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PDF 86 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant and Rate Capping: Total Expenditure") ["we are faced with an extremely serious problem... [since 1980] we have calculated a local authority's "total expenditure"... in a way that we must now acknowledge to have no lawful basis"] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Total Expenditure Bill") [Whitelaw, Ridley, Edwards, Biffen, MacGregor, Lang, Wakeham, Lord Denham] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 128: Meeting on Tuesday 2 December") [regulatory regime for local radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 565 to FCO (0845Z) ("The Greek Political Scene: An Update") [Papandreou is "in a corner", will "not be easy to deal with Greece over the coming months"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 1037 to FCO (1000Z) ("FRG Internal Political Round-Up") [coalition likely to be returned again at election] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE The Hague telegram 654 to FCO (0925Z) ("Visit of Dutch Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to Moscow") [reform; human rights; trade; SDI] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Michael Alison minute to MT (Commons support) [first meeting of backbench group] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Treasury minute to MOD ("ALARM") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Government response to the Fifth Report from the Environment Committee, Session 1985/86: Planning: Appeals, Call-In and Major Enquiries") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Unwin letter to Norgrove ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [problems with Department of the Environment] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets; Managing Director of IMF; Peter Walker/Sizewell decision; Bank of England directors; IMF: UK economy; dual resident companies ] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [Craxi agrees 11 Feb in London; Powell "Oh dear!"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Development") ["I know... that you have been worried about the strength of feeling in the south-east against over rapid development... It does, however, have some other advantages"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("South Cardiff urban renewal") [revised text of Ridley speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government': Caravans, Huts and Chalets") [do something to protect owners] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Lubbers, 1745 hours, 4 December") [key issues] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Hurd PS ("MISC 128: Green Paper on Radio Policy") [financing arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Francois Mitterrand message to MT (conference of African heads of state) [in French] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Francois Mitterrand message to MT (conference of African heads of state) [in French] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 570 to FCO (1140Z) ("Papandreou") [defence sale prospects, Greek defence and civil projects] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5 case, Kinnock speech in Atlanta) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (70th anniversary of the Cabinet Office) [MT expresses concern about draft article] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Channon minute to MT ("Japan") [summary of conversations with Prime Minister Nakasone and others in Tokyo] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Fowler ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill Community Charge Registration: Exchange of Information") [difficulty of registering social security recipients] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind mintue to John MacGregor ("Non-Domestic Rates: Indexation") [ceiling will be index-linked] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [consensus that domestic rates should be aboliished but no consensus on what should take their place] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister") [key issues] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“AIDS: Briefing to the Prime Minister”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (government appeals in MI5 case, Kinnock’s US visit, Reagan’s popularity ratings) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Intelligence: Michael Alison letter to Robert Armstrong (UK press reports) [“the idea that I would describe you in the terms alleged is grotesque”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("DROPS") [Younger letter to Gilmour: elimination of Broughtons from the competition] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (Wicks, Simon Dugdale) [DROPS: Broughton Ltd. against MOD] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Air Pollution Control: Consultation Paper) [new costs for local authorities] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Appeals") [role of the courts] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, van den Broek) [East/West relations; extradition of MacFarlane & Kelly; Van Agt appointment to Tokyo; EC internal issues; South Africa; new Managing Director of IMF] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [community radio operators] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Channon PS minute to Hurd PS ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [potential for radio interference] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to Geoffrey Howe ("World Television Service") [no question of licence fee support for BBC extending external services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Charles Powell note to Peter Lloyd (Greek navy) [will bring efforts to win an order to MT's attention] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 letter to UK Ambassador Washington (“International Conference on Private Sector Initiatives”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 40th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Rothschild tries to clear his name in MI5 case, Kinnock’s US visit, Reagan’s meetings with Colonel North) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Hailsham PS letter to No.10 (“Consultation with the Council on Tribunals”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: GEC letter to MT (why the Government should buy the Nimrod Airborne Early Warning System) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Willetts minute for MT ("Review of Community Care") [Fowler wants to announce Griffiths review] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (EC Heads of Government, plus Delors) [future financing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [Ridley wants to publish statement on proposals] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Total Expenditure Bill") [alternative timings & approaches] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards letter to Ridley (Total Expenditure Bill) ["coming