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PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baker letter to Jopling (alternative uses of agricultural land and rural employment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (G7 Summit, Libya, Chernobyl, top salaries) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: Immediate Reactions in Japan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute to FCO (“Economic Summit: Statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1218 to FCO (2200Z) ("Geneva Nuclear and Space Negotiations: Round V") [usual uncertainty about Soviet intentions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Hurd, Biffen, Tom King, John MacGregor, Lord Young, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley and others) [prison officers' dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders") ["With privatisation... completed... The preferred BS scenario is now to slim down... This is sure to create both a political and a trade union row... We recommend that the BS proposals be accepted and that David Young comes forward urgently with his measures to help support the North East"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Young minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: the next steps") ["... impending redundancies... need for us to consider the action that we should take to offset the effects on the worst hit areas of the North East"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Shipbuilders") ["... main issue is whether there is any case for seeking to delay or influence... the proposed announcement by... (BS)... of their intention to close three yards; whether the Government should announce an employment initiative to ameliorate the effects on the North East; and if so, how it should be financed"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Griffiths ("Hull Forms for Warships: Lord Hill-Norton's Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Report of the Privileges Committee") ["... leak of the draft Report of the Environment Committee on Radioactive Waste... It is a rather odd principle that a journalist should be punished and the leaker should go free... But, however cogent Bernard's arguments, Government members must be seen to vote in favour of the report, given that the Lord Privy Seal is the Chairman and the Attorney General is a member"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Ingham minute for MT ("Post Chernobyl Presentation") [impression of buck-passing] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Interdepartmental Coordination - Department of the Environment resisting lead role] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Soviet Ambassador letter to Ingham (Moscow press conference transcript) [rejects reproach from G7] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for No.10 ("Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Incident") [proposed study by Chief Scientists] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Treasury Solicitor minute for Howe ("Lieutenant Sethia: Production of Diary") [outcome of the hearing of the Summons issued by the Observer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 252 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86 in Vancouver") [arrangements for Royal Ballet performance] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit: Autumn 1986") [possible dates, French hosting, best before December European Council] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: MT letter for Dutch PM Ruud Lubbers (international co-operation to fight drug trafficking) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon PS briefing for No.10 (“Big Bang”) [Financial Services Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of General Dental Practitioners’ Association letter to MT (Review Bodies pay awards) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Pay Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Pay Review Body Reports 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers Pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“my Department has already gone a long way towards developing the sort of systems envisaged”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Chernobyl, prison officers’ dispute] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rifkind letter to Howe (Welfare of battery hens - Council Directive 86/113/EEC) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind letter to Whitelaw (Paper for E(LF) meeting: 'Local Government finance studies: Scotland: proposed grant arrangements') ["...changes to the grant distribution arrangements needed with the introduction of a community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Hull Forms for Warships) ["... Lord Hill-Norton's report... which is very prejudiced, contains nothing new... the suggestions of impropriety... are properly a matter for the courts... principal recommendation... that an... inquiry should be established... We have nothing to hide..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Energy Secretary Peter Walker) [MT rejects Walker's proposal to visit Moscow for briefing from Soviets] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: MT letter to Walter Marshall (thanks for his letter briefing her on the disaster) ["a real gem, full of insight and wisdom and so invaluble for our briefing for the Summit"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [civil service paper on "likely effects of political and economic developments in South Africa on the... [UK's] economic stake there"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Declarations by Candidates in Northern Ireland Elections") [consultation on proposal that candidates take an oath to neither support nor assist activities of proscribed organisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 461 to FCO (0015Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary-General's Initiative") [intends to treat Kyprianou's response as a bluff and seek to call it] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [MT not ready to support any more of the Secretary-General's deadlines] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: Prospects for the Survey”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure: Meeting at 9.30 am on Friday, 9 May”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Roskill Report”) [serious fraud: Government action on report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Younger, Tebbit, Clarke, MacGregor, Wakeham, Luce, Hayhoe) [review body on pay increases: reports] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education Bill”) [crime prevention, freedom of speech in higher education, political indoctrination in school] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl fears, local elections/by-elections, unions, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Development of the Property Repayment System”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Workfare”) [“someone can now carry on receiving benefit as unemployed without ever having to go near a job centre”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Training Provided by the Armed Forces”) [MOD article on benefits for the wider economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar (Tokyo Economic Summit: international terrorism, the developing countries, trade protectionism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [letter from UN Secretary General: draft reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Booth minute for Powell (“Extradition and Tokyo”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Chun Doo Hwan of Republic of Korea letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: the unification of Korea) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 note to MT (prison officers' dispute: PA review) [MT request for report; No.10: "Appendix 9 hints at the abuses."