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PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: Attendance by National Representatives") ["None of these people should... attend any of the formal sessions... there will, however, be mingling in the margins"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (fighter aircraft) [proposal for European study and programming group] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [suggestion that Brian Mawhinney is included in internal meeting of Northern Ireland Office on presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [King suggests amendments; response to allegations of leaks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1610 to UKE Washington (1116Z) ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Mitterrand letter to MT (European Fighter Aircraft: cooperation in military aircraft design and production) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Memorandum on the 8th and 14th Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 1984/85) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report on the Review of Social Security") [Green Paper proposals; consultation reactions; proposed modifications; main issues; pensions; other social security policy proposals; timing; interaction with local government finance proposals; future processing; handling; conclusions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What Should We Do About SERPS?") [options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [MISC 111, banking supervision, exchange rate mechanism, Green Paper on taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Lawson (“Green Paper on Personal Taxation: Effect on Married Women’s Incentive to Work”) [overseas experience suggests no disincentive] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Lawson (“Green Paper: Who are the ‘Losers’?”) [hardly any, but there are "non-gainers"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Michael Fidler (Jordanian/Palestinian delegation to London) [“Our decision to receive a delegation in London is intended to strengthen the resolve of moderate Palestinians to make progress”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Industrial action by CPSA at Companies Registration Office”) [“a firm stand is needed, especially in view of the programme of improvements in efficiency over the next several years”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (“Information Pack: British Policy Towards South Africa”) [need to “get across how much Britain is already doing to promote peaceful change”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland letter to MT (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”) [resolutions on South Africa - apartheid, violence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO (“South Africa at CHOGM”) [Tanzanian views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Masire letter to MT (Commonwealth strategy on apartheid) [South African punitive measures against Botswana] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s message”) [President Kaunda views on apartheid and sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Treasury minute to No.10 (“PWLB Lending to Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (birthday message) [hopes their understanding on priority problems will remain, needs political wisdom and goodwill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (disarmament: the new Soviet initiatives) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (maintain usual diplomatic channels) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (Commonwealth strategy on apartheid) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Young PS ("Deregulation, City Action Teams and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (European Regional Development Fund: non-quota measures) [line to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; EC policy towards Japan; EC en largement/trade; Internal Market Council, 7 Oct; 1986 EC draft Budget/UK VAT abatement; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: wording of Agreement; joint press release and presentation; communique; Ulster Defence Regiment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: wording of Agreement; joint press release and presentation; communique; Ulster Defence Regiment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish talks: press leaks) [Irish Government alleges that British Cabinet Minister has shown draft Agreement to media] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: date of summit; concern about Unionist attempts to "wreck" Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Ian Paisley MP and Jim Molyneaux MP (Anglo-Irish talks) ['I can only repeat my assurance that, whatever emerges from our negotiations...there is no threat whatsoever to the Union'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Utilities: Redwood minute to MT ("Water Rates and Gas Charges") ['recent press stories about the Treasury seeking to pay for tax cuts by forcing up people's water rates and gas bills are damaging'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Electricity and Gas EFLs") [overshoots of External Financing Limits for electricity supply industry and British Gas attributable to coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Address by the US Secretary of State George Shultz before the 31st Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly ("Arms Control, Strategic Stability and Global Security")
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw & Wakeham PS letter to Hailsham PS ("Carrying the Cap of Maintenance at the State Opening of Parliament") [ceremonial arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985) [request for approval] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of Korea") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security and Local Authority Finance") [analysis of the combined impact of proposed changes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Review of Social Security: The Next Steps") [thoughts on the proposed abolition/modification of the state-earnings-related pension scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC 111 tomorrow") [Social Security review: summary of papers for the meeting; proposed Cabinet Office further study on impact of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Cost of SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 111") [Social Security reform: "If we are driven back to draining SERPS rather than abolishing it, it is important to set fairly penal rates for those remaining in SERPS. Norman Fowler should be invited to produce final proposals along these lines"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Tom King letter to Fowler ("Social Security Reforms") ["universally and vociferously criticised in Northern Ireland"; highlights specific issues; "will need to have convincing arguments in defending the Government's position"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of Social Security (MISC 111 (85) 14") [SERPS; other social security measures] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd minute to MT (MISC 111: Review of Social Security: State-Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)) [Hurd now in favour of retaining SERPS whilst limiting open-ended nature of commitment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Hurd minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - which level of road deliveries is best] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“The most carefully sieved speech that we have ever done!”]