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PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Richard Luce letter to Baker ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") ["...protecting consumer interests..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("Marine science and technology") [Government response to House of Lord select committee report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Prime Minister Mugabe letter to MT (Zimbabwe's relations with the ANC and South Africa) [angry response to perceived MT insinuation of Zimbabwean compliance in ANC attacks and "a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute for MT (“DHSS Video for Young People on Drug Misuse”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [MacGregor or Ken Clarke to head inderdepartmental review of Roskill? MT opts for MacGregor] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan minute for MacGregor (“Fraud”) [thanks for "speedy positiive response" to request for additional resources] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Future of the Top Salaries Review Body”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1986 Budget Day”) [timing of announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Biassed teaching and political indoctrination in schools and colleges”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Grant-aided schools”) [Keith Joseph proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [disappointed that Government will not be making claims] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Sherbourne minute for MT ("Prime Minister") ["The most damaging effect … has been to show the Government and you looking, uncharacteristically, as though you are not in control"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Sherbourne minute for Powell & others ("Briefing for the Prime Minister after Mr Heseltine's Resignation") ["difficult questions which the PM can expect to get in the House" - list] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Heseltine resignation) [“Tarzan goes to war”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights for MT (Westland, economy) [“Heseltine’s resignation will dominate the weekend media”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (“Departmental Responsibility for Tribunals”) [Cabinet Office report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Mr Heseltine's Statement") ["knocking copy … in rather polemical terms"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Howe (direct private investment overseas) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 12 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Alastair Buchan letter to MT (seminar on crime prevention) [school security initiatives following MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 13 January: Westland”) [points for decision - government statement on Monday? how to respond to Cuckney letter on NADS?] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ex-King Constantine's Son") [Howe concerned at prospect of a leak on Prince Paul's starting at Sandhurst] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 60 to UKE Washington (1300Z) ("Chemical Weapons") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: FCO briefing for MT (UK-Japan 2000 Group post-Second Conference lunch) [summary of Conference discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition: residuary bodies") [Chairmanship of the Merseyside Residuary Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Brittan letter to Baker ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") [draft "...sets out well the case for privatisation..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Claude Hankes-Drielsma letter to MT (Dr. Fritz Leutwiler meeting with the Prime Minister) ["to convey to you his personal impressions subsequent to his meeting with President Botha and many others in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“June European Council”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office minute for No.10 (“Police Report on the Tottenham Riot”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Home Office minute for No.10 (“Roskill Report”) [Home Secretary’s revised statement] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 2 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1986) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howard letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [requests amendment in relation to CAA powers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (‘Westland’) [first draft of speech for Wednesday's debate] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT notes (speech preparation) [six points] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (“Mark 1A”) [draft of speech for 15 Jan debate] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (“Mark 2”) [draft of speech for 15 Jan debate] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (“Westland: Statement”) [draft Brittan Commons statement] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [speculation over how MT will handle Heseltine’s allegations] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“Westlands will unfortunately dominate this week”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MacGregor letter to Younger (NADS recommendations) [important not to restrict ability to seek international competitive tender when purchasing helicopters] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Tebbit, Younger, Havers, Wakeham; Armstrong, Whitmore, Michelle) [Brittan to make HC statement that afternoon] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan draft HC statement (correcting earlier statement) [Sir Austin Pearce letter] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Clarke letter to Hurd (Popplewell Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds) [recommendation to relax controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (“Popplewell Report: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants”) [safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Hurd PS (“Mr. Justice Popplewell’s Final Report”) [MT concerns about proposed response to Inquiry into Safety and Control at Sports Grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke ("Australian Bicentenary: British Gift") [commission of ship] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 42 to FCO (1149Z) ("CFL: Treaty Signature") [French suddenly claim President Mitterrand constitutionally impeded from signing treaty, but will still attend ceremony] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [completion of projects will demonstrate government's determination to overcome PIRA campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Younger PS minute to Tebbit PS ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [providing RUC support without an unacceptable level of strain on armed forces already serving] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (international affairs: disarmament) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Airbus A300-600) [mooted All Nippon Airways contract falls through; MT presses for reassurances from Japanese Government with regard to other pending contract bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 minute: Addison to Powell (Japanese Finance Minister) [Treasury advice that MT meet with Noboru Takeshita during his weekend in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Research and Development priorities across Government") [MISC 119 report; "It has frankly proved to be a very difficult exercise... the main problem was over defence R&D..