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86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: FCO minute to No.10 (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [travel arrangements] [declassified 2014]
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]
86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Budget”) [meeting with Lawson] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Public expenditure priorities for the next Parliament”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [teachers’ perspective] [declassified 2014]
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]
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]
86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Biffen letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill”) [amendment] [declassified 2014]
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]
86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [coverage of new Heseltine allegations] [released 2017]
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]
86 Jan 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Hurd (“Popplewell Inquiry in Safety and Control at Sports Grounds”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Vancouver for Expo '86") [travel arrangements: Concorde] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram 58 to FCO (1307Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Lille, 20 January") [details of final programme] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	France: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit Meeting in Lille 20 January") [attendees, programme] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod/AEW") [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister") [UKA Giffard record of conversation with Shintaro Abe: Abe's forthcoming visit to UK: USSR; Falklands fishing] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr Brittan") [sale of British Leyland - "These discussions need of course now to be seen in the light of the Westland affair..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("MISC 119 Report on Government R&D") [shortcomings of the cross-Department review of R&D; options for addressing the deficiency in industry expenditure on research] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to MT ("Report of MISC 119: Research and Development priorities across Government") ["...the UK seems to be planning for economic decline in science - and technology - based industry" - proposed remedial action; MT keen for advice to be widely circulated but persuaded against it] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Charles Powell notes to MT (Westland) [no interest in prolonging the controversy] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Leon Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Westland: Exchange of Letters with Sir Raymond Lygo") [line drawn over disputed recollections of 8 January 1986 meeting; exchange to be released to the media later that day; copies attached] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Tim Flesher note to MT (Westland: Nicholas Ridley interview for BBC Radio 4, 16 January 1986) [transcript, following question put to MT in Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Westlands: Telephone Call From Mr Van Houwelingen, Netherlands Minister of State for Defence") [Lamont, Houwelingen: European collaboration on helicopters] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Tim Flesher minute to Ingham ("Information Released to the Press") [timing in relation to conveyance of same information to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“Common Agricultural Policy: the 1986 Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Community: First Impressions and Annual Review for 1985”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Rifkind minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [housing, local authorities overspend] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [outcome of the G5, the markets, tin, oil, personal taxation] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay”) [proposal for Hurd to join committee] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers (QPM)”) [MT opposes setting a precedent for publishing Cabinet documents] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT letter to Lady Tilney (thanks for "marvelous letter") ["We shall be in rough water for some time I fear - and just when the economy is doing so well"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT letter to Lady Spencer (thanks for support "at a difficult time") ["People do not expect Conservatives to be quarrelling openly and they have a right to expect Cabinet to be united"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Heseltine walks out of Channel 4 interview] [released 2017]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights for MT (Westland, Channel link, Ulster protest rally) [released 2017]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (“Popplewell Report: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Mr Churchill’s Bill on Obscene Publications”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 19 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Expo '86: Vancouver") [MT will attend briefly] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 briefing ("Administrative Arrangements for the Visit of the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to Lille: Monday 20 January 1986") [Channel Tunnel treaty signature - programme, travel arrangements, attendees, including press party] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister") [USSR; trade relations; international debt; International Tin Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Consultative Council on local government finance: expenditure groups' report") [improvement of existing arrangement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Fisheries") [negotiations with the Japanese over fishing for squid at the Falklands] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (report on South Africa) [possible military coup] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Derek Tonkin farewell letter from Pretoria) [MT "found it a very interesting and well-written account, if rather depressing in its conclusions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Westland: Presentation of the Government's Case to Select Committees") [provision to Select Committee on Defence of documentation pertaining to helicopter procurement] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Charles Powell note to MT (Westland) [constitutional position & role of the Prime Minister] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Leon Brittan letter to John Morris MP (Westland: Official Record of Meeting with the Chief Executive of British Aerospace, 8 January 1986) [request declined for sight of manuscript notes] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Cabinet Office Economic Secretariat minute to Cabinet Secretary PS ("Westland") ["release of documents and the procedure relating to leak enquiries"] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	City: Whitelaw minute for Douglas Hurd (“Roskill Report: Early Debates”) [Parliamentary arrangements] [released 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Brittan letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Action Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [opposes idea] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“Brittan’s chance to plunge knife into Heseltine”] [released 2017]
86 Jan 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“The Channel Link and the RSG debate will today take over from Westland”] [released 2017]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	France: MT letter to UK Ambassador to France (Channel Fixed Link meeting) [thanks to Embassy staff; "it was right to make this into a major occasion and underline the wider significance of the decision to go ahead with a Link"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (Channel Fixed Link meeting) [grateful he made it a ceremonial occasion to underline the project's symbolic importance, glad to talk about Middle East developments] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram 76 to FCO (1727Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Lille, 20 January 1986: Channel Fixed Link") ["very warm reception" for MT in Lille, "great media interest"; account of the visit] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: MT message to Ruud Lubbers (Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam) [thanks for cooperation by Netherlands authorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO PUS letter to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan and Austrian Neutrality") [Austrian Ambassador's concern about comparison drawn by MT in recent TV interview] [released Jul 2018]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Wicks minute for Armstrong (“Long-term Trends and Social Expenditure in the Group of Seven Major Industrial Countries”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with Younger: Nimrod/AEW) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador, Japanese Director-General of European & Oceanic Affairs Bureau) [USSR; trade relations; international debt; International Tin Agreement; Falklands fisheries] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [unlikely to catch on in UK, but leveraged takeovers financed by banks may already be] [released 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	City: Chief Secretary to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [interdepartmental committee on Roskill] [released 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [ACAS; Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [ACAS; government strategy] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [ACAS; Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: FCO letter to No.10 (“Property Services Agency”) [concerns over value for money with contractor] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Channel Tunnel, economy, Westland) [rail link announced, but conflict with unions] [released 2017]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (0135Z) ("Gorbachev Proposals on Arms Control") [initial reactions within the US Administration] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to MT (Nimrod/AEW) [leaks to the press] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger) [Nimrod AEW project] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("'H' Committee on Tuesday") [radioactive waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Chairman/Chief Executive of Land Rover-Leyland Ltd letter to MT (possible sale by BL plc of Land Rover UK Ltd and related businesses) ["My declared interest is in exploring the feasability of a consortium backed management buy-out of Land Rover UK Ltd... deep concerns about certain aspects of the SALTON proposals..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") [revised draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (South Africa) [corrects Mugabe's reading of her previous letter: "[we] accept that you do not allow or encourage ANC bases in Zimbabwe... Nor is there any question of my seeking to threaten Zimbabwe on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Nigerians insisting on meeting with Mandala as condition of joining visit to South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Westland: Appearances Before the Select Committees") [press release announcing Trade & Industry committee inquiry & invite to Brittan to appear before the committee] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Westland) [Heseltine, Tebbit: record of conversation on 20 January 1986, relayed to No.10 by Tebbit's office] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (FCO)	Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1985 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to Biffen (“Illegal Community Budget for 1986: Next Action”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [Inquiry, ACAS] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [government’s options] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [ACAS; government’s options] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (0135Z) (“Gorbachev proposals on arms control”) [“Initial reactions within the administration differ widely”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Michael Spicer letter to Michael Howard (Airports Bill) [proposed amendments: “I am not attracted to your ideas”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: John MacGregor minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“content… with the proposal that departments should not submit claims”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: MT letter to Rupert Murdoch (thanks for flowers) [his recent visit to Chequers] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Brian Griffiths letter to MT (support) [“The country is prepared to follow you, support you and re-elect you”; MT: "It is a fight all the time"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Stephen Sherbourne minute (YC invitation to Heseltine) [urges YCs be told to rescind invitation; MT: “I think it would be risky to do so”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Brittan’s position in danger] [released 2017]
86 Jan 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee on Tuesday”) [the Churchill Bill; radioactive waste] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("RPR/UDF election platform: contents") ["A key document, on which the right-wing government likely to emerge from the elections next March will initially base its policies"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Jopling letter to Howe ("Falklands Islands: Fisheries") [a multilateral fisheries regime in the South Atlantic] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: DTI briefing (1215Z) ("Background Situation") ["Note prepared by Mr M.J. Michell on the instructions of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry" 12.15pm 23/1] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Cabinet Office ("Westland") [Westland Chairman's diary released to media: DTI objects to Westland] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Westland") [release to Defence Select Committee of Westland Chairman's correspondence with MT] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: David Norgrove minute to Nigel Wicks ("Westland") [MT rules out Government publicising Heseltine conversations with UK/French industrial leaders, urging them to buy Westland shares] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“1986 Agricultural Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“European Community: Inter-Governmental Conference”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Department of Trade and Industry minute to Treasury (“Lloyd’s and the Financial Services Bill”) [even if legislation needed, Tebbit opposes its inclusion in Financial Services Bill] [released 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 3rd (Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT speech draft (23 Jan Commons statement) [early draft?] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (support) ["while there is understandable silence on the part of the Embassy, we are enthusiastically cheering for you on the sidelines"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Cuckney says Brittan took neutral position on offers] [released 2017]
86 Jan 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Interest Rates and Your Meeting with Brian Griffiths and Alan Walters”) [Lawson might be persuded to delay 1.5 percent rise] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Havers PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australian Bicentenary: Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [impact of permanently gifting original] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Paris to FCO ("Bilateral Talks on Nuclear Matters") [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Gorbachev Proposals on Arms Control") [detailed assessment] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Internal French politics") ["The [election] campaign is slowly warming up."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Green Paper: Paying for Local Government") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker draft statement to Parliament: "...shows you have been absolutely right to select him and William Waldegrave as the reform team..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Moore letter to Patten ("Water Privatisation: draft White Paper") [revisions to draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (the future of South Africa & the necessary conditions for dialogue) [opening address to Parliament; legislative change; sanctions; suspension of violence as a condition of power-sharing; Angola; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (resignation) [encloses Brittan's letter for release, with MT's reply, at 1800] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Release of Confidential Documents") [CDP doubts the idea, suggests MT seek Cabinet Office and cabinet advice] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Charles Powell minute to Wicks ("Disclosure of the Solicitor-General's Letter") [main questions which arose in Commons yesterday to which MT will need to reply on Monday] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Westland") [Q&A relating to the disclosure of the Solicitor-General's letter] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Westland: inquiry into disclosure of Solicitor General's letter) [background information] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit: Peter Warry minute to Brian Griffiths ("David Owen letter") [Westland affair: thoughts on advisability of replying to Owen in advance of debate in Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1985”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“danger that we may be becoming too complacent about our alleged success in reducing public sector trading settlements”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [defence against separate privatisation of Stansted] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“ASPIRE”) [clearance to support spinal injury research appeal for funds] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Property Services Agency Advisory Board”) [winding up: “There is no doubt that the PSA has benefitted from exposure to private sector expertise…”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Letwin minute to Powell ("Policy Unit Draft 2") [MT speech 27 Jan] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Emergency Debate: 27 January 1986") ["Launch a counter-attack"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Brittan’s future in doubt, many backbenchers want him gone] [released 2017]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (market pressure to increase interest rates) ["I have emphasised to the Treasury how very relieved you would be if there were no increase today"] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1986”) [case for a tight budget, as in 1981] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 25 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT draft speech (25 Jan draft) [extensive MT amendments] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 25 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“Your crisis not over yet”] [released 2017]
