at the Central Committee plenum of 23 April: International Affairs”) [“disappointing… no new perspectives”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [“Peacock committee”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Brittan (White Paper on Public Order: implications for Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Rate Relief in Scotland”) [recommendations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Argentina: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (“Argentina”) [political situation] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("China: Visit by Premier Zhao") [proposed MT interview with senior Chinese journalists "would provide a rare opportunity to project her views at first hand to the Chinese people"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Prime Minister of China's Visit: Interview") [knows "the importance you attach to the success of this visit", suggests half-hour exceptional interview] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1378 to FCO (0230Z) ("The Second Reagan Administration and the Approach to the Bonn Summit") ["with the re-election honeymoon over, the administration is in a bad patch"; "1986 mid-terms begin to cast a long shadow"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1379 to FCO (0240Z) ("Bonn Summit: US Trade Policy") [US seeking a new GATT round; "if the summit is seen to fail, the domestic protectionist pressures may become irresistible"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1380 to FCO (0250Z) ("Bonn Summit: US Economy and Economic Policies") ["the growth of the US economy has slowed down to a crawl"; international monetary meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: French approach") [French "will stand firm" on position on GATT and securing European interests] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Patten letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies A Trust for London") [supports his proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Secretary minute for MT (evidence to be submitted to Widdicombe Inquiry) ["Central government conventions on publicity and advertising"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [service pay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chinese Ambassador: Courtesy Call") ["would underline the importance... [MT] attaches personally to the further development of relations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation ("VE Day: President Reagan's Visit to a German War Cemetery") [Charles Powell, Teltschik: regarding MT's "alleged criticism in the House of Commons this afternoon"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Rees letter to Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission ("Review Body Reports") [proposed increases for nurses, doctors & dentists, and armed forces respectively] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Higher Education Green Paper") [MT notified of Policy Unit doubts about Keith Joseph proposals; she allows paper to go to H committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General's Legal Secretary letter to FCO ("Development of the EC") [Attorney-General considers he should see draft text on political cooperation before it is put to other states; case for putting "Luxembourg Compromise" into treaty form] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("Aid and Trade Provision: Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") [qualified consent to Channon's proposed increase] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("UK Trade Mission to China and Hong Kong") [request from representatives of the companies included in the mission to meet in advance with MT, to discuss financing of projects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 14th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [late payment of VAT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy press notice (“Coal Industry Bill Published”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: NUCAS minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [Central Council meeting, transport, property review, Standing Review Committee, Social Affairs Forum, Federation of Conservative Students, county council elections, party conference] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison minute to MT (“Monday Lunches”) [lunches with cabinet colleagues - suggested attendees, arrangements] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Jenkin (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to C.E. Needham (fishing around the Falkands) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti message to MT ("Latin America Debt") ["it would be a grave mistake to think that the problem of foreign debt has been overcome"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office letter to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: TGE Reports") [reports of G7 working groups on Technology, Growth and Employment and the Environment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: European Parliament Secretary-General to MT (forwards European Parliament resolution) [Latin American debt and Bonn Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Sherbourne minute for Ingham and others (leaked GLC minutes) [GLC planning "major media/publicity events: County Hall and Downing Street" ] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("Value for Money Seminars") [suggests running seminar with Dept. of Employment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Greater London Council minute to Department of Environment ("Secretary of States Consents") [GLC's proposed celebrations for VE Day, including invitation to Soviets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["Aside from Trident this is the biggest procurement decision the Government will have taken"; key issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") [Heseltine proposal: analysis & counter-arguments; alternative options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations/contracts & conditions of service: summary of Keith Joseph proposals; options; recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations/industrial disruption; teaching standards assessment/contracts & conditions of service] [declassified Dec 2014]

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