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| 80 Oct 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 58 (Northern Ireland Prisons: Possible Hunger Strike) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jan 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 5 (EEC Budget: Forms of Pressure) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 33 (Review of the UK Response to Pressure for Voluntary Measures Against Iran) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 29 (Aid to Turkey) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 28 (Aid to Turkey) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 25 (Intervention Capability Outside NATO) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 23 (Civil Home Defence) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Feb 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 14 (Moscow Olympics) [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 60 (Argentine Prisoners of War) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 59 (Securing an Argentine Surrender) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 58 (Argentine Territorial Waters) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 54 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 53 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 50 (Broadcasting to the Falklands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 48 (Falkland Islands: Possible Reference to the International Court of Justice or to International Arbitration) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 47 (Rationalisation of Rules of Engagement) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 46 (Rationalisation of Rules of Engagement) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 45 (Non-Combat Aircraft) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 42 (Message from President Reagan: 4 May) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 1 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 41 (Response to an Argentine Declaration of War) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 1 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 40 (Reinforcement: Requisitioning of Ships) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 30 (Argentine Merchant Vessels on the High Seas) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 28 (Draft Protocol on Special Interim Authority) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 26 (Comparison of Draft Proposals) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 24 (Rules of Engagement for Total Exclusion Zone) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 57 (Powers of Direction Over Ports) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 55 (Anglo-Irish Joint Studies) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 50 (Future of the Gibraltar Dockyard) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 44 (The Mexico Summit and Relations with Developing Countries) [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 9 (Original United States Draft Proposals) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 8 (Formal Consequences of a State of War Between the United Kingdom and Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 5 (Rules of Engagement) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 4 (Possible Notification of Exclusion Zone) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 37 (Message from President Reagan) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 36 (The Argentine Aircraft Carrier) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 34 (Message to President Reagan) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 20 (Mr Haig's Negotiations in Buenos Aires and Commentary on the Draft Agreement) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 19 (Exchange of Notes Concerning Communications Between the Falkland Islands the Argentine Mainland (1971)) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 18 (Comparison of the Draft Agreements of 13 and 19 April 1982) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 17 (United Nations Resolutions Invoked by Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 16 (Mr Haig's Negotiations in Buenos Aires) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 15 (Military Decisions: 20 April) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 14 (Special Commission: United States Proposals) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 13 (Draft Rules of Engagement for Operation Paraquet) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 12 (Final Paragraph of Draft Agreed Memorandum) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 11 (Formal Consequence of a State of War Between the United Kingdom and Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 10 (Revised Draft Proposals) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jan 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 5 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 21 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 79 Dec 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 87 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 73 (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 72 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 63 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Mountfield memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 33 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Sep 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 92 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Aug 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 91 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jul 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 75 (Public Sector Pay) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 62 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jun 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 56 (Public Sector Pay: Factual Background) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jun 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 50 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 38 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Dec 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 147 (Information Technology) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 140 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Nov 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 126 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Le Cheminant and Moore note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 108 (Monthly Economic Brief) [declassified 2010] |
| 84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Gregson, Budd and Stoker note circulated to members of the Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 3 (Colliery Closure Procedures) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Gregson, Budd and Stoker note circulated to members of the Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 2 (The Coal Dispute) [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Jul 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Goodall and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 70 (Falkland Islands Service) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Goodall and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 68 (Rules of Engagement) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Franklin, Elliott note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 18 (Community Budget Contingency Planning: Withholding and Obstruction) [declassified 2010] |