86 Jan 25 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 26 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics, Westland) [43 per cent think she should resign, 48 per cent stay] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 26 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Griffiths minute for MT (“Westland Speech: 27 January”) [suggested improvements] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Resettlement of Army Agent") [one of UK's best placed agents has been compromised, resettled in Britain] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Department of Employment letter to No.10 (“Two Year YTS”) [Youth Training Scheme] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Lord Young letter to Edwards (“Two Year YTS”) [launch of Youth Training Scheme marketing campaign] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("BL: LRL and ARG") ["The effect of the heated debate on Westland has been to focus attention on the extent of US ownership of sectors of British industry"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Leyland") [GM bid for Land Rover-Leyland/Ford bid for Austin Rover] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BL privatisation") [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (European School in Luxembourg) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay: Scotland”) [Inquiry, ACAS] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [ACAS deal] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [ACAS deal] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Charles Powell letter to MT (thanks for defending him and Bernard Ingham in speech) [offer to "slip away" if she would prefer "a less notorious Private Secretary"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT speech (final draft) [MT amendments & annotations, including "olive branch"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Charles Powell note to MT (congratulations & thanks) [“Your loyalty and thoughtfulness towards your staff far exceeds anything which I have known in over 20 years in the government service”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“Maggie: I won’t be pushed out”] [released 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Westland, Reagan’s state of the union address, OPEC meeting, rates reform, inner cities] [released 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Lord Hailsham PS letter to No.10 (“Departmental Responsibility for Tribunals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Crown Agents: Pensions Work”) [overseas pensions work to be absorbed by Overseas Development Administration] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General minute for Powell (“Prime Minister’s Speech in the Debate on Westland - Monday 27 January 1986”) [suggested amendments by Solicitor-General] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Wicks (amendments to MT’s draft speech in the debate on Westlands) ["there is clearly a conflict of testimony"] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Ingham minute for Wicks (result of DTI 'gossiping') [MT may be asked whether Ingham was active in getting the letter leaked] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Westland Debate: Leak Inquiries”) [notes for possible supplementaries at PMQs] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to John Moore (“Bilateral on Deregulation”) [Inland Revenue/Customs & Excise proposals] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-1987: Copyright and other Intellectual Property Bill") ['hiving-off' provisions] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [statement to Parliament to launch Green Paper: "We are proposing... the replacement of rates with a flat-rate community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Armstrong minute for Wicks (the Personal Representatives meeting: preparations for Tokyo Summit) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (Select Committees) [Nigel Wicks, Robert Armstrong] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Scottish approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Rifkind (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [regional policy, housing, LA capital] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Baker (“Local Authority Capital Overspend 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, oil prices, unemployment figures] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“having looked at the papers I find Michael Heseltine’s arguments compelling”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Wicks (appreciation for MT’s statement on DTI’s involvement) ["scrupulously fair and accurate"] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for MT (“Westland: Attendance at Select Committees”) [DTI & Defence Committees - handling of requests] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Hurd PS to Wicks (transcript of BBC Today interview with Home Secretary, 28 Jan) [Hurd's remarks "inaccurately presented" in Evening Standard report of interview] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Younger letter to MacGregor (competitive tendering in defence procurement) [case by case approach] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Welsh approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Local Authority capital expenditure control") [draft consultation paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: McMeekin letter to Goodlad (application of Sayvol F in reduction of energy costs and pollution levels) [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Department of Health and Social Security briefing for MT (welfare and protection of children) [declassified 2015]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Department of Health and Social Security briefing for MT (welfare and protection of children) [declassified 2015]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Treasury note to No.10 (“Grades 2 and 3 - Discretionary Pay”) [discussion note] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Douglas Hurd letter to Keith Joseph (“Biased teaching and political indoctrination in schools and colleges”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [main terms of ACAS agreement] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Walker letter to Baker (“Select Committee on Energy: Report on Energy Efficiency Office”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Walker memorandum (“Government Observations on the Eighth Report from the Select Committee on Energy - Session 1984-85”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Ridley memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 4 (School Teachers’ Pay) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to MT (“Property Services Agency”) [“attention should now focus on further measures to improve PSA’s performance”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT letter to Robin Butler (thanks for help) [“we have lived through a nightmare … it will be a relief to get back to normal problems”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Powell minute for MT (“Westland: Defence Select Committee”) [plans to persuade Defence Committee not to persist in calling DTI & No.10 officials] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Powell (invitation to give evidence) [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Westland: Evidence at Select Committees”) [agrees with Hayes that junior DTI officials should not appear; Channon inclined otherwise] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Attorney General's Legal Secretary letter to Cabinet Office (“Westlands: Priority Written Questions for Answer by the Attorney General”) [draft answers] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Chief Whip (“Westland: Select Committees: Attendance of Officials”) [suggested line] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Henry Steel (invitation to Solicitor General to give evidence to the Defence Committee) [Armstrong suggests refusal] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (invitation to give evidence to the Defence Committee) [will appear with Macdonald and O'Shea but not