under increasing pressure to announce the 1987/88 RSG Settlement for Wales"] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Agriculture: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting of Colleagues) [Jopling's "anxieties and position"; Campbell-Savours and national security] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Monetary Policy") [Lawson "dislikes the feeling that you have other channels of advice which may put arguments against what he wants"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Lawson PS ("Courtesy Call by French Ambassador, 24 November") [French, German positions on Airbus launch aid] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (latest polls, Rothschild and MI5 case, Kinnock’s US visit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Cabinet Office 1916-86”) [article] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chief Scientific Advisor minute to MT (“Second Joint Report of the Chairmen of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD) and the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Second Joint Report by the Chairmen of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD) and the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) (“The Science Base and Industry”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (AEI) EC: London European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("AWACS/Nimrod") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger PS letter for No.10 ("Project 'Moonflower'") [UK declining offer to buy Stealth aircraft "while the programme itself remains strictly black"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Clarke minute for Ridley ("Air Pollution Control: Consultation Paper") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [treatment of students] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Ridley PS ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [MT not convinced it would be right to aim to publish a document before Christmas] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Wales: Wicks briefing for MT (bilateral with Nick Edwards) [asks for an urgent "political and private talk"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (future of the South Atlantic Fund) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rifkind PS minute to David Norgrove (draft statement) [allocation of Scottish spending provision] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [coverage of views on controversial issues] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Green Paper on Radio Policy: Local Radio") [coverage of politically controversial issues] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Wicks ("DROPS") [Broughton Ltd. against MOD: situation within the Department] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute to Cabinet Office ("ALARM") [sale of Royal Ordnance to British Aerospace] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Group Captain Palmer letter to MT (the decision over Nimrod: his views) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Sherbourne minute for Wicks ("AWACS and Nimrod") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President of Boeing letter to MT (AWACS against Nimrod as the Airborne Early Warning System) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Call on Prime Minister Nakasone") [UK Ambassador: trade issues; political dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Hailsham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [proposals to be made public] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [need to to publish a document on how the charge would work] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Interest Rates") [joint paper by Treasury and Bank of England] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Monetary Policy and Interest Rates") [interest rate rise needed now, but so also is tight PSBR in budget] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (DSB) [ITN's proposal for news service] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Paul Channon ("World Administrative Radio Conference on High Frequency Broadcasting: Geneva, February 1987") [brief for political and technical preparation for conference] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [more preparatory work needed] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris letter to Bernard Ingham ("Prime Minister's Interview with Le Point") [variations between interview as delivered and as published] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation (sent 1100Z) (Howe, Shultz, Genscher, Raimond) ["Quadripartite Ministerial Meeting: Chevening: 9 December: Soviet Union/Eastern Europe"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Seventh Anniversary of Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan") [MT agrees to Sandy Gall ITV news interview] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (1030Z) (Howe, Shultz, Genscher, Raimond) ["Quadripartite Ministerial: Chevening: 9 December: CSCE": human rights] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5 case, European Community, British Gas, national curriculum) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Fairclough minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: OD (86) 20") [technology aspects of the choice between Nimrod and AWACS] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Nimrod/AWACs") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Channon minute for Younger ("E(RD) Remits to the Ministry of Defence") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: DTI minute to MOD (the Government decision regarding ALARM) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Griffiths minute for MT ("AEW: Nimrod and the E-3A") [technical risk; presenting the decision] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ingham minute for MT ("Nimrod/AWACS Presentation") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Chairman of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations letter to MT (visit to UK) ["The exchange of views with you... was very stimulating..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Whitelaw, Baker, Walker, Clarke & others) [Department of Environment agrees to take lead role in event of future nuclear accident outside UK] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO message to UKE Moscow ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [need for a statement of principle reaffirming government's commitment to replacing rates] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [Ridley wants to publish a document before Christmas] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [Ridley wants to publish statement on government's intentions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Total Expenditure Bill") ["Cabinet tomorrow is the last opportunity to inform all colleagues of what will be a very sensitive piece of legislation"] [declassified Oct 2016]

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