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Text 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Mario Soares) [MT visit to Portugal; entry to EC; internal situation; relations with US; Africa; South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Briefing") [questions and answers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: OECD Secretary-General note ("Ministerial Conference on The Longer-Term Performance of OECD Economies: Challenges Facing Governments") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("DBS") [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: latest position on joint project; advice against providing Government reassurances on protection from competition and tax liabilities ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (independent national radio) [enabling legislation via Cable & Broadcasting Bill; dispute with Treasury about financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Department of Education briefing for MT (visit of Indian Minister of State for Education, Culture and Social Welfare) [aid & trade for new technology in schools] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Sale of Westland Helicopters to India") ["whether... aid proposal should be approved for commercial and political reasons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jaguar") ["some blocking mechanism to prevent foreign take-over after flotation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar") ['management buy-out' option] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar") [background; main issues; sale to foreign manufacturer; flotation options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 154 to FCO (0110Z) ("Lebanon: UK Proposals") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 152 to FCO (0100Z) ("Lebanon: French Initiative") [reactions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 516 to FCO (2303Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Moscow telegram 209 to FCO (0856Z) ("Message to President Reagan") [advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 177 to UKE Moscow (1250Z) ("Message to President Reagan") ["What is needed now from the Americans is an assurance which the Syrians can trust"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: King letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (cashless payments and repeal of the Truck Acts) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BGC's negotiations for Sleipner Gas") [UK gas exports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Younger PS letter to Biffen PS ("Shipping Subsidies for the Scottish Islands") ["announcement is likely to be controversial"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (Sarah Tisdall case) [summary of internal security measures in wake of the case] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Wales: Chris Butler letter to Alison Ward (Welsh water charges court case) [“English consumers resented bailing out the Welsh consumers”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations brief (Executive Committee meeting) [resolutions from constituency/area associations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (talk with Czech Ambassador) [asks for explanation of Czech press criticism of MT visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Ronald Dumas card for MT (thanking for conversation & sending orchids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe message to UKE Paris (“Visit of President Mitterrand: 5 March”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Rees (“Training for Jobs”) [public expenditure and local authority finance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Turnbull (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [ministers in the dark] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan meeting with Neil Kinnock (briefing & background papers) [declassified 2002]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO record of conversation (“The Prime Minister’s Meeting with Mr Chernenko in February”) [UKE Moscow to FCO telegram] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw) [“Abolition of the GLC and MCC’s”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Falkland Islands Government memo ("The Falkland Islands") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ingham, members of the Independent Television Companies Association Limited) [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite venture: "Essentially their concern was the problem of raising £200m to finance their share of the venture"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Prior minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower after 1984") ["to seek your agreement to announcing the results of the work which I set in hand... in parallel with that undertaken in Whitehall"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [UK's 1983 refunds; meeting of Energy Ministers; third Lome convention/overseas development; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Elections") [current position on preparations for the Elections; key points for Cabinet discussion; MT's engagement for the Elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kaul) ["Indian Minister of State for Education, Culture and Social Welfare"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Clive Derby (TV licences and hotels) [unease about present arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: UKE Washington telegram 530 to FCO (2300Z) to FCO ("Israeli Settlements: Jordanian U.N. Initiative") [background; US reaction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: UKE Washington telegram 532 to FCO (2305Z) to FCO ("King Hussein's Visit to Washington: Arab/Israel") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") [draft MT message to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Mercury Licence") [proposal to grant licence directly to Mercury rather than to Cable and Wireless] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Security Commission Report on the Aldridge case) [amendments; publication: officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (ESPRIT) [clarification of MT comments to Davignon on 13 February regarding financing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Turnbull minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: answer to Parliamentary question] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Geoffrey Curtis minute to MT (religion in Eastern Europe) [Reverend John Russell's record of his visit & impressions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: King statement (“Statement by Tom King”) [noting TUC opposition; government’s intent not to make changes; will compromise if TUC adopts statement of guidance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“Forthcoming Political Speeches”) [“suggestions as to whom you might ask to provide a first draft”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Hurd letter to MT (Budapest & Moscow visits) [Cruise, “in a good position to talk”; Soviet negotiations; police bill] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Taxation of Gilt Edged Securities of Building Societies") ["You might have to confirm...that this measure will not have serious effects on the flow of mortgage finance"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (draft speaking note) [“we do now need to consider the possibility of a new approach to the Irish question”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MOD letter to MT (the A320 negotiations: German interest) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 minute to MT (“Hong Kong”) [David Owen visit to China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: public presentation of HMG’s position”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne notes (European Elections Publications’ Committee (“Howe Group”)) [“Need to avoid banana skins.