| 81 Jul 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Franklin and Elliott note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 40 (EEC Budget: Next Phase of Negotiations) [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 1 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 71 (Dissolution of the Committee) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 21 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 1 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 47 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 46 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 1 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 57 (Future EEC Budget) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Feb 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 11 (Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2010] |
| 85 Jan 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 1 (Local Authority Assistance to the National Union of Mineworkers) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 80 May 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to E Committee - E(80) 45 (Open-Ended Contracts) [declassified 2010] |
| 86 Dec 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 24 (Airborne Early Warning Aircraft) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 23 (The Queen’s Speech on the Opening of the New Session) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Oct 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 21 (School Teachers’ Pay, Duties and Conditions of Service) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Oct 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 19 (Select Committee on Defence: Westland PLC) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 15 (Pay Review Body Reports 1986) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 10 (Land Rover-Leyland) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 24 (The Queen’s Speeches on the Prorogration of Parliament and the Opening of the New Session) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 15 (Pay Review Body Reports 1985) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 30 (The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation of Parliament and the Opening of the New Session) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 25 (Local Government Finance) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 15 (Pay Review Body Reports 1984) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 12 (Education in London) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 4 (Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 28 (A Defence Suppression Weapon for the Royal Air Force) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 27 (Top Salary Review Body Report on Top Salaries) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 22 (A Defence Suppression Weapon for the Royal Air Force) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 18 (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 14 (Review Body Reports) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 37 (The Queen's Speech on the Prorogation of Parliament) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 36 (The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation of Parliament and the Opening of the New Session) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 32 (Public Expenditure in the Longer Term) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 31 (Longer-Term Options) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 26 (Index Linked Pensions) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 24 (The Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 21 (Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 18 (Falkland Islands: Proposed American Protocol) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 17 (The Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 16 (Public Services Pay) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 15 (The Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 13 (Falkland Islands: Emergency Bill: First Revise) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 12 (Falkland Islands: Emergency Bill) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (proposals for changes in membership of E Committee on Economic Strategy: position of David Howell) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (problems with proposed attendance of Alan Walters at meetings of E(DL)) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (Mount's request to attend MISC 79 and H) [Armstrong raises possible objections] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Questions of Procedure for Ministers") [request by Michael English MP for information on rules for guidance of Ministers] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Committee") [membership and terms of reference] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("MISC 7 - Membership") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Government Changes: Cabinet Committees") [membership of Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Government Changes: Cabinet Committees") [membership of Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Changes in Cabinet Committees") [membership of MISC 14 and MISC 56] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Cabinet Committees") [proposals for changes in composition of Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (statistics on meetings of Cabinet and Cabinet sub-committees: 1981 versus 1981) [number of meetings falls less rapidly: "I am afraid that Ministers are winning"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (statistics on meetings of Cabinet and Cabinet sub-committees: 1980 versus 1978) [MT 'pleased' with fall in number of meetings] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (membership of group on public expenditure: Chief Whip does not want to be a member) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (membership of group on public expenditure) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (formation of Falklands sub-committee of OD committee) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("The Ministerial Sub-Committee on Public Service Pay (E(PSP))") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("The Ministerial Sub-Committee on Industrial Relations in the Civil Service") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("Ministerial Changes: Cabinet Committees") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("Machinery for Handling Current Industrial Disputes") [terms of reference and membership of Ministerial Group on current industrial disputes] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: The Future") [terms of reference and membership of Sub-Committee on the future of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Jul 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 19 (Top Salaries Review Body: Report No 22) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Nov 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong memo circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 39 (Cable Policy) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong and Wenban-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 34 (Iran) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong and Wade-Gery note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 53 (UK Interests in South Africa) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 