Bowe, Mogg or Mitchell] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Michael Havers letter to MT (renumeration of the legal profession) [negotiations: urges MT to arrange meeting to avert “crisis”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: John MacGregor letter to Lord Hailsham (“Barristers’ and Solicitors’ Remuneration”) [MT sceptical that lawyers are hard pressed for cash] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Crime Prevention Meeting”) [Home Office action plans arising from MT-chaired seminar] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (visit to South Africa) ["grateful to you for raising with the President the importance of seeing the Eminent Persons Group and the need to avoid cross-border raids"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Geoffrey Dickens MP) [possible Minister for Children] [declassified 2015]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Geoffrey Dickens MP) [possible Minister for Children] [declassified 2015]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	City: Home Office letter to Norgrove (H Committee work on Roskill report) [MT agrees no need to complete till end April] [released 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 4th (cabinet membership, Parliamentary Affairs, Economic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Teachers’ Pay Dispute) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Attorney General’s Chambers letter to Nick Ridley PS (“BA Privatisation”) [legal advice in context of ongoing Laker litigation in US] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Paul Channon minute to MT (“Government Emergency Communications: Transfer of Responsibilities”) [from DTI to Home Office] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Select Committee hearing, European consortium’s offer] [released 2017]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to No.10 (“Departmental Responsibility for Tribunals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Defence Committee Press Notice (inquiry into Westland affair: official witnesses and scope)
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Acland letter to Hayes (“Westland: Documents of 4 and 18 October 1985”) [no objection to DTI document release] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clive Whitmore minute for Hayes (“Westland: Documents of 4 and 18 October 1985”) [release of DTI documents] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Lawson (“Treasury Economic Forecast”) [oil at $20 and 15] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd minute to MT (“Lenient Sentences”) [MT preoccupied with “Attorney General’s right to refer an acquittal to the Court of Appeal on a point of law… so that guidance on sentencing in that kind of case could be issued”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Message to President Reagan") [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Griffiths minute for Wicks ("Frigates for the Navy") [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG: annual economic report") [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Privatisation of Water Authorities: statement") [draft statement to Parliament; MT "found it admirably clear"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) [Intergovernmental conference; CAP; internal market; oil prices] [declassified July 2017]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Islands: Fisheries") [a multilateral fisheries regime in the South Atlantic] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MacGregor minute for MT (“Handling of the 1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: MT letter to Bryan Gould MP (Michael Howard’s role in relation to the Financial Services Bill) [has declared his interest; no breach of rules] [released 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: No.10 minute for MT (Michael Howard’s role in relation to the Financial Services Bill) [MT: "Whatever the legalities, I am becoming increasingly unhappy about the politics"] [released 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Treasury briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer (“International Monetary Fund: visit of M. de Larosière”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Budget”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: No.10 briefing for MT (“Budget Issues”) [meeting with Lawson] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Political Indoctrination in Schools”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay: Scotland”) [“first encouraging news”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph letter to Biffen (“The Teachers’ dispute”) [statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Ingham minute for MT ("The Weekend Press") [“I said that the Westlands business had been damaging but that it had not done Labour much good either”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [Westland board advises shareholders not to respond to European consortium’s offer] [released 2017]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Addison minute for MT (Sir Raymond Lygo requests meeting) [MT happy to see him but only "when the future of Westland HAS BEEN decided"] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Murdo MacLean (“Westland: Officials Appearing Before Select Committees”) [summary of their discussion that evening] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Tebbit letter to MT (“Remuneration of the Legal Profession”) [balancing legal profession demand for substantial pay award with risk of public backlash] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“More Money for Lawyers”) [risk of public backlash] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to John MacGregor (“Barristers and Solicitors Remuneration”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Remuneration of the Legal Profession - E(A) (86) 5 and 6”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 1 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: President Reagan’s Plans”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("State Visit by President von Weizsacker: 1-4 July 1986") [proposed address to joint session of parliament] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1615Z) ("Arms Control - Responding to Gorbachev") (NSPG 0127) [Reagan: "the US does NOT give up SDI"] [declassified Dec 2005]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Edward Gardner MP letter to No.10 (crime prevention) [actions agreed at MT-chaired seminar] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Geneva Arms Talks: NAC Briefing, 3 February") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL bids - is foreign ownership bad?") [British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (briefing on Stealth technology) [arrangements to meet Weinberger, Powell & US experts] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Argentine Parliamentarians, 16-22 February") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Presidents Speech to Parliament") ["good but still not good enough"; advice on points to stress in UK response; "I continue to believe that the President's offer on Mandela should be taken seriously"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("South Africa: President Botha's Speech to Parliament") [MT "is concerned that our public line on this speech has been rather wan": proposed line to take if questioned in Parliament] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“Common Agricultural Policy: 1986 Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Robin Nicholson minute for MT (“German Conference on Bioethics”) [declassified 2015]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: FCO minute to No.10 (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [MT decision to visit] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Walker letter to Whitelaw (“Implementation of the European Directive on Environmental Assessments”) [Baker proposals for issuing a consultation paper] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“UK Presidency: Reporting on the London European Council (5-6 December)”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: No. 10 record of conversation (MT, Larosière) [international debt, oil prices] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Channon letter to Walker (“Select Committee on Energy: Report on Energy Efficiency Office”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Younger letter to Walker (“Select Committee on Energy: Report on Energy Efficiency Office”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“Westland will rumble on this week”] [released 2017]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (fallout from Westland) [alleged plots to replace MT as leader] [released 2017]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Wicks minute for Armstrong (four questions put to MT by Sir David Wolfson) [possible answers] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (urging publication of inquiry evidence and report) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Powell (invitation to give evidence before the Defence Committee) [likely to be postponed] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Expo '86: Vancouver") [announcement