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King letter to Brittan ("Legal action against Arthur Andersen and Co (AA)") [Government taking Anderson to court over the firm's role in the collapse of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries") [Younger fully endorses Howe's proposal to seek a multilateral fisheries regime in the South Atlantic] [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: NSC memorandum for Poindexter (need to energise State Department) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Tom King minute for Douglas Hurd (“Confiscation of the Profits of Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [stores promotion & commercial worth] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Treasury minute to Department of Trade and Industry (“Lloyds and the Financial Services Bill”) [wants early report by enquiry in case need to amend Bill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Ridley note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 3 (Channel Fixed Link) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“I have stressed to BAA the need to keep their settlement as low as possible”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Property Services Agency”) [proposed restructuring, ongoing reduction in management tiers, staff cuts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (“Mark 2”) [draft of speech for 15 Jan debate, as annotated by MT] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister's Questions, 14 January, 1986”) [line to take & notes for supplementaries] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, Defence, Economy, Industry) [Brittan fighting for his political life] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute to MT (draft reply to Pearce) [Lygo meeting with Brittan, 9 Jan] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Final Popplewell Report”) [safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Mr Churchill’s Bill on Obscene Publications”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit Meeting in Lille on 20 January") [French want lunchtime speeches kept brief, MT agrees attendance of leader of Kent County Council] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Gorbachev Message to the Prime Minister about Disarmament") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of the Environment record of conversation ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker, Rifkind, Ancram, Waldegrave] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Illegal Community Budget for 1986: UK Action”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker class action settlement: claims by government departments”) [“if Government Departments are not to submit claims… Parliament should be told”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Armstrong note for Wicks (“The Speech”) ["a little unhappy" about draft; make clear that MT said timetable would allow for further meeting] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Ingham note for Powell (‘Charles’) [how to characterise MT speech for lobby briefing at 11] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Wicks minute [for MT] (Whitelaw comment on 15 Jan speech draft; also Armstrong wording) [tone, balance & content right; suggests different wording on meeting that did not take place] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Heseltine versus Brittan] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Biffen (Immigration cases) [draft guidance for handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Howe (“Visas”) [review following immigration control crisis, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Expo '86: Vancouver") [possible programme options] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKREP The Hague telegram 27 to FCO (1715Z) ("Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam") [arrest of two men who escaped from The Maze] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute to FCO ("Turkish TV Request for Interview with the Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 115 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Statement on Arms Control") [text of President Reagan's statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Gorbachev's Statement on Arms Control") [nuclear weapons and space, renunciation of space weapons, US/Soviet testing moratorium] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to MT (Spain's accession to the European Community) [thanks MT for attending Embassy Reception to mark the occasion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to No.10 (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [travel arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“European Community: Intergovernmental Conference”) [work environment requirements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Budget”) [meeting with Lawson] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Public expenditure priorities for the next Parliament”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [teachers’ perspective] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 2nd (cabinet membership, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland, Channel Fixed Link) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 117 to FCO (1710Z) (“US/Soviet nuclear and arms control negotiations: US approach to Geneva Round IV”) [“There are no significant new elements in the President’s instructions”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Biffen letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill”) [amendment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“The Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service”) [“to remove artificial barriers which can obstruct the selection of the right people for jobs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [coverage of new Heseltine allegations] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 (“Mr. Justice Popplewell’s Final Report”) [football clubs membership cards proposal to address hooliganism] [declassified 2014]

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