May 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 42 (Basing of US Cruise Missiles in the UK) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Feb 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Angus Maude letter to Whitelaw (“Ministerial radio and television appearances”) [guidelines] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 8 (United States Economic Pressure Against Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 40 (Argentina: Economic Impact of the Falklands Crisis) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 36 (Response to an Argentine Declaration of War and Related Action) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 33 (Emergency Powers (Falkland Islands) Bill) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 31 (Evacuation of the Falkland Islands: Contingency Reception Arrangements) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 29 (Falkland Islands: Assistance for Islanders Wishing to Leave) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 27 (Evacuation of the Falkland Islands: Financial Assistance) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 26 (Cultural Relations with Argentina (Including Sporting Contacts)) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 22 (British Community in Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 21 (Argentina: Economic Vulnerability) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 20 (Emergency Powers (Falkland Islands) Bill) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 18 (Control of the Export of Strategic Goods to Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 17 (Formal Consequences of a State of War between the United Kingdom and Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 16 (Trading With The Enemy Act 1939) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 15 (Formal Consequences of a State of War between the United Kingdom and Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 14 (Hydrocarbon Potential Around the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 13 (Argentina: Anti-British Retaliation) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 12 (International Reaction to the Argentina Invasion of the Falklands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 11 (Effect of Trade Sanctions Against Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 10 (Financial Restriction on Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander and Middleton note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 7 (2nd Revise) (Directory of Departmental Contacts) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander and Middleton note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 6 (Programme of Work) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Alexander and Middleton note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 5 (Falkland Islands: Departmental Contact Arrangements) [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Dec 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary note circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 59 (Agriculture) [declassified 2009] |
| 84 May 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-elections: Tim Flesher minute to MT (“Local Elections/By-Election Results”) [unusual for governments to be ahead between elections] [released 2014] |
| 80 Jun 21 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-Elections: MT message to Anna McCurley, Conservative candidate for Glasgow Central by-election (Government policy on Scotland) [released 2011] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-elections: MT letter to Robert Hughes (Bermondsey By-Election) [good luck] [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-elections: MT letter to Michael Fallon (Darlington By-Election) [Conservative economic achievements] [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-elections: MT letter to David Maclean (good luck in Penrith and the Border by-election) [released 2013] |
| 84 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-election: Sherbourne note for MT (“Southgate By-Election”) [“the Liberals are … going to run hard that the Goverment are going to tax the pension lump sum and withdraw tax relief for pension contributions”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-election: MT letter to Michael Portillo (support in Enfield Southgate) [Tony Berry “will be sorely missed”, Portillo has fought “excellent campaign”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Dec 9 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-election: Michael Portillo letter to MT (thanks for message of support in Southgate by-election) [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-election: Conservative Central Office press release (“Enfield Southgate By-Election”) [Michael Portillo biography] [released 2014] |
| 84 Dec 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | By-election: ?Flesher note (“Why Southgate Is a Reasonable Result For The Government”) [“governing parties have been losing by-elections for years”] [released 2014] |
| 80 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Business: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Young Contractors Group) [EC tendering processes, local authority highway work, private sector financing of infrastructure work, open cast mining] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (thoughts on the Budget in relation to Scotland) [need for special industrial assistance for areas suffering particular difficulties] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Wiggins minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot responses from HMT ministers and advisors] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Wicks minute to Unwin ("Financial Implications of the NCB Decision for the Budget") [costs of coal settlement] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Whitmore minute to MT ("The Budget and the CBI") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Wass minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Conversation with the Governor") [Wass phone discussion with Governor on monetary policy & bank levy] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Wass minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Issues and the Medium Term Prospect") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [necessity of a tough budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [danger of Treasury 'underkill'] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Budget: Walters notes ("Cabinet on Budget 1982") [views of Ministers on the Budget] [released 2013] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to Scholar ("National Insurance Contributions") [clarification of position on Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposal] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to No.10 ("Share Incentive Schemes") [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Jan 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1985”) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT (thoughts on the Budget) [PSBR, consumer credit tax, medium term tax-benefits strategy] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Price of Oil and the Budget") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("NIC and NIS - The Chancellor's Proposals of 12 November") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Kenneth Fleet Article 21 February 1982, Sunday Express") [international tax