of MT's attendance] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 115 to FCO (0045Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary General's Initiative") [Soviet proposal 'old wine in new bottles'] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Association of British Insurers letter to No.10 (crime prevention) [follow-up to MT seminar] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Powell minute to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [MT bilateral meetings] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 270 to FCO (2230Z) ("Arms Control: US Response to Gorbachev's Proposals of 15 January") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Call by Mr Nitze on the Prime Minister: 1630 on 5 February") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Opposition Day Debate on BL") [British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister/Environment: Griffiths briefing for MT (bilateral with Kenneth Baker) [Rates Green Paper; RSG 1986/87; Inner Cities; Nuclear Waste; Green Belt; Water Privatisation; Housing Policy] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-MacGregor-Whitelaw-Lawson) [handling of the 1986 public expenditure survey] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland, Westland) [talks over purchase of Austin Rover, Armstrong to give evidence to Defence Select Committe] [released 2017]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (“Westland: Defence Select Committee”) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (“Westland: Prime Minister’s Statements about the disclosure of the Solicitor General’s letter of 6 January and the Enquiry into that disclosure”) [questions & issues] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (Westland inquiry evidence) [provides summaries of two documents] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Armstrong (invitation to give evidence) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Clerk to the Defence Committee ("Select Committee on Defence") [offering to give evidence in place of Mitchell, Mogg, Ingham, Powell and Bowe] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Compromise of an Army Agent") [PIRA investigations will lead them to a very well placed agent] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Sentencing and the Criminal Justice Bill: H Committee, 4 February”) [“problem of lenient sentencing”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Policy Unit minute for Powell ("Arms Control Meeting") [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Nitze) [arms control: Gorbachev's proposals] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute for Cradock ("Message to President Reagan on Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Call by Mr Nitze on the Prime Minister") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO briefing to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Italian Summit: 12 March 1986") ["...it is always important to show the Italians that we take them seriously"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) - BL") [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BL: Austin Rover Group") [consideration of prospective bidders] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister/Environment: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Kenneth Baker) [Rates; Water; Inner Cities] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Fritz Leutwiler) [South Africa's financial problems] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Future of the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“1986 Agricultural Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [developments on the international debt front] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Priorities for the Next Parliament”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Michael Alison minute to MT (letter to Area Whips) [drinks for backbenchers who "feel a bit left out of things"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Robert Armstrong letter to MT (thanks) [devoutly hopes his evidence to the Select Committee “will have helped to take the heat out of the affair”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland) [threats of Tory revolt, management split] [released 2017]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Defence Select Committee transcript of evidence (Armstrong’s testimony) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Courtesy Call on the Prime Minister by the Australian High Commissioner on Friday 7 January 1986") [nuclear tests, constitutional links, bicentenary] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australian Bicentenary: Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [avoid setting precedent which could cause embarrassment] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Orders in Council for Local Government in Northern Ireland") [powers to put Commissioners into local authorities with powers to set rates] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd minute to MT (“Crime Prevention”) [Ministerial Working Group and other initiatives following MT seminar] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (terrorist bombings in Paris) [message of support & solidarity to French government] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Dependence of components suppliers on Austin Rover") [statistics] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, Peter Morrison) [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentine Parliamentarians Visit to London") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Egypt: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Egyptian Prime Minister") [briefing request for visit to UK] [released Jul 2018]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MacGregor minute for MT (“Handling of the 1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [handling of the Economic Cabinet, taxation] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 5th (Northern Ireland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Defence Select Committe investigations, blame laid on Brittan] [released 2017]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Brittan (newspaper reports of his evidence to Defence Committee) [Wicks notes Brittan "very unhappy" with coverage in some papers] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Nigel Wicks record of conversation (Wicks-McNaughton) [Council order to put Commissioners into local authorities with powers to set rates] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“Criminal Justice Bill”) [main features of the White Paper] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Paris to FCO ("Nuclear Arms Control: UK/French Talks: Nitze") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Paris to FCO ("UK/French Talks on Nuclear Arms Control: Gorbachev's Proposals") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Anglo/Soviet Relations: Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Internal French politics") ["The Right need to close ranks and turn their fire on the PS rather than themselves if they are to be sure of a clear-cut [election] victory"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Rifkind (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: John MacGregor PS letter to Hurd PS (“Roskill Report”) [fraud: key issues] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Channon PS letter to No.10 (“Financial Services Bill”) [MT concerns about Michael Howard conflict of interests] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Peter Taylor note to MT (support) ["When the deeds of the unworthy and the ungodly hurt the most/ Remember the love and affection of those who care"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Bristow allegations, British Leyland-Ford decision) [released 2017]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland, Westland) [u-turn over sell-off, new Westland allegations] [released 2017]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: DTI record of conversation (Lansley call to Alan Bristow) [Bristow agreeing that Tebbit could refer to earlier conversation; Bristow unable to ignore Cuckney concert party accusation] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Alan Bristow message for MT (copies her his press statement on Westland) [offer of a knighthood not made with government authority] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 press notice (“Westland: A Statement by the Prime Minister”) [rejects claim that knighthood was offered to Alan Bristow to assist in negotiations] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs briefing for MT (“Value for Money Seminar: Department of the Environment 10-11 AM, 11 February 1986”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (“Consultancy Inspection and Review Services”) [report deadline] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Immigration: Hurd PS letter to Howe PS (“Immigration cases”) [Parliamentary debate on draft guidance for handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: Powell minute to FCO (MT's inteview to Turkish Television: questions) [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: Press Office minute for Powell ("Turkish Television Interview") [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Lenient Sentencing”) [MT queries power to refer a point of law to Court of Appeal following acquittal] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Department of Employment Publicity Campaign”) [MT supports proposal to raise public awareness of opportunities for the unemployed] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Ingham to Armstrong (“Economic Summit - Press Briefing”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKDIS Geneva to FCO ("Chemical Weapons") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("US Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [MT's draft message for President Reagan & NATO meeting on arms control] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("SDI and US Strategy at Geneva: Message to President Reagan") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Message to President Reagan") [draft] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("CFL ceremony at Canterbury: President Mitterrand's current preoccupations") ["...the elections increasingly dominate [his] thinking... But polls still show the RPR/UDF likely to win a clear majority. Terrorism has become an election issue in the last week."