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Peres 'Marshall Plan'") ["...Peres is sincere in his belief that a major rescue act is required to prevent further economic collapse in the region, the consequence of which could... bring war closer..."; MT visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Attorney General minute to Younger ("The Calcutt Report") ["...apparent inconsistency..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Local authority spending and rate support grant") ["...the major problem in this year's public expenditure survey"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ('Chernobyl') [Department of the Environment statement; EC debating action on food imports from affected areas] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute to Powell ("New Yugoslav Federal Government: Messages") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("Falkland Islands: Mine Clearance") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Tokyo Summit: declaration on South Africa) ["major practical difficulties in the way of agreeing a statement... short reference to South Africa at the joint press conference... very pleased the the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons] Group has now decided to return to Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Letter from Francis Noel-Baker") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-MacGregor-Whitelaw) [public expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (journalism, Chernobyl reactor still smouldering) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (football, by-elections, top salaries, Chernobyl) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Young minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 May 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 334 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86") [invitation arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [the forthcoming meeting with Sir Ibbs: agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Workfare”) [concerns about proposed extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel") [proposed agenda for discussions from Shimon Peres via Israeli Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Cradock minute to Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...worried that our Middle East policy is [coming to be] seen as virtually indistinguishable from that of the United States, even that of Israel..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Young ("British Shipbuilders (BS): establishment of Enterprise Corporation and other measures to assist the areas hardest hit by redundancies") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Lord Hill-Norton (Hull Forms for Warships) ["Your report deals with several technical matters on which Ministers obviously cannot express an opinion without professional advice. We are prepared therefore to commission an inquiry"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram 79 to FCO (0800Z) (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [situation coming under control] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Lord President, Soviet Ambassador) [Chernobyl accident: media coverage & seriousness of the incident] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council, 12 May 1986: Budget and Own Resources”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Review Body Recommendations”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet high level consultations”) [Shevardnadze-Hartman talks: Shevardnadze “said that the Soviet Union favoured dialogue but that circumstances were not yet right for a meeting between himself and Shultz”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending policy, Chernobyl, economy, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Scottish party conference, Chernobyl, foreign visitors] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with Sir Robin Ibbs: Value for Money targets”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Edwards letter to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Robin Ibbs) [the Nimrod project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Home Office letter to Prison Officers' Association (industrial dispute) [No.10: "To an inexpert eye, there are no signs of a climbdown here."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ('Chernobyl') [new information given to western Ambassadors; "small step ... towards more sensible and civilised behaviour"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: MT message to Yugoslav Prime Minister (congratulations on his appointment as the President of the Federal Executive Council) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP visit to South Africa") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Ramphal account of Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("'EXPO 86: Vancouver") [need to thin MT's programme down and focus on promotion of British trade] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 178 to FCO (1300Z) ("The Cyprus Problem: UN Secretary General's Initiative") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for Francis Noel-Baker (Secretary-General's initiative on Cyprus) [the recognition of "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" would 'deepen the divide'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, tax and public expenditure, follow up to the Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Younger, Fowler, Tebbit, Clarke, Wakeham, Luce) [“Review Body Reports”: pay increases proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“TSRB”) [review body pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education Bill: Political Indoctrination”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute for MT (“How to Get Better Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (John Biffen’s position, tax concessions, defence statement) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Kate Jenkins) [value for money targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John Moore letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation: draft White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Workfare”) [defense of proposed pilot extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]

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