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PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("Home Affairs Select Committee: Inquiry into Broadcasting") [DSB services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Michael Darlow letter to David Young ("Independent Television Producers") [competition in supply of programmes] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: MT message to Brian Mulroney (Canada-US trade deal) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister to Turkey") [MT concerns that her programme might be restricted on Friday "given that Turkey is a Muslim country"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Major letter to Baker ("Education Reform Bill: additional items") [specific grant for travellers' children and refugees] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [income support levels] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Grist minute to John Major ("NHS Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [monitoring of health authorities' spending] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [need for such disclosure] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Publication of 1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachevs letter to MT (General Secretary's meeting with the Prime Minister, en route to Washington) [thanks for hospitality; New Year greetings] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson PS letter to No.10 ("1988 Budget day") [possible dates; MT: "Just check that the Ides of March are NOT the 15th!"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wakeham minute to Ken Clarke ("Publicising Government Grants") ["the Government does not get credit for these grants"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson letter to Michael Darlow (Independent Production Initiative) [negotiations between producers, ITV levy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Contacts with Canada") [possible visits, timing of NATO Summit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO record of conversation (1030Z) (Howe, Armacost) ["Afghanistan: Armacost's Visit to London": sitrep; Geneva talks; impressions from visit to Islamabad] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Lawson PS (Bundesbank profits) [request for comment on Financial Times report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter for MT (thanking for the good wishes for recovery) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nigeria: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister 7-8 January") ["most successful visit ... establishing "close and friendly relationship with President Babangida"; British press 'deplorable'] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("National Curriculum: Report of the Task Group on Assessment and Testing") ["I believe that its recommendations will greatly strengthen our hand"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Whitelaw resignation, NUM, security, economy) ["you leave power struggle open by declining to nominate new deputy Prime Minister"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Italian PM Goria (thanks) [MT now longest serving British PM of 20th Century] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for telemessage) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Paul Getty (thanks) [thank you for everything you do for our country] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Alhaji Udu (thanks) [arrangements for MT's visit to Nigeria] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Mary Whitehouse (thanks) ["Your own work to promote higher standards and civilised values has been tireless"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Michel Camdessus (IMF Structural Adjustment Facility) ["essential that the increased resources now be deployed carefully, in support of strong adjustment programmes"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: MT to Neil Kinnock (BP) [Kuwait Investment Office's holding of BP shares] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Butler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Sherpa") ["These Sherpas' meetings have got out of hand"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Market Report: 11 January") [MT: "Acquiring MORE DOLLARS?!"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Contacts with Canada") [timing of possible meeting with Mulroney] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKA despatch to FCO ("Annual Review for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) for 1987") [relations with East Germany, economic situation, political situation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1987 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT ("Educational Reform in Scotland: school management") ["fundamental objective... immediate replacement of school councils... with bodies at individual school level in which parents are fully involved"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS (Task Group on Assessment and Testing) [publication of report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor of the Exchequer 13 January, 5.30") [the Markets; Governor of the Bank of England; Kuwait/BP/Britoil; forestry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Labour in crisis, industry) [growing crisis on health service policies] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [Rifkind argues government should apply policies on housing, education and privatisation "more determinedly in Scotland"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Meeting with Lord Goold: Wednesday 13th January 1988") [to discuss current state of the party in Scotland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Griffiths-O'Sullivan minute ("Scotland. The Election Result") ["worst result for the Tories since 1945" - "a low reservoir of Conservative support North of the Border"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Briefing Line") [Treasury unhappy with tenor of DOE arguments against relating CC to ability to pay] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Brian Mulroney message to MT (Toronto Economic Summit) ["the dramatic economic developments since we last met would suggest more emphasis on economic discussions"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to Hurd PS ("Memorandum for Select Committee On Home Affairs") [intention to introduce wide-ranging reforms] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (defence cooperation) [concern about separate defence arrangements between France and European countries, more to do bilaterally] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["NHS continues to dominate"], DTI revamp, industry, NHS, nurses, free food, politics, education, law & order, media, sport) [Tebbit, Heseltine and Brittan combine to criticise government plans to end automatic regional aid grants] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Government: MT to Neil Kinnock (request for file from Macmillan papers) [file is closed but some infomation could be released confidentially] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [MT visit to Africa; Howe visit to Japan; Defence matters; Middle East; Europe] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Wakeham ("Community Charge: Safety Nets") [shifts in tax burden] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chancellor ("Treatment of National Non-Domestic Rate") [Treasury preference for including NNDR in the new planning total, DOE resisting strongly] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Lord