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PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Sex Discrimination and Shops Bills”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to Brittan (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [PIRA attempts to intimidate building contractors who carry out work for security forces] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Public Bodies 1985”) [key statistics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the National Consumer Council letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [informal briefing for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ridley letter to Brittan ("Arthur Andersen and Co") [LRT contract not to be renewed in light of Andersen's involvement in failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd; other firms to be invited to tender] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Defence ("Broad-beamed warship design") [MT wants Heseltine to give the matter his personal attention] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future Legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["You will see that we are bidding for only two major programme Bills in 1986/87... Copyright... [and] Consumer Goods and Services..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Wicks minute for MT (bilaterals with cabinet colleagues) [proposed regular one-on-one meetings with selected colleagues; MT agrees] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Channel Fixed Link: Commercially Sensitive Aspects of the Assessment") [draft PQ on Government's position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary minute for MT (Westland) [“the European solution would mean less competition and therefore increased costs”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Sir John Cuckney (reply to his letter of 13 Dec) [refers him to Brittan statement 16 December] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (‘Fraud’) [ministerial meeting tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Roskill Report’) [summary & comment] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4460 to FCO (1721Z) (“IGC: Brussels 16/17 December”) [Inter-Governmental conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4458 to FCO (1715Z) (“Foreign Affairs Council: 17 December 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [appointments for the Court of the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The teachers’ pay disputes: minute from the Lord President dated 12 December”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Teacher’s pay”) [pressure for enquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Alison note to MT (Michael Heseltine) [“he is not looking for an occasion to resign, & hopes - I judge - that he will not be sacked!”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 ("Departmental Responsibility for Heritage") [neither Office of Arts and Libraries nor DOE now want change; MT: "Leave well alone"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention”) [material for MT-chaired seminar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Kohl/Mitterrand meeting") ["...the press again underlines the 'emptiness' of present Franco-German relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible call by Foreign Minister of Japan: 21 January 1986") [Howe recommends MT meet with Shintaro Abe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Government reply to the Report for House of Lords select committee on overseas trade") ["...causes and implications of the deficit on the... [UK]'s balance of trade in manufactures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Terence Higgins MP (Government reply to the First Report from the Liaison Committee (Session 1984-85) on the Select Committee system) ["... the new Departmentally-related select committees set up in 1979 have now established themselves as a major, successful Parliamentary reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 11 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Annex J] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to MacGregor ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL): A Possible EIB Loan") [European Investment Bank: "we should scrutinise carefully the guarantee arrangements which are proposed"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heseltine briefing press) [information from “my friend in the MOD”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (‘Fraud’) [MT, Brittan, Havers] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1067 to FCO (1430Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference in Brussels: Italian Press reaction”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the Education Committee (teachers’ pay) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [“there is no question of an attack on your block budget”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Patrick Mayhew (“DPP: Staffing of Fraud Work”) [“It is the quality and experience of staff employed on fraud work which may most need to be tackled”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (ultimatum "drafted but not sent") [“In this situation no Minister should use his position to promote one commercial option in preference to another - so long as he remains in Government”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (Winston Churchill M.P.’s Bill to amend the Obscene Publications Act) [recommended approach to handling of the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo/Italian Summit") [MT not prepared to accede to Italian requests to arrive the evening before] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Brittan minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [update on progress of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Declaration of the Ten on East/West Relations”) [MT concurs with view that statement is vacuous and that FCO should be pressed not to endorse such statements in future] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John Wheeler MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [advice in advance of MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar: 8 January”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: David Trippier PS letter to No.10 (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Change in Soviet Arms Control Positions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [need for an alternative to GEC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German political scene") ["...the Coalition... looks far better prepared than the Opposition for the Election Campaign Year 1986. The economy is doing well by any standards."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee on Tuesday 17 December") [radioactive waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Edward du Cann) ["Salary of the Comptroller and Auditor General"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to MT (Prime Minister González letter to Mrs Thatcher) [cover note only] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 7th ("Control of Local Authority Capital Expenditure") [also national non-domestic rates, interaction with housing benefit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 6th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 12 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Annex F] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Draft Cabinet minutes (“Westland plc”) [line discussed & agreed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Transcript of BBC Nine O’Clock News (Brittan interview) [Powell: “pretty inoffensive, though a technical breach of the ceasefire”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [Westland ‘ceasefire’] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Conservative MPs (Financial Services Bill) [published today - more effective system of regulation] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Law Officers’s Legal Secretary letter to Norgrove (‘Fraud’) [case conference notes on Lloyds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (“The Common Agricultural Policy and European Food Surpluses”) [briefing note for Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1208 to FCO (1810Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference Brussels, 16/17 December: German reactions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MacGregor minute for Biffen (“Using Private Enterprise in Government Departments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: John MacGregor letter to Lord Chancellor (“TSRB Evidence: Judicial Salaries”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Pattie PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [no agreement between ITAP and government on forcing access to BT ducts and wires] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell note (draft formula for cabinet) [concession to Heseltine on circulation of Westland paper; MT: "Not necessary - SofS did not so request"] [released Jan 2017]
Text 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Secretary ("Departmental Responsibility for the Heritage") [MT believes it best "to leave matters alone"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [proposed deployment of additional battalion, background of PIRA violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Alison minute to Nigel Wicks (situation in Northern Ireland) [King apprehensive about situation deteriorating, feeling vulnerable and isolated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mark Carlisle MP PS letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to Hurd (“Prime Minister’s Crime Conference”) [advice in writing owing to prior commitment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Nimrod AEW: MacGregor's letter to Heseltine) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Legislation of 1986/87 and beyond") [manifesto ideas, with MT responses] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislation for 1986-87 and beyond") [thoughts on the legislative programme and Manifesto] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS note to No.10 (European Monetary System) [exchange controls] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (reform and negotiations) [visit to South Africa of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; ANC attacks close to Zimbabwe border - "frankly dismayed... hope that you will continue to use your influence to prevent such attacks"; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [Howe proposal for Lord Richardson to act as intermediary between MT & President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Possible South African raid into Lesotho") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link") ["ultimate decision is left to the risk investors and the banks backing them... we have to decide now which of the three schemes should go forward to this ultimate market test"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Westland”) [European offer made - “has quite a lot both for the bankers and the shareholders”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Patrick Mayhew minute to MT (Lloyds & Johnson Matthey) [state of investigations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [MT wants close interdepartmental cooperation with Middleton group on fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Powell minute for MT (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [“not really worth it for one day”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1072 to FCO (1400Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference in Brussels”) [Andreotti’s statement: Italy at a crossroads] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Younger (“Local Authority Current and Capital Expenditure: Scotland and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (statistics on young male offenders) [“extremely disturbing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform: Keith Joseph’s letter”) [assessment and suggestions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 21 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 957 to UKE Dublin (1715Z) ("Chief Constable's Alleged Statement") [wish to assure Irish government of commitment to continuing and developing cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman note (dinner receipts) [MT eats modestly in the Commons canteen] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary

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