avoidance; concerns in the City of London] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Economic Policy") [thoughts on 1984 Budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Budget") [PSBR and tax reductions, national insurance and income tax thresholds, political considerations] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Budget") [oil price revisions, National Insurance surcharge reduction, political considerations] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to Chancellor (lunch at Union Discount) [directors think a "really satisfactory" PSBR consistent with falling rates would be "about £7b"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters letter to Sir Douglas Wass (disappointment at budget measures) [budget proposals "too little and of the wrong kind"; maximum 1 per cent MLR cut] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“North Sea Fiscal Regime: 1985 Budget”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“FSBR”) [Financial Statement and Budget Report] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Unwin minute to Wass ("The Budget & Deflation") [urgent request from No.10 for material rebutting deflation charge] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Press Reactions to the British Budget") [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull note to MT (passage on sale of residual shareholdings in Budget Speech) [highlights concerns of Tebbit and Walker] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (prospects for the 1984 Budget) [HMT's account of MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting on Budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (impact of company tax package on Nissan) [MT: need to mitigate effects of tax package on Nissan, "otherwise we shall be accused of lack of good faith"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (comments on draft Budget Speech) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (Chancellor of the Exchequer's papers on business taxes and excise duties) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("The Budget") ["my reaction is that it is an economist's budget...should appeal to serious commentators...[creates] a host of losers, as well as gainers"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Taxation of Gilt Edged Securities of Building Societies") ["You might have to confirm...that this measure will not have serious effects on the flow of mortgage finance"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Talks with the Chancellor") [briefing for MT meeting with Chancellor: 1984 Budget, tax strategy, privatisation, competition policy, Treasury Ministers and Lloyds] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Residual Shareholders") [Chancellor modifies Budget proposals on sale of residual shareholdings] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Lord MacAlpine") [MacAlpine wishes to organise function with members of the construction industry; possible adverse reaction to Budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Bilateral With the Chancellor") [brief for Budget meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("1984 Budget") [provisional Budget date and timetable] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jan 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Treasury ministers & officials) [fiscal options for aid to business sector] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 (Bank of England foreign exchange intervention before the budget) [“let the rate take the strain”] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("The Budget") [summary of final decisions] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("Indirect Tax Package") [twice revalorisation basis - tabulated] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("Distributional Implications of the Budget") [tabulated] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 May 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute on budget calculations (“ Problems ... Solutions”) [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute for No.10 (budget deflationary?) [material for speech rebutting charge] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("The Budget") [competing Treasury and No.10 versions] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Jan 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (“Budget Preparations: Private Office Guidelines”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Policy Coordinating Committee meeting - PCC(81) 3rd) [fiscal options for aid to business sector] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (ministerial meeting) ["Monetary Target & Monetary Control"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with TUC Economic Committee) ["Budget Representation"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers) ["Road Fuel Duty & Energy Prices"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers & officials) [decisions to freeze income tax & CTT thresholds, reducing PSBR by further £1b] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting on DERV concession) [modes of recouping 10p DERV cut] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury letter to No.10 (arrangements for briefing MPs on the budget) [response to request from MT] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Aug 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury internal minute to Chancellor of the Exchquer (“Profit Sharing, Co-operatives, Two-tier Wages and Jobs”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury internal minute (“‘Alternative Budgets’ 1985”) [summary of Shadow Chancellor press statement] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury internal minute (“‘Alternative Budgets’ 1985”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Apr 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury economic briefing (“Comparison of Short-Term Forecasts”) [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Dec 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Tolkien minute to Biffen, Lawson and others ("1981 Budget") [Chancellor of the Exchequer wants a "preliminary indication of your thinking on what should be the thrust and character of the 1981 Budget"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Tebbit minute to MT (proposed increase in National Insurance Contribution) [Tebbit accepts Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposal] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Tebbit minute to MT ("Budget: Nissan") [MT: "If Chancellor does not agree [with Tebbit] we must have an urgent meeting. I agree with DTI"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (changes to corporation tax and capital allowances and effect on the Nissan project) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Residual Shareholdings") [concerns about effect of Budget announcements on future privatisations: "I strongly urge that you make no reference to residual shareholdings in your Budget Speech"] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Stutely minute to Battishill and others ("March 1981 Budget: Journalists' Expectations") [briefing for meeting] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Sir Robin Ibbs minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") [urges consideration of exchange rate target to reduce level of sterling] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 May 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (budget) [“industrial priorities as I see