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PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: wording of Agreement; joint press release and presentation; communique; Ulster Defence Regiment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish talks: press leaks) [Irish Government alleges that British Cabinet Minister has shown draft Agreement to media] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: date of summit; concern about Unionist attempts to "wreck" Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Ian Paisley MP and Jim Molyneaux MP (Anglo-Irish talks) ['I can only repeat my assurance that, whatever emerges from our negotiations...there is no threat whatsoever to the Union'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Utilities: Redwood minute to MT ("Water Rates and Gas Charges") ['recent press stories about the Treasury seeking to pay for tax cuts by forcing up people's water rates and gas bills are damaging'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Electricity and Gas EFLs") [overshoots of External Financing Limits for electricity supply industry and British Gas attributable to coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Address by the US Secretary of State George Shultz before the 31st Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly ("Arms Control, Strategic Stability and Global Security")
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw & Wakeham PS letter to Hailsham PS ("Carrying the Cap of Maintenance at the State Opening of Parliament") [ceremonial arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985) [request for approval] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of Korea") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security and Local Authority Finance") [analysis of the combined impact of proposed changes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Review of Social Security: The Next Steps") [thoughts on the proposed abolition/modification of the state-earnings-related pension scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC 111 tomorrow") [Social Security review: summary of papers for the meeting; proposed Cabinet Office further study on impact of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Cost of SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 111") [Social Security reform: "If we are driven back to draining SERPS rather than abolishing it, it is important to set fairly penal rates for those remaining in SERPS. Norman Fowler should be invited to produce final proposals along these lines"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Tom King letter to Fowler ("Social Security Reforms") ["universally and vociferously criticised in Northern Ireland"; highlights specific issues; "will need to have convincing arguments in defending the Government's position"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of Social Security (MISC 111 (85) 14") [SERPS; other social security measures] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd minute to MT (MISC 111: Review of Social Security: State-Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)) [Hurd now in favour of retaining SERPS whilst limiting open-ended nature of commitment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Egyptian Projects: Considerations for the Prime Minister's Visit") [emphasises the need for aid to serve developmental objectives] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Hurd minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - which level of road deliveries is best] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“The most carefully sieved speech that we have ever done!”]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John MacGregor minute for Douglas Hurd (“Handsworth”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note for MT (presentation of macro-economic policy) [“unhelpful article” in FT shows why Chancellor concerned] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“a settlement at the level of the opening offer would be unhelpful for other public trading sector negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to George Younger (Running Costs) [“I want to make an early announcement confirming the decision to move to control of running costs and ending the pay assumption”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Howe (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [Select Committee scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“I feel that there would be merit in… an alternative method”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Prime Minister’s Statement on the World Political Scene”) [tighter structure needed, expand section on Non-Proliferation Treaty] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“CHOGM: Briefing Meeting”) [handling of situation in South Africa, bilaterals with other leaders] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Brunei Shell Petroleum”) [“The situation requires delicate handling”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa on the eve of CHOGM”) [“Government’s worst handicap is a virtual loss of credibility among blacks”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Mulroney of Canada (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to James Barber (Fellowship Programme for black South Africans) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Nigel Lawson minute to MT (“Common Agricultural Policy”) [Michael Jopling’s letter: support measures for agricultural production] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Prosecuting Solicitors' Society of England and Wales (The Crown Prosecution Service) [remuneration proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King minute to MT ("Lear Fan") [development of new aircraft at Aldergrove: liquidation of Lear Fan company] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) ["Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Walker letter to Hurd (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [theft from gas & electricity coin meters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Treasury ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: MT request for Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Lord Hailsham letter to Tony Newton ("Green Paper Proposals for New Pension Arrangements") ["county courts are quite inappropriate for your proposals regarding coercive orders"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 29th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen’s Speech) [Tottenham riot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Pollution”) [Baker proposals for new inspectorate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Anna Jones (education seminar: points on the future of education) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to John Wright (education seminar: Roy Honeyford’s attendance) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute (“World Economic Prospects: Autumn 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“Department of the Registers of Scotland… is an important element in achieving our policy of extending home ownership in Scotland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [Commonwealth Liaison Group] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO record of conversation (“Senior Officials Meeting 15 October 1985”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: FCO minute (“CHOGM: UNICEF - Global Immunisation”) [briefing ahead of possible CHOGM discussion] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Edward Seaga statement (joint IMF-Commonwealth Caribbean Group of Countries meeting) [need for reform] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Geoffrey Howe minute to Kenneth Baker (“CHOGM and the Gleneagles Agreement”) [“we do not have the power to limit individual freedoms in the sort of way others may have”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Machel letter to MT (bilateral cooperation and situation in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Banking Supervision”) [Treasury proposals to be discussed at a meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: George Younger minute to MT (“Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT (gas purchase negotiations and gas privatisation) ['I believe your office's suggestion...that you should write to Denis Rooke...is misconceived'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd minute for Howe ("Macau") [Portugese passport holders' special status vis-a-vis EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("New government") [messages of congratulations from MT and Howe to incoming/outgoing PMs and Foreign Ministers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Howe ("Channel Fixed Link: Compensation Between Governments: Compensation for Closure on Grounds of Defence and National Security") [UK/France Treaty negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, MacGregor, Raison] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Brittan letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of option Clauses 25 and 46”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kaunda) [how to avoid bloodshed in South Africa, question of sanctions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney) [Commonwealth action on South Africa meaningless unless UK involved, Mulroney suggests UK propose package of measures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Shell Petroleum (negotiations with Brunei government) [will take up the matter with the Sultan in Nassau] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Maputo telegram to FCO (“Machel’s message to Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan letter to Howe (“South Africa; EC Code of Conduct”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Emley Moor Colliery") [NCB response to request to sell pit to miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Training Given by the Armed Services”) [publicity value for Government of benefit to private sector] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKDEL Nassau ("Arms Control: Gorbachev's Letter to the Prime Minister") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgorve (economic assumptions) [unemployment, pay] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MODUK telegram to UKE Bonn (Heseltine-Woerner conversation) [Sikorsky threat to European helicopter industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan-Sir John Cuckney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretariat record of conversation (CHOGM first executive session) [Armstrong comments on draft record of MT's remarks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (tax relief for donations to educational institutions) [draft response to recommendation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: Gaisman note (“Lunches for industrialists”) [arrangements for possible event] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [to be discussed at General Advisory Council on 30 Oct] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke) [no intention to embarrass or attack the UK; “it was necessary to be ready to talk about sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Brian Mulroney note to MT (executive session) [“this meeting is the ultimate test of the patience of any reasonable person of conservative persuasion!”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT statement (introductory remarks on the world political scene) [global security, arms control, South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKE Bonn (“Quadripartite Discussion of Summit Seven Follow Up”) [British participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 6 to UKDEL Nassau (2030Z) (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2895 to FCO (1900Z) (“UK-US Supplementary Extradition Treaty”) [MT-Reagan talks in New York] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for UK help with Achille Lauro terrorist attack) [grateful & proud] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (thanks for birthday message) [hopes "understanding can be enlarged" and talks with Reagan are fruitful] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (Chequers seminar) [main results] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“Perspectives for the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“I see no merit in introducing an income tax surcharge”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Heseltine letter to Hurd (renewal of Articles 25 and 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights: Articles 25 and 46”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mugabe) [“Mugabe seemed ready to endorse violence”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM draft communiqué (declaration on world order; declaration on South Africa; Benjamin Moloise execution) [“we resolve to redouble our support for the struggle to hasten the end of the abomination of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016]

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