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Nick Ridley to Lord Caithness ("Legislation on Marine Pilotage") [compulsory pilotage] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Lord Young letter to Whitelaw ("1986/87 Legislative Programme") ["... [must] take account of the expected impact on business of each proposal requiring further legislation... consistent with our wider target of increasing employment"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (opening address to Parliament) ["I see your speech as both constructive and courageous... The legislative measures which you announced represent concrete steps to implement change"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (South African DFA)	South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (praises his new reform initiative) [declassified ?2005]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe letter to Jopling (“Common Agricultural Policy: the 1986 Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Privatisation of British Airways”) [consideration of postponement due to ongoing Laker litigation] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Channon letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be necessary to persuade the US that what is being proposed will bring benefits to both sides”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Review of BBC External Services”) [MT request to be consulted about Government reaction to Report] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (fallout from Westland) [“press portrays weekend as of hats being thrown into the ring for Tory leadership succession”] [released 2017]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: DTI record of conversation (Sir Brian Hayes, Sir Humphrey Atkins, John Gilbert) ["Discussion of the terms under which information was to be handed over [to] Sir Humphrey & Dr Gilbert"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Wicks, Brittan) [Brittan critical of Armstrong evidence, "a flagrant steer … in a particular direction which he could not accept"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes minute for Armstrong (“Meeting with Sir Humphrey Atkins and Dr. Gilbert”) [disagreement as to whether evidence could be published by Defence Committee without ministerial agreement] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Immigration: Howe minute to Hurd (“Review of entry clearance policy”) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (UN Commission on Human Rights) [efforts to improve the human rights situation "continue to be called in question in the United Nations"] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to John MacGregor ("An International Fund") [relationship of funds to existing resources resources] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 84 to FCO (0815Z) ("Turkish Prime Minister's Visit: The Scene") [Anglo/Turkish relations; internal political & economic situation; foreign politics] [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 89 to FCO (1230Z) ("Turkish Prime Minister's Visit: Pen Picture of Mr Ozal") ["quiet confidence born ... of a deep religious faith"] [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Hartley Booth minute to MT (meeting with Peter Utley) [“The Conservative Party is ‘cutting its own throat’”] [released 2017]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT letter for President Reagan (MT's thoughts on arms control issues) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Younger minute for MT ("Nimrod Airborne Early Warning Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for January 1986") ["...prospects are good provided that the lower oil price and the depreciation of the dollar are sustained."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, Peter Morrison) [bids for British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("New bids for BL") ["Eight new bids have been received for parts of [British Leyland]. At this late stage in the GM negotiations these are more of an embarrassment than a help"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Baker letter to Attorney General ("Thames Water Authority audit: Arthur Anderson & co") [notification of appointment of the audit firm involved in failure of DeLorean Motors Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Procedure Committee Report on Public Bill Procedure") ["(MT) very much agrees with [Biffen]... that the Committee's proposal for a Legislative Business Committee to control time on Government Bills in Committee should be rejected... however, she shares Mr. Jopling's reservations about the Lord Privy Seal's proposals for bringing forward to 50 hours the normal guillotine point in the Standing Committee proceedings. She believes that 50 hours might well look high-handed..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: McMeekin letter to Goodlad (application of Sayvol F in reduction of energy costs and pollution levels) [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Nicholas Elliott (visit to South Africa) [MT acknowledges letter and asks diary secretary to schedule a meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Rifkind letter to Jopling (“Common Agricultural Policy: the 1986 Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Channon letter to Baker (“EC Environmental Assessment Directive”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: No.10 minute to MT (“Financial Services Bill”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 5 (Economic Strategy) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (fallout from Westland) [backbenchers in favour of MT leading party into next election] [released 2017]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Sir Brian Hayes (“Meeting with Sir Humphrey Atkins and Dr. Gilbert”) [agrees what to hand over to them, subject to approval by your Secretary of State] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Terry Heiser, Robin Ibbs) [“value for money in the Department of the Environment”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Lenient Sentencing”) [minimum sentencing for robbery and rape] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Miles Breeden letter to No.10 (seminar on crime prevention) [proposed presentation to Home Office on autocrime] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 357 to FCO (1935Z) ("East-West Relations and Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Nuclear and Space Talks: Council Briefing by Nitze: 12 February") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO (SCG Quint Meeting: response to Gorbachev's proposal) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Nimrod Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: OD Meeting: 12 February") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Argentine Parliamentarians, 16-22 February") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Lord Rothschild letter to No.10 (President Botha open letter to media) [South Africa newspaper clipping] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (invitation to nominate UK participants to the Conference on “Neurosciences and Ethnics”) [declassified 2015]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Rifkind minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilaterals with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure Cabinet, JMB sale, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 6 (Disposal of Radioactive Waste) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [Hurd to announce invitation to tenders for contracts] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (fallout from Westland) [“battling Thatcher back on top form”] [released 2017]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: DTI letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (enclosing extracted DTI documents on Westland affair) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Sir Brian Hayes (release of DTI documents to Defence Select