them”] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Jan 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") [urges £1b "industrial package" & direct action to reduce sterling 5-10 per cent] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Scholar minute to MT ("Papers on NIC and NIS") [MT's concern about wide circulation of papers on Budget issues] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Ryrie minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [exchange rate should be an influence whatever the public stance] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Mar 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Rees PS letter to No.10 (“Budget: Public Expenditure”) [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Rees minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Redwood minute to MT (PSBR, MTFS and taxation) [budget comments] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Redwood minute to MT (excise duties and business taxes) [Chancellor's proposals on excise duties could be seen as "favouring the rich at the expense of the rest"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Redwood minute to MT (early reaction to leaks of Budget proposals) ["Early reaction has centered on condemning the widening of the VAT base"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Long Term Tax Strategy: Capital Taxes") [urges "radical change" to capital taxes] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Budget: Tax Reform") ["It is right to shift the balance to taxing spending rather than earning...The direction is exciting. The only question is one of speed"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Budget Stance") [urges "bold" action on public spending and taxation in 1984 Budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Pickering minute to Battishill ("Budget Summary") [declassified 2011] |
| 79 May 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Treasury Ministers & Officials meeting on public spending) [Treasury approach “not nearly tough enough”] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting) [Budget, etc] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Adam Ridley meeting) [Budget] [declassified 2009] |
| 82 Feb 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-CBI) ["CBI Budget Representations"] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 May 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-CBI) [Budget] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Nov 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Fowler-Brittan) ["Social Security Expenditure and National Insurance contributions"] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 May 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Chief Secretary) [budget plans] [declassified 2009] |
| 82 Mar 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [consequences of BNOC's oil price reduction] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [1984-5 PSBR; agreement to drop proposal to impose VAT on newspapers] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Composite Rate for Banks"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Building Socities: Taxation of Profits on Gilts"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Budget proposals"] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 May 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [budget prospects] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Apr 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [late payment of VAT] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Budget proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Inland Revenue and the Keith Report”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“SDP Proposals for Tax Reform”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Inland Revenue Practices”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Aug 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Late Payment of VAT”) [“securing public acceptance”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Apr 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Late Payment of VAT”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Draft Green Paper on Personal Income Tax”) [MT disapproves] [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 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Budget”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute for MT (briefing for meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Lankester thinks £10 PSBR maximum consistent with falling interest rates] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute for MT (briefing for meeting with Chancellor) [budget strategy "more or less agreed"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute for MT ("Burden of Personal Taxation") [figures "very unwelcome too"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor-Governor meeting) [decision not to cut MLR before budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor meeting) [MT unhappy at announcement of DERV recoupment on eve of Warrington by-election] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor meeting) [3p on cigarettes to recoup DERV concession] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (PM, Chancellor, Governor's meeting) [decision not to cut MLR immediately] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Howe thinks PSBR below £11b not "politically possible"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Budget discussion - no decisions] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (MT lunch with Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [credit cards, windfall tax, etc] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor, Governor & Wass) [decision to reduce MLR by 2 per cent on budget day] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [indirect tax package] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe reports decision to freeze thresholds & reduce PSBR below £11b] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe now wants to raise basic rate in order to increase allowances; MT agrees] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor & Wass) [MT 'dismayed' at £11.25b PSBR, but accepted Howe rejection of increased basic rate] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 letter to HMT (outcome of Budget discussions between MT and Chancellor of the Exchequer) [monetary policy, fiscal stance, duties, National Insurance surcharge, personal taxes, energy prices, mortgage interest relief ceiling] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("Residual Shareholdings") [MT comments on Chancellor's modification of Budget proposals on sale of residual shareholdings] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Mar 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [MT's comments on Chancellor's minute of 26 February] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("Nissan") [MT "feels there is a serious problem to be addressed" in relation to effect of company tax package on Nissan] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Mar 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("International Tax Avoidance: Sunday Express Article, 21 February") [MT "very worried indeed about these proposals" and the "uncertainty and suspicion" they have caused in the City] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("Budget Papers") [MT's concerns about Budget security] [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Jan 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 briefing for MT (“Budget Issues”) [meeting with Lawson] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 briefing for MT (bilateral with the Chancellor on budget and taxation issues) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [handling of Green Paper on long-term public expenditure] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: MT letter to Michael Ivens (reply to Ivens' letter) ["It is now for everyone to grasp the new opportunities which the Budget provides, so that we can achieve a real turn-around in our economic fortunes"] [released 2010] |