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Coles, Anthony Jolliffe) [Dr. Spilsinger's message: Argentine-British relations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (meeting with Rees) [spending provision in Scotland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Whitelaw PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [draft discussion document] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to Information Technology Division, DTI (security classification of recent correspondence with No.10 regarding BT/International Computers Ltd) ["would be inappropriate to downgrade... to 'confidential'"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, King Hussein, Taher Masri) [US/Lebanon; Israeli/Arab relations; Syria; Iraq/Iran] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT (MT, Howe, King Hussein, Taher Masri) [US/Lebanon; Israeli/Arab relations; Syria; Iraq/Iran; Queen's visit to Jordan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: John Stanley minute to MT ("Lebanon") [BRITFORLEB representation at Multinational Force Coordination Committee Meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe minute to MT ("Lebanon") [BRITFORLEB representation at Multinational Force Coordination Committee Meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Patrick Jenkin (funding for Development Commission Programme) [King explains why he cannot agree to Jenkin's request to divert funding from Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of New Zealand Prime Minister") [EC/NZ trade relations, international trade, sport and South Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Policy Reviews") [housing benefits;supplementary benefits; benefits for children & young people] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Chairman of British Shipbuilders (Trafalgar House bid for Scott Lithgow) [conditions for Government consent to process to full negotiation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Brittan, Tom King, Lord Gowrie, Michael Havers) ["The Polygraph": GCHQ pilot scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit minute to MT (report on visit to Washington and New York) [protectionism; limiting exports of high technology goods to Eastern bloc; US intrusions into UK sovereignty; extra-territoriality; export controls; IBM; AT&T; banking secrecy in Caymans; international anti-trust matters; Freddie Laker; BT flotation; communicating the merits of privatisation; high-level contacts with US; exports to US ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 227 to FCO (0800Z) ("Vice President Bush's Meeting on 14 February with Chernenko") [report of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Papua New Guinea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Proposed Invitation to Visit Britain: Mr Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea") ["Our interests in Papua New Guinea are growing"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("MPs Expenses Payments and Tax") [additional costs allowance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 6th (Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO minute for Armstrong (“Visit of President Mitterrand”) [his meeting with Attali] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute for MT (“President Mitterrand”) [arrangements for his visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: MT letter for Ronald Dumas (thanking for the orchids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (changes to corporation tax and capital allowances and effect on the Nissan project) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (changes to excise duties in 1984 Budget) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Reforming Business Taxes") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Building Socities: Taxation of Profits on Gilts"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Commercial Sponsorship”) [hopes MT will extend the cost price principle “to items other than equipment, and in particular, food and drink”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [MT agrees his plan for Nigerian debt problem - "we have little alternative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: January to April”) ["this month's slower growth brings £M3 within the target range"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MT letter to Ray Powell (meeting the officers of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Group: A320 project) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (selective authorities rate limitation scheme) [Rates Bill] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands/Argentina: Reply from Argentine Foreign Minister") [normalisation of relations between Britain and Argentina] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Conservative Research Department draft ("Public Expenditure White Paper February 16th 1984") [wants a policy and programme review, not an "efficiency" exercise] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rees-Bailey-Redwood) [over-provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but not in Wales] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Defence and Oversea Policy Committee, 22 February") ["item 2 (European Community budget: contingency plans for withholding)"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Expenditure Programmes and Control of United Kingdom Public Expenditure (E(A)(84) 12)") ["further discussions between... [Lawson and Tebbit] seem likely to lead to an agreement... on the public expenditure control of the... [UK] share of Community expenditure and specifically on ESPRIT"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Younger ("Leyland Trucks") [future of Bathgate plant] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (McMahon, Middleton, Rawlinson, others) [institutional liberalisation and mergers policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 177 to FCO (2215Z) ("Lebanon: UN Options") [French draft resolution] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 89 to FCO (1130Z) ("Lebanon") [probable current Syrian thinking] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Lebanon") [draft MT message to Vice President Bush] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 74 to UKMIS New York (1813Z) ("Lebanon: UN options: French views") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to David Steel MP (Freedom of Information Campaign) [suggestion that Government has forbidden Civil Servants to communicate with FOI Campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]

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