Committee) [approves] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (“Westland: Lord Trefgarne”) [line to take over "mystery shareholders"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Clerk of the Select Committee on Defence (corrections to transcript of his evidence) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Blank Tape Levy") [MT annotation: "I am very much against a levy"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Bob Hawke message to MT (Australian bicentenary) [gift of a sail training ship] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [political downside of additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: MT message to Avital Shcharansky (0545Z) ("Message from the Prime Minister to Mrs Shcharansky") [congratulations on the release of her husband, Anatoly Shcharansky, from Soviet imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("US Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Irish Government reshuffle") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Paying for local government") [request for extension of the consultation period] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Security: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Security classification of the statistical series produced in the Department of Employment") [standardisation] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Addison minute for Wicks ('Bilaterals') [timetable for proposed regular one-on-one meetings with cabinet colleagues] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Political Cooperation: Political Committee: Presidency meeting with Pik Botha") [press statement: "grave concerns about developments in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	South Africa: Crocker telegram to State Department (talks with Pik Botha in Geneva) [declassified 1999]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 6th (British Leyland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Strategy, Radioactive Waste) [pre-budget economic discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, Westland) [shares at record level, Westland vote to accept Sikorsky rescue offer] [released 2017]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (“Football Hooligans: meeting at DoE, 13 February”) [Giles Shaw, Richard Tracey, Ted Croker, Jack Dunnit, Graham Kelley] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 13 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Mexico: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Mexican Press article on alleged investment by the Prime Minister in Mexico”) ["a little nous would have pointed to an on-the-spot rubbishing of the story when it appeared"] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Mark Addison note to MT ("Blank Tapes") [Whitelaw feels very strongly about proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Prime Minister of Turkey") [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Prime Minister of Turkey: 17-20 February") [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1512Z) ("Canada") (NSC 0129) [Canada attempting to restrict imports of US films, the President said he could not blame them] [declassified Oct 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Lenient Sentences”) [amended proposal following opposition in Lords] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 383 to FCO (2359Z) ("Arms Control: US Response to Gorbachev's 15 January Proposals") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Gorbachev's arms control proposals) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: MT letter to Chairman/Chief Executive of Ford (sale of the Austin Rover Group) [courtesy letter to mend bridges after public backlash forces Ford out of the bidding] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Portugal: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("New President") [draft MT messages of congratulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [Whitelaw, Malcolm Fraser: "[Fraser's] hunch was that the Group was likely to recommend further action - short of full-scale sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Private Provision of NHS Facilities”) [declassified 2015]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Michael Spicer (MCC report) [“determining the appropriate regulatory regime for a monopoly… removed from the restraints of the public sector”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Michael Alison minute to MT (drinks with MPs) ["it was thought that the 'ghost' had not yet been laid"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Panorama Interview") [“show the public that you are still fit and well, in charge, and as determined as ever”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Stephen Sherbourne minute (leaders from popular press) [“It is time the Tories got their act together”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Budget speculation) [released 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [hopes for tax cuts fade] [released 2017]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Wicks minute for MT (draft response to Owen letter) [refusing demand for disciplinary action against Powell and Ingham] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: UKE Luxembourg telegram 31 to FCO (1734Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg: EC/Turkey") [Greece opposing an early meeting of the Association Council] [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: FCO record of conversation (Lady Young, Turkish Prime Minister Ozal) [Turkey/EC; Cyprus] [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger, Wörner, Bullard and others) [UK forces in Germany; Westland helicopters; NATO; SDI; chemical weapons; arms control; Spain; environmental impact of training, European Fighter Aircraft; SP70; Nimrod AEW; anti-radar drone] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("Note of a meeting with West Midland MPS to discuss the proposals to return Land-Rover Leyland to the private sector...") [Peter Morrison, Gilroy Bevan MP, Anthony Beaumont-Dark MP, Reginald Eyre MP, Roger King MP, John M Taylor MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish relations") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: press interview with the Taoiseach") ["... the Agreement is no threat to [the Unionists]... In fact, [it is] in their best interests"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Republic of Ireland: political scene") ["When Dr FitzGerald meets [MT] on Wednesday, it will be against a very different domestic political backdrop from... [signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement] last November"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 29th, 30th and 36th - 38th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1984-85") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Dr. Anatoliy Fedoseyev (encouraging small enterprise) [measures taken by Conservative government] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Premier Swan ("Bermuda: sanctions against South Africa") ["we remain firmly opposed to economic and trade boycotts"; MT initially reluctant to oppose Bermudan intentions to legislate] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: The Fraser Institute in Vancouver letter to No.10 (inviting MT to address the Institute during her visit) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“British Presidency of the EC: Organisation of the London European Council”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ dispute in Scotland - proposed Inquiry”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Teachers Pay Dispute: England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay: MISC 66, 19 February”) [options following Unions’ rejection of Government proposals] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [“we shall need to exercise continuing restraint in 1986 and 1987 if we are to hold to our published manpower targets”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“the Government seems unlikely to be making much news”] [released 2017]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (dispute at News Corp plant) [violent crowds in Wapping] [released 2017]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (inquiry into leak of Brittan minutes to Observer and BBC Panorama) [inconclusive, but came from Ministry of Defence; Heseltine had "the strongest motive and probably the best opportunity"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Consultancy, Inspection and Review (CIR) Services in Government Departments”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Barristers’ Pay”) [negotiations] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Mark Addison minute to Whitelaw PS ("Blank Tape Levy") [MT believes proposal will lead to unjustified additional bureaucracy] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Turkish Prime Minister Ozal) [Turkish economy; Iran/Iraq; EC; human rights; Cyprus; British Embassy compound in Ankara] [declassified Dec 2017]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Party Donations Affair: investigations against Kohl") ["...on suspicion of giving false testimony... this is the first time a formal investigation has been brought against a Chancellor of the FRG in office."