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PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Major ("LDDC: Docklands Light Railway, eastern extension") [funding arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") ['Action for Cities' media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (tackling litter: press conference for new initiative) [Ridley minute and invitation to MT to attend; No.10 advises against; MT - "I should like to go"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, South African Ambassador Killen) [MT took "delivery of President Botha's reply to her recent message... She then said that she wanted to be frank... Apartheid was a basic grievance and it must go... she was disappointed by [Botha's] reply"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit preparation meeting") [French and US elections, world economy, macro-economic issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Meeting of Sherpas") [MT note: issue of "trade imbalances is the most important single thing"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review: Meeting on 8 February") [papers for Ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) NHS: John O'Sullivan notes ("Notes on the NHS Review") [early days yet, moving towards dedicated health tax with contracting out or competitive local health funds; 12 papers, 103pp] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Christopher Roberts ("Japanese proposal for an informal meeting of trade ministers") ["A meeting of the Seven Trade Ministers does risk being seen as some kind of extension of the G7 and Economic Summit machinery"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("External Television Broadcasting") [rejection of BBC's proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 48 to FCO (0830Z) ("Presidential Election") [Vassiliou wins] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [Howe's Soviet withdrawal & interim government and Western aid; note by David Hart] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Royal Commission of Environmental Pollution minute to No.10 ("The Royal Commission's Twelfth Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Land Rover strike, industry, domestic politics, NHS) [Ebullient report from CBI on state of economy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clarke) ["Action for Cities": review of draft document for media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Ridley ("UDCs - Merseyside and the Lower Don Valley") [feasibility study on extension of proposed areas] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Clarke ("Action for Cities") [comments on draft document in advance of media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler letter to Clarke ("Inner Cities information work") [secondment of press officer] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit") [East-West relations expected to be the major political issue, Middle East might also feature] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Science") [international co-operation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to DTI ("GATT: Agriculture: MTR") ["The main pressure for agriculture reform in the Uruguay Round as a whole will no doubt continue to come from the US"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Foreign Affairs Council; NATO summit; relations with USSR; Afghanistan; Waldheim; visit to Morocco] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: NUCAA Western Provincial Area letter to MT (health authorities) [shortage of funds due to years of mismanagement] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Review of Community Care") [difficulties in proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Roy Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("ITV Levy for Contract Extension Period") [options for changing levy base] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to MT ("The ITV System: ITN") [inclusion of monopoly reference] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (World TV) [timing of announcement] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Cradock minute for Powell ("Cyprus: The Elections") [implications of Vassiliou's victory] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 365 to FCO (1510Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, 21-23 February") [arms control; nuclear testing; Afghanistan] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Budget package; the markets; MT concerned about import figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Hamilton minute for MT (situation in Afghanistan) [Abdul Haq "says an agreement has been reached on the formation of an interim government to replace the communist regime"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Gaisman to Chief Whips' Office (Chequers lunch for whips) [arrangements] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, air safety, Land Rover, industry, media, NHS) [criticism of Paul Channon] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting on how to improve the presentation of the Conservative message and "implementation of radical policies which will break up the 'dependency culture'" which limits Conservative support] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Secretary of State for Energy minute for Margaret Thatcher ("Electricity Privatisation") [draft statement and White Paper ] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Nigel Wicks (second Sherpas meeting) [programme of discussions] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Briefing for Second Sherpas' Meeting") [Summit organisation, world economy, debt, trade and agriculture, financial market mechanisms] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("Meeting of Summit Sherpas in Quebec - 28/29 February") [MT "believes that the most important single task for the Summit is to secure further progress in the reduction of trade imbalances"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("Local Government Bill: disabled employment") [response to House of Lords defeat of proposed amendment] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chief Secretary's Speech to the PEWP Debate") [changes to NHS Review section] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("MISC 128: Concessionary Television Licences") [licences for pensioners and disabled people] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 289 to FCO (0906Z) ("Afghanista[n]: Alliance proposals for Interim Government") [details; advice on UK response] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Hurd (Education Reform Bill) [Baker opposed to proposed statutory power for Commission for Racial Equality to issue code of practice on discrimination & equality in education] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Peter Rost M.P. ("Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire") [apology and explanation for circumstances leading to school closures] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, BBC, Budget, NHS) [Anglo-Irish meeting amidst a sea of troubles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("NATO Summit: The Continuing Soviet Build-Up") ["Despite smooth Soviet words, the JIC sees no evidence ... that there has been any lessening of the threat"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Action