Chancellor ("Local Authority Committees") ["the question of balanced representation"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Lord Chancellor ("Response to the Select Committee - Local Ombudsman recommendations") [measures to improve rate of compliance by local authorities] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Sino-Soviet Relations: Gorbachev's Call for a Summit") [analysis of the impact of a recent Gorbachev interview granted to Chinese journal] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Ridley letter to Baker ("Education Reform Bill: additional items") ["specific grant for the education of travellers' children and refugees"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Financial delegation to schools") ['Local Management of School' indepent report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Major ("GM schools: enforcing the recoupment charge") [Education Reform Bill: recovery of grants to grant-maintained schools from local education authorities] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Hurd (Education Reform Bill) [endowments] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Future of ILEA" (Inner London Education Authority)] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, NHS reforms, economy, law and order, NATO) [Liberals and SDP in turmoil after fiasco over merger] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("NHS: Principles and Reforms") [reforms must meet five criteria] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 1st (Lord Whitelaw, Membership of the Cabinet, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: No.10 letter to Law Officers’ Department (No.10 press office role in ‘Spycatcher’ and related litigation) [case for “Law Officers Department to establish own facilities for dealing with the press”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("National Curriculum: Task Group on Assessment and Testing (TGAT) Report") ["the Report's sympathies and conclusions are... disturbing..."] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, law and order, Shepherd Bill, NHS, Labour) [Steel's merger shambles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan minute for MT ("Footsteps in the fog: the DHSS view") [critique of its paper on NHS reform] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Moore minute for MT ("The NHS") [DHSS proposals for NHS reform] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner cities") ["a note about future work... important that we minimise the scope for further disputes about Ministerial responsiblities"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("The National Health Service") ["we must introduce a more dynamic market into health service"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("The treatment of the Community Charge in the RPI") [Lawson: "lamentably shoddy note from DE" <Department of Employment>] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Home Office draft memorandum for Commons Home Affairs Committee (DBS inquiry) [overcoming spectrum scarcity; No.10 comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Rank Organisation and Pay-TV") [costs of satellite TV, standards] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("Young Moore's Almanack: Second Thoughts on the DHSS Paper") [lacks a sharp sense of direction] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("The NHS Crisis: A Priorities Approach") ["the NHS is a Socialist institution"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS (Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire) [Conservative M.P. constituency closures; MT: "This case is a terrible mess"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor 19 January") [interest rates/the Markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Budget, Liberals/SDP, sport, law and order) [Kill or cure for Moore in health row] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Miss Wilson (MT's school records) [would be wrong to release the records] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke minute to MT ("Inner cities") [White Paper, Roadshows & other initiatives] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Nigel Wicks (second Sherpas meeting) [arrangements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Major PS minute to Moore PS (spending) [figures used in parliamentary debate] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Opposition NHS Debate 19 January 1988") [speech on need for reform] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd (independent producers) [contracts, reports by BBC, IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Turkey") [agrees 'Scenario 2' arrangements, on assumption full programme possible on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Academic tenure: Commissioners") [appointments to oversee removal of academic tenure in universities under terms of Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Party Political Broadcast") [Tony Jay script - "a great nation on the move ... a new spirit abroad in the land ... The people who came here ten years ago to study the illness now come here to study the cure"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, health funding, Liberals/SDP, Labour Listens) [Sort NHS out, Moore is ordered] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting with Scottish ministers to discuss how to improve the party's position, Rifkind and Policy Unit have prepared papers] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT to Peter Carrington (public lecture on USSR) ["It would be marvellous if you would do it"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [liability of income-support recipients] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (CPS enquiry) [danger of conveying official blessing on CPS's work] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hurd & Rifkind memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 1 (War Crimes) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("Independent Production Initiative") [IBA proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Michel Rocard") [French presidential elections, French economy, EC issues, east-west issues] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with M. Rocard") [Rocard's political position, European defence, EC, east-west relations] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, Liberals/SDP) [Mixed reviews for John Moore's performance in NHS debate] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute ("American Television Interviews") [MT's views on INF ratification] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Fowler, Ridley, Lord Young, Clarke, Channon, Major, Richard Wilson, Eric Sorensen, Hartley Booth) ["Inner Cities": media launch of 'Action for Cities' White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: No. 10 Press Notice ("Prime Minister's Personal Representative for Economic Summits") [Wicks' appointment] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Hong Kong debate; Crown Agents; Syria; Nigeria; Trident; NATO summit; European Council; Jordan/Tornado; European Commission] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Walker letter to Ridley ("Local Government Bill") [Development Board for Rural Wales] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Contacts with Canada: Commonwealth Committee on South Africa") [UK will not become involved with committee's work] [declassified Dec 2016]

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