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Investigation against Kohl") [on suspicion of giving false testimony about Party donations] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Local Government: Stephen Sherbourne minute (Local Government Conference) ["Many of our local councillors will be up in arms because of the RSG settlement"] [released 2017]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R & D priorities") ["...resources devoted to defence... are excessive... buying more defence equipment overseas... lower employment [but long term advantages]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R & D priorities across Government") [E(A) - MISC119 Report: "...disappointing... There is no shortage of government-funded R&D... the question the report needs to address is whether and why we are short of private sector R&D?"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("E(A) - MISC119 Report") [vexed by delay in considering the Report's findings] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report of the Ministerial Group on research and development priorities across Government (MISC 119)") ["...improving the efficiency, competitiveness and innovative capacity of the UK economy..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [Sellafield; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Dr. FitzGerald") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions: concerns about Tom King's 'adversarial' approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Tom King briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") ["...we must ensure he really appreciates just how strong is the unionist reaction to the [Anglo/Irish Agreement]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: FCO/Departments of Energy and the Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February") [additional briefing on the recent accident at Sellafield nuclear plant, for meeting on post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February 1986") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong/Nally record of conversation, for MT meeting with Taoiseach to discuss post-Anglo/Irish Agreement negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme for next Session") ["... such an unexciting programme will make it very difficult to convey the impression of a Government with plenty of steam in it..."] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sierra Leone: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by President Momoh of Sierra Leone") [MT accepts Howe's advice to meet with Momoh] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to No.10 (Mrs Thatcher's television interview) [praises her performance] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: FCO minute (internal): South African Department to Curran ("South Africa: Ability of the Government to Retain Control") ["getting across to blacks in South Africa and to other third world governments... the [long term] implications of sanctions for themselves"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Sellafield: Press comments”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [“Only two of the civil service unions have agreed to MEGAW: we have to decide whether to impose it unilaterally or let it fall”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 66 (86) 1st Meeting: Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [negotiating strategy options] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Michael Alison minute to Chief Whip (drinks with MPs) ["you mentioned to me that you would prefer that your Area Whips should not 'mark the card' for me" to cultivate MPs "feeling left out in the cold"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [MT seen to have hinted that thresholds will rise] [released 2017]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visits Abroad") [attendance by Mr Thatcher] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: King PS minute to Charles Powell ("Northern Ireland: Shooting Incident") [death of PIRA member] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("British Leyland") [MISC 126: GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Morrison PS internal minute to DTI officials (British Leyland) [sale of BL: Morrison to meet with TUC delegation: briefing request] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL") [British Leyland: "The Prime Minister decided this morning to set up a small Ministerial Group to consider handling and tactics in relation to the GM bid... following the decisions at E(A)... to support the GM proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary affairs") [GM bid for British Leyland; nuclear waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10: Press Officer minute to Ingham & Powell ("Dr. FitzGerald's speech to the press gallery: 19 February) [Sellafield; Northern Ireland: security; terrorism; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: MT letter to John Cushnahan (dialogue with Northern Ireland political parties) [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [Anglo/Irish Agreement & the Unionists; Sellafield] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: FCO/Department of Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February") ["...Irish proposal for a European inspection force to monitor Sellafield"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February) [Sellafield; Anglo-Irish Agreement/Intergovernmental Conference; European Convention on the suppression of terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: meeting of Ministers on 20 February") [line to take for MT/Tom King meeting with Unionists regarding Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986") [Policy Unit: "The 1986-87 settlement turned out so badly because so many levers were pulled to help London... it is the rates for 1987-88 on which the General Election is likely to be fought"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised industry board members' terms of appointment") [No.10 Policy Unit: "The three year rolling contract would be tantamount to giving... permament tenure... new dismissal provisions do not represent an adequate trade-off... strongly recommend that the rolling contract principal is not endorsed"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Scotland: Interim Review of Parliamentary Constituencies) ["... an appropriate consequence of changes in local authority boundaries..."] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Eminent Persons Group: report on progress of one week visit: "so far so good"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“French Reaction to CAP Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: Health and Safety Executive letter to No.10 (press notice) [‘Sellafield: HSE Announces Detailed Safety Audit’] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret Fitzgerald) [incidents at Sellafield] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Sellafield, economy) [Garret FitzGerald to raise Irish concerns over plant, pound rallies] [released 2017]
86 Feb 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Defence Committee letter to Department of Trade and Industry (press release of DTI documents) [encloses copy] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 428 to FCO (2300Z) ("Arms Control: US Response to Gorbachev's Proposals") [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Peter Jenkins of The Sunday Times) [arms control] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: No.10 minute to MT ("Honda") [Peter Walker MP concerned about threat to employment in Midlands posed by rumoured opening of plant in Swindon] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (message of sympathy & support) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Germany: MT message to Helmut Kohl (sympathy) [released 2017]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King, Wakeham) [MT meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley to discuss Unionist position post-Anglo/Irish Agreement: lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Hurd PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Report on Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England: Interim Reviews of Parliamentary Constituencies) ["The reviews are primarily intended to realign the parliamentary boundaries with altered local government boundaries"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Spain: MT message to Manuel Fraga ("Spain/NATO: possible Prime Ministerial message to Fraga") [effort to avert conservative Opposition's abstention from referendum, which might lead to "the unfortunate precedent that Spanish withdrawal from NATO would establish"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Village Schools”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Language/Vision") [“your domination of politics and intellectual argument - need to maintain flow of ideas and for "new and more appealing language … the, to you, hateful word 'vision'”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Sellafield) [safety experts to audit plant, argument over who ordered inquiry] [released 2017]

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