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John MacGregor minute for Douglas Hurd (“Handsworth”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note for MT (presentation of macro-economic policy) [“unhelpful article” in FT shows why Chancellor concerned] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“a settlement at the level of the opening offer would be unhelpful for other public trading sector negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to George Younger (Running Costs) [“I want to make an early announcement confirming the decision to move to control of running costs and ending the pay assumption”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Howe (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [Select Committee scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“I feel that there would be merit in… an alternative method”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Prime Minister’s Statement on the World Political Scene”) [tighter structure needed, expand section on Non-Proliferation Treaty] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“CHOGM: Briefing Meeting”) [handling of situation in South Africa, bilaterals with other leaders] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Brunei Shell Petroleum”) [“The situation requires delicate handling”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa on the eve of CHOGM”) [“Government’s worst handicap is a virtual loss of credibility among blacks”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Mulroney of Canada (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to James Barber (Fellowship Programme for black South Africans) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Nigel Lawson minute to MT (“Common Agricultural Policy”) [Michael Jopling’s letter: support measures for agricultural production] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Prosecuting Solicitors' Society of England and Wales (The Crown Prosecution Service) [remuneration proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King minute to MT ("Lear Fan") [development of new aircraft at Aldergrove: liquidation of Lear Fan company] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) ["Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Walker letter to Hurd (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [theft from gas & electricity coin meters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Treasury ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: MT request for Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Lord Hailsham letter to Tony Newton ("Green Paper Proposals for New Pension Arrangements") ["county courts are quite inappropriate for your proposals regarding coercive orders"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 29th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen’s Speech) [Tottenham riot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Pollution”) [Baker proposals for new inspectorate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Anna Jones (education seminar: points on the future of education) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to John Wright (education seminar: Roy Honeyford’s attendance) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute (“World Economic Prospects: Autumn 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“Department of the Registers of Scotland… is an important element in achieving our policy of extending home ownership in Scotland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [Commonwealth Liaison Group] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO record of conversation (“Senior Officials Meeting 15 October 1985”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: FCO minute (“CHOGM: UNICEF - Global Immunisation”) [briefing ahead of possible CHOGM discussion] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Edward Seaga statement (joint IMF-Commonwealth Caribbean Group of Countries meeting) [need for reform] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Geoffrey Howe minute to Kenneth Baker (“CHOGM and the Gleneagles Agreement”) [“we do not have the power to limit individual freedoms in the sort of way others may have”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Machel letter to MT (bilateral cooperation and situation in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Banking Supervision”) [Treasury proposals to be discussed at a meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: George Younger minute to MT (“Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT (gas purchase negotiations and gas privatisation) ['I believe your office's suggestion...that you should write to Denis Rooke...is misconceived'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd minute for Howe ("Macau") [Portugese passport holders' special status vis-a-vis EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("New government") [messages of congratulations from MT and Howe to incoming/outgoing PMs and Foreign Ministers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, MacGregor, Raison] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Brittan letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of option Clauses 25 and 46”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kaunda) [how to avoid bloodshed in South Africa, question of sanctions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney) [Commonwealth action on South Africa meaningless unless UK involved, Mulroney suggests UK propose package of measures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Shell Petroleum (negotiations with Brunei government) [will take up the matter with the Sultan in Nassau] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Maputo telegram to FCO (“Machel’s message to Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]

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