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PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rifkind letter to Channon ("Proposed New GATT Round") [proposed lines to take in forthcoming international discussions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Howe ("Channel Fixed Link") [guidelines for promoters: publication; deadline for proposals; note of meeting with French Ministers; next steps; consultation; defence/security issues; traffic restrictions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Defence Estimates, exchange rates, GLC, tv license fee) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to Armstrong (transfer of responsibility for mining planning consents from Department of Energy to Department of Environment) [transfer of responsibility 'causing considerable difficulty and delay'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Scottish Office briefing (meeting with Scottish backbench Conservatives) [rates revaluation “has in many cases affected individual authorities and individual taxpayers significantly”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival site”) [“the site will be re-opened to the public in 1985”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Heseltine, Tebbit, Fowler, Jenkin, Gowrie, Hayhoe) [“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe APS letter to No.10 (“Contributions from United States to Irish causes”) [Howe says “it needs to be related to the idea of setting up a fund for economic reconstruction and development in Ireland”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Lord Bethell letter to No.10 (dinner for US Senate delegation) [list of attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Transport minute to No.10 (“Laker: Attempted Settlement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“ National Savings”) [the proposed increase of rates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Powell explains his policy on notetaking and circulation; MT-Bush meeting in Moscow, US position on ABM] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-Argentine-German Seminar in Bonn”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Treasury minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR") [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Rhodes Boyson letter to Tebbit ("De Lorean: possible writ against Lotus Cars") ["...in connection with money paid to Lotus by DMCL..."; Tebbit: "The balance of national interest seems to me to point strongly against the issue of such a writ"; Treasury seeks assurance from Northern Ireland Office of clear evidence as basis to proceed with litigation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin briefing for MT ("Local Government Seminar") [Waldegrave will propose "(a)bolition of domestic rates ... by installing a new, simple, across-the-board poll tax for all local inhabitants"; "a first-rate job ... we agree"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to MT ("Seminar and lunch at Chequers Sunday, 31 March") [list of attendees; seating plan for lunch] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: HMT letter to No.10 ("The Foreign Office Programme: Diplomatic Wing") [impact of exchange rate movements on FCO expenditure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("FCO: Overseas Risen Costs") [impact of exchange rate movements on FCO expenditure; Treasury and FCO fighting over joint paper, but decision no closer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Football Hooliganism") [speaking note for meeting with FA representatives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Football Associations") ["Football Hooliganism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Letwin minute to No.10 ("Large Scale Household Survey") [opposes Jenkins' proposed survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Professor S.K. Bhattacharyya letter to MT (Austin Rover Group 1985 Corporate Plan) ["I do not feel that ARG can look forward to a financially viable future with the present senior management team"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting on British Leyland: 1530 on Monday, 1 April") [BL privatisations and Corporate Plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT (British Leyland 1985 Corporate Plan) [prospects for Austin Rover Group: possible cooperation with Honda] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry briefing to MT ("BL") [British Leyland Corporate Plan: meeting with Tebbit and Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 426 to FCO (0750Z) ("Westlands") [alleged technical doubts on WG30] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Armed Forces Pay Review Body") [Chair requests meeting with MT to discuss forthcoming report containing "unwelcome" recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Top Salaries Review Body") [range/job weighting/performance-related pay; Lord Plowden request for private meeting with MT to discuss "some of the background to the report and some of the results of their inquries which he has found very disturbing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 180 to FCO (1215Z) ("Greek Presidential Election") [outcome bound to cause controversy and increase uncertainty] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("University Efficiency") [publication of Jarratt Steering Committee report & Open University report: summaries, analysis & advice; briefing attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Teachers' Pay") [1985 negotiations; contractual duties; reform of salary structure; recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay neogtiations: Keith Joseph/Younger proposals: concerns regard precedent-setting and Rate Support Grant settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Biffen minute to MT ("Industrial Action by Teachers - Privilege") [assessment of Government's prospects of success in referring Scottish teachers' industrial action to Committee of Privileges; alternative options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Your Meeting with Dr. Fitzgerald") [media presentation of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ronald Halstead, Chairman of Beecham Group, letter to MT (target rate of return on capital for Pharmaceutical Industry and limited drugs list) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, 29-30 March") [report of the Committee on People's Europe: summary of recommendations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Dooge Committee Report to the European Council ("Report to the European Council") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Initiative on Employment