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PDF 87 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Italian ECU request, MT acceded "noting that we had little choice but to do so"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove ("Seminar on Broadcasting") [briefing material] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 note (Broadcasting Seminar) [communication with attendees] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 31 to FCO (0845Z) ("Land Elections in Schleswig Holstein and Bremen") [CDU lost overall majority, could form coalition] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker record of conversation ("The IAC") [Baker, Henry Chilver (Chair of Independent Advisory Committee)] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting on Tuesday 15 September 1987") [Conservative Foundation, Astor memorial plaque, GLA constituency chairmen, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nigel Lawson ("Effects of Domestic Revaluation") [could conduct a survey to measure impact] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("Survey: Social Security: Outstanding Commitments") [savings, child benefit uprating] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Diplomatic Service conditions of service] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks (Seminar on Broadcasting) [Rees-Mogg request to attend] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Seminar on Broadcasting") [response to Peacock report, media bill, new distribution system] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Andy Bearpark minute to Hurd PS ("Independent Oversight of Programme Standards") [case for establishing a broadcasting council] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Robert Armstrong (Seminar on Broadcasting) [Rees-Mogg request to attend] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT (Broadcasting Seminar) [bring out the fact that competition is coming willy-nilly] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Opting out of ILEA: maintained further education") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: John Redwood memorandum for MT ("Inner cities") [advice on Departmental lead; implementation strategy; sustainable funding; targets; staffing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Wicks ("Inner cities") [presentation of the policy; Ken Clarke best placed to lead it] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: FCO letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: Mineral Water") [MT wants mineral water on table for press conferences; "should not be Perrier"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [Diplomatic Service conditions of service] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove briefing for participants (Broadcasting Seminar) [guest list] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Boston Consulting Group letter to MT (Broadcasting Seminar) [the market needs more local broadcasting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MAI Managing Director letter to MT ("Pay Television in the United Kingdom") [service would provide a welcome additional choice] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Roger Gale letter to MT (Seminar on Broadcasting Policy) [the future of television] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Soviet Embassy letter to No.10 ('The Reality and Guarantees of a Secure World' by General Secretary Gorbachev) [text of article published in 'Pravda' & 'Izvestia'] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Opting out of ILEA: reserve powers") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Stephen Sherbourne minute (William Davis draft of conference speech) [election, economy, housing, inner cities, law and order] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cities: Terry Perks minute ("West Midlands Visit") ["There will be an opportunity to see more closely the mix of industrial dereliction and the progress being made to reclaim the land for private housing and small industry"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Inner cities policy: lessons from the American experience") [key points] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Effects of a Domestic Rate Revaluation") [opinion polls suggest government "has a long way to go in persuading the public to support the Community Charge proposals"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Effects of Domestic Revaluation") ["great need to go onto the attack"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("M0: Bankers' Balances") [explanatory note on balances at Bank of England] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("Survey 1987: Income-Related Benefit Rates") [need for adequate funds if to hold the line on the social fund] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove ("Broadcasting Seminar, 21 September") [video nasties] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove (Cable and DBS operators) [alternative technologies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Seminar on Broadcasting") [updated steering briefing] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gerald Howarth letter to MT (Seminar on Broadcasting Policy) [TV violence, sex and bad language] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: ITCA briefing note for MT ("Where Stands TV?") [a period of accelerating change] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Networking of ITV Programmes") [review of ITV arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKA Bonn letter to FCO ("Tensions in the Bonn Coalition") ["sharpest exchanges" taking place between CSU and CDU, FDP mainly "watching from the sidelines"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Networking of ITV Programmes") [IBA's commitment to change may have been underestimated] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Interim advisory committee on school teachers' pay and conditions") [membership] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Society: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with Douglas Keay for Woman's Own") [topics Keay plans to raise] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (inner cities) ["it is all being co-ordinated by you... [so] not obvious as to who should be the lead Minister] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 annotated agenda and steering brief for MT ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Broadcasting") [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Ridley PS ("Effects of Domestic Revaluation") [do everything possible to advertise advantages of new system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Barnet Rates") [change in local contribution] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Social Security: Outstanding Commitments") [additional savings still needed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Cook letter to John Wakeham (Social Security) [debate on legislation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Income Related Benefit Rates") [cannot exempt income-related benefits from usual survey process] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Broadcasting") [thanks for briefing] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: BBC paper (Seminar on Broadcasting Policy) [threat to BBC from gap between its income and those of ITV companies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Richard Hooper paper ("The Three T's - Television, Technology & Thatcherism") [impact of changing technologies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 annotated agenda ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Broadcasting Monday 21 September 1987") [guest list] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Inner Cities Report") [MT meeting with author of report; "now consistent with the Government's philosophical framework, but it lacks substance and misses a few crucial areas"; question of who should have lead Ministerial responsibility for the issue] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner Cities Report") [MT meeting with author of report; 'report disappointing' but recommendations could usefully be sharpened] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Norgrove ("Inner Cities") [best if Ken Clarke took charge of presentation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Hurd letter to Tim Janman MP (intimidation on estates) [concerns raised by Hackney constituent] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Monitoring the National Curriculum") [Baker plans for monitoring by HMI "a quite outrageous proposal"; MT - "utterly ridiculous"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (meeting of E(EP)) [papers on Maintained Further Education and GM Schools] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to George Younger ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [liability of service personnel living in Crown property] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("Role of the Treasurer") [proposed duties of the Chief Finance Officer] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Mellerah letter to David Norgrove (Seminar on Broadcasting) [cable technology] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Richard Hooper letter to David Norgrove (Seminar on Broadcasting) [television technology] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Richard Price letter to David Norgrove (Seminar on Broadcasting) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Ponsonby minute for Stephen Sherbourne (meeting with Tebbit) ["I understand the meeting did not go too well"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Norman Tebbit to MT (press speculation on his position) ["such pieces have been commonplace"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Younger (relocation of the Ministry of Defence Quality Assurance Unit) [MT request that MoD officials meet with Teesside Urban Development Corporation following her recent visit to Teesside] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Whitelaw meeting with MT to discuss allocation of responsibilities for the policy between Departments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["one or two quotes which suggest that the tide is beginning to turn"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Wandsworth Rates") [likely impact of council's decisions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: UKMIS New York telegram 750 to FCO (0215Z) ("Soviet Foreign Minister's speech, 23 September") [nuclear disarmament, perestroika, security systems] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke letter to Walker ("Welsh Development Agency: financial limit") [increase in financial limit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Students and the Community Charge") [definition of students] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Moore ("Community Charge Exemptions") ["severely mentally handicapped" in Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Howe PS ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [rate for foreign diplomats] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute for MT ("House of Commons Defence Committee Report on Implementing the Lessons of the Falklands Campaign: Government Response") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Jack Cunningham letter to MT (Social Security) [Community Charge and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Jeremy Isaacs letter to David Norgrove (Channel 4) [change in status] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cities: Nigel Wicks minute (Met Police report on Hackney) ["a terrifying description of urban deprivation"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cities: Hartley Booth and Norman Blackwell minute ("Phoenix and Inner Cities") ["If we can get enough bandwagons rolling, they will create their own energy and momentum"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Metropolitan police report on Hackney) ["one of the objectives of our inner cities policy is to ensure that the benefits of future Dockland-type developments do have knock-on effects. As the Hackney experience demonstrates, that just won't happen: it needs to be made to happen"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 conversation record ("Prime Minister's seminar on broadcasting") [MT, Alan Peacock, Richard Hooper, Charles Jonscher, Michael Grade, David Graham, Jeremy Isaacs, John Whitney; Sir Ian Trethowan, John Birt; Douglas Hurd, David Young, Brian Griffiths, Bernard Ingham, Nigel Wicks, David Norgrove] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Social Security") [child benefit and income-related benefit reductions likely to be most controversial] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("BBC") [MT's speech in Birmingham] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("MISC 128: 29 September 1987") [auctioning of ITV contracts, franchise ownership, C4 changes] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Satellite Broadcast Services: MISC 128(87)6") [regulation of non-DBS satellite services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT handwritten drafts (party conference) [Inner Cities, Foreign Affairs, Education, Socialism - defeat of, Economics] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Bill Davis memo for conference speech ("Some more thoughts") ["They call it the Thatcher revolution. Well, if that's what it is, let's have more of it"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Christine Wall letter to Stephen Sherbourne (MT visit to Berlin) ["Can I be assured that in future, I am included as part of the PM's party. I simply cannot do my job without being so"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting on Monday 28 September 1987") [newspaper group request, Peel bicentenary, nationalised industries lunch, Lord Mayor's ball, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: MT letter to Chief Executive of Business in the Community (Inner cities) ["the ideas which you expressed in the report are very much in tune with my own"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [legislation to abolish domestic rates, introduce community, recast non-domestic rating and grant arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Environment: Norgrove briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Ridley") [inner cities, "I suspect to lobby you about the balance between DTI and DOE"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("House of Commons Defence Committee Report on Implementing the Lessons of the Falklands Campaign: Government Response") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove letter to Ian Trethowan (Seminar on Broadcasting) [maintaining broadcasting standards] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove briefing for MT ("Broadcasting") [ITV restrictive practices] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MT letter to David Waddington (Seminar on Broadcasting) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("ITV System: Networking") [need for a review, independent of the IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC 128: Broadcasting") [a new regulatory structure for broadcasting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove note to MT (ITV franchises) [ownership of multiple franchises] [declassified Feb 2016]

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