for Cities document") [review of draft document for media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [comments on proposed draft reply] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Sir R Armstrong: University of Toronto Lecture Programme") [copy of draft text] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Briefing for the Second Sherpas' Meeting") [EC decisions on agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit preparations") [paper on fixed exchange rates] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Students and the Community Charge") [differences in treatment between England and Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [spreading the increases over five years] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Rate Reform: Caravans") [arrangements for England, Scotland, Wales] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to Paul Gray ("Roy Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [progress on NHS review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) World economy/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("European monetary construction: Italian views") [call on Treasury minister Amato; encloses Amato paper for Lawson] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires minute for Howe ("The Argentine Armed Forces in Society") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit, Toronto: 19-21 June 1988") [invitations for speaking engagements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [programme "now in a very acceptable shape"; "I am not at all sure that the PM has a burning ambition to convert an Istanbul audience to her politico/economic philosophy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO telegram 181 to UKE Islamabad (1430Z) ("Afghanistan: Advice to Pakistan") [lines to take] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 464 to UKE Islamabad (0405Z) (Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan) ["Further detail of US line to the Russians. US doubts about Cordovez's proposals for UN monitoring"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, EC VAT rules, domestic politics, electricity privatisation) [criticism of European bureaucrats taking liberties with British freedoms] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Social policy: MT to Lady Faithfull (letter on delivery of services) [progress made on dealing with child abuse, underage drinking, family services, juvenile justice] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: speaking note) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Christopher Roberts minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Japanese proposal for an informal meeting of trade ministers") [opinions of other G7 ministers] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: James Taylor to Nigel Wicks (meeting) [Japanese investment in the UK] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Students and the Community Charge") [registration and payment] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [limit on annual increase] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chancellor ("New planning total and NNDR (National Non-Domestic Rate)") [possible compromise with Ridley] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland, Electricity Privatisation) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Lady Faithfull (coordination of child welfare services) [response to her paper] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Economic Summit in Toronto") [MT approves travel arrangements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("British Satellite Broadcasting") [BSB's progress to date] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 53 to FCO (0840Z) (President-Elect Vassiliou message for MT) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 492 to FCO (1720Z) ("Possible Visit to the United States by the Prime Minister") [advice] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("NATO Summit, March 2-3, 1988, Brussels, Belgium") (NSPG ?0178) [preparations, plans, prospects; some in Europe worried Reagan Administration getting too close to the Soviets] [declassified Nov 1999]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 29 February") [Budget package; the markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Denis Thatcher note to No.10 Private Office ("Ref: Show Business Reception 18 April") [vetting list of stars] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, electricity privatisation, domestic politics, local government, NHS reforms) [electricity plans on the whole well received] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT to Saddam Hussein (clemency for prisoner) ["We very much welcome this gracious gesture of goodwill"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan minute for MT ("Keeping NHS reform on the rails") [analyses departmental viewpoints] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with President Reagan") [Howe wishes to attend; MT instructs him to head Howe off] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Mulroney") [televising Parliament; Canadian situation; G7; EC; bilateral issues - SSNs, RADARSAT, labelling of furs] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Visit to NATO") ["In general you were not impressed. The NATO Council has an air of torpor. We shall have to work hard to get a good result from the Summit: but we MUST get it"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 492 to FCO (1790Z) ("Possible Visit to the US by the PM") [Acland counsels Powell; "a visit may not be essential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Clarke PS ("Action for Cities: expenditure") [breakdown] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Business in the Community and Teeside") [proposal for reception at No.10] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Inner Cities - presentation") ["a few points about the handling... [of the media] launch"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Cabinet: NATO Summit") ["The Summit was OUR IDEA and it paid off"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Briefing for the Second Sherpas' Meeting") [financial market mechanisms, agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nigel Lawson ("National Non-Domestic Rates: Operation of the Pool") [a pool operated at arm's length] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance and Housing: Recent Proposals from Mr. Ridley") [non-domestic rate transition, privatisation, cash incentives] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing ("National Health Service") [consultants' contracts, costs, longer term reforms] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("NHS Charges") [eye tests, diabetic testing strips, prescriptions] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Rateable value of business property") [Lawson: "Why was I not alerted to this much sooner?"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [Lawson strongly opposes Ridley's 24 Feb proposal] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Falklands/Argentina") [Argentine proposals on fisheries and related issues] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Economic Summit in Toronto") [travel arrangements] [released July 2016]

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