and Deregulation") [MT draft conclusions for European Council meeting, 29/30 March] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister González Márquez message to MT (Spanish Accession to the EC) [thanks to MT for her contribution to succesful conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Department of Trade and Industry briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to South East Asia") [Sri Lanka: Cable & Wireless and Blue Circle projects] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to E.L. Senanayake (Prime Minister's Tour of South East Asia) [acceptance of invite from Speaker to attend and address Sri Lankan Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Malaysia: Prime Minister's Visit: Air Services Dispute") [Malaysian taxation affecting BA profits; handling of linkage between air services dispute and commercial contracts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia: 4-13 April") [Malaysia; Singapore; Brunei; Indonesia; Sri Lanka; India] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Provision for Retirement") [scrutiny of Fowler proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Social Security Reviews - Outstanding Issues") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Outcome of the Review") [next steps] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("MISC 111: Provision for Retirement") [compulsory occupational pension scheme proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Benefits for 16 and 17 Year Olds") [draft PQ reply] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("MISC 111") [family credit & child benefit; achievements of the reviews; upratings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Younger letter to Fowler ("Students' Entitlements to Supplementary Benefit and Housing Benefit") ["I should be most concerned... if any changes to entitlement... were implemented in advance of the review of student support on which Keith Joseph and I are now engaged"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ian Stewart PS letter to Ridley PS ("Channel Fixed Link") [comments on draft statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“Agricultural Price Fixing and Budget Discipline”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) ['There is no excuse for an organisation with the resources of the NCB to emerge from a prolonged strike without clearly defined objectives'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Larne Harbour letter to MT (opening ceremony for new terminal) [invitation] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO letter to Canadian High Commission (McMurtry visit to London) [meetings arranged with MT, FCO ministers and officials] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Brittan letter to Howe (“UK/US extradition”) [US seeks removal of Article IV on refusal to extradite where offence is punishable by death] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe APS letter to No.10 (“Request for a call on the Prime Minister by Mrs Geraldine Ferraro: 29 or 30 April”) [MT agrees to short meeting with Vice-Presidential candidate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit minute to Heseltine (“Skill shortages”) [“I would myself have preferred an MOD contribution towards the switch, rather than further sponsorship”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to MT (“The exploitation of Research Council funded inventions”) [“there may be greater risk than under the old arrangements that some good discoveries may be lost or under-exploited”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Heseltine minute to MT (“Falklands Trooping Contract”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“Airports: Prestwick, privatisation, white paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1106 to FCO (0105Z) (“SDI: Shultz Speech”) [arms control: objectives and prospects] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1107 to FCO (0110Z) (“Shultz Austin Speech: SDI”) [key passages] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram 434 to FCO (1400Z) (“American-Soviet Arms Control Talks in Geneva”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: John Redwood minute for MT (“Currencies and Economies”) [dollar turning down] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Northern Ireland: confiscation of IRA funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("European Council: Parliamentary Statement") [MT draft statement with annotations; Hansard transcript; various other drafts with annotations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: European Council draft Presidency Conclusions ("European Council Brussels, 29 and 30 March 1985 Draft Conclusions") [includes MT annotations and handwritten notes by officials] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: ?FCO briefing for MT press conference ("European Council: Brussels 29-30 March 1985") [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
Text 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: ?Butler note ("Seminar on local government finance") ["Note for background briefing by press officers"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Waldegrave, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Younger, Baker, Edwards, Rees, Young, Gummer, Ancram; Rothschild, Butler, Heiser, Redwood, Brearley, Meyer) [Chequers seminar on local government finance studies - origins of community charge] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT ("Soccer Hooligans") [arrangements for Brittan/Jenkin press conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MacGregor letter to miners (end of the miners' strike) ['every effort must be made to restore harmony within the industry'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (NUM Yorkshire Area annual report for 1984) ['illustrates fairly clearly the attitudes and present thinking of the NUM at Area level'] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 note of conversation (Julian Bullard phone message) [message to Horst Teltschik delivered; Britain left out of three-way consultations between FRG, French and Italians] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ryder minute for Butler ("Rates Meeting") [possible dates for E(LF)] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Robin Butler (Public Expenditure Survey) ["a difficult Survey is in prospect"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Stephen Sherbourne minute to John Redwood (Transport and Public Expenditure) [declassified Dec 2014]
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]

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