| 82 Mar 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: MT comments on Fifth Draft of the Budget Speech ("I have one overwhelming impression of this speech - it is so detailed that the general shape and purpose of the overall budget is lost") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Monck minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Meeting with the Governor on Monday 23 February") [briefing for meeting] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Monck minute for Middleton ("MLR Reduction") [November cut not well received by gilt market] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Monck minute for Chancellor ("Meeting with the Governor on Thursday 22 January") [16 Jan meeting agreed fiscal tightening in the budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor (interest rates & the exchange rate) [difficulty of bringing exchange rate into the reckoning] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [opposes cut before budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") ["very risky" to cut before budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Michael Heseltine letters to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [supports Keith Joseph's proposals] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Jan 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lord Young PS minute to Brittan PS (“1986 Budget”) [employment issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson PS minute to PPS ("Budget Summary") [Lawson's comments on Budget summary] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson PS minute to Monck ("National Savings and the Budget") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson PS minute to Griffiths and others ("Budget Correspondence: Standard Complaints") [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson minute to MT ("Medium Term Financial Strategy") [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson minute to MT ("Budget: Tax Reform") [extending VAT, savings and investment] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Interest Rates") ["any change in interest rates should be made in the Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [strongly opposes cut before budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [response to Wass working group] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (need to uprate supplementary benefit heating additions) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lankester note to MT ("Budget Arithmetic!") [declassified 2012] |
| 79 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lankester minute to MT (Announcement of the Budget Date) [MT: “as soon as possible”] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Jun 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lankester briefing for MT (recouping DERV concession) [meeting with Chancellor] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Jan 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Kemp minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Cabinet 28 January - Economic Strategy - Brief") [brief for Chancellor of the Exchequer's Cabinet presentation] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Apr 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: John Moore PS letter to No.10 (“ICI Case”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: John Moore PS letter No.10 (“ICI Case”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Jim Prior letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") ["I am glad to add my voice to Keith's"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (private health insurance) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1982 Budget") [loan guarantee and business start-up schemes] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Inland Revenue letter to HMT ("International Tax Avoidance: Sunday Express Article 21 February 1982") [MT: "Chancellor. I am very worried about these proposals..."] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Inland Revenue letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Keith Report implementation”) [proposals affecting Inland Revenue] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Ingham minute to MT ("VAT on Newspapers") [urges MT to drop proposed VAT extension from Budget: "I am profoundly concerned lest you set actual or potential supporters against you"] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Ingham minute to MT ("Budget Presentation") ["the Chancellor needs...to stamp his dominance on the occasion at the very outset or very early on"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: Ingham minute ("Chancellor of the Duchy's Lobby") [Pym "rather deftly" pressuring for pre-budget economic cabinet] [released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Ibbs minute to MT ("Economic Strategy (C(82)1)") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper: tax cuts] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 May 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Hunt briefing for MT meeting with Chancellor (“The Budget”) [Treasury “in danger of getting too boxed in”] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Sep 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Hoskyns minute to MT (summary of Niehans Report) [roots of sterling appreciation in overtight monetary policy] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Macro-Economic Group) ["Budget Developments"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Rees-Cockfield-Middleton-Battishill-Cropper-Dalton-Isaac) [stock relief scheme] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lawson-Governor of the Bank of England-officials) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) [stock relief scheme] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Jenkin-officials) [1981 Budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Fowler) ["1981 Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England-Wass) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 26 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Conservative backbenchers) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Rees-officials) ["North Sea Fiscal Regime"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-officials-Alan Walters) ["Budget Strategy"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) [indirect taxation] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) ["The Fiscal Stance"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) ["Direct Personal Taxation"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-officials) ["Taxation of the Banks"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) ["Capital Tax Changes for the 1981 Budget"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) ["Benefits in Kind"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT letter to No.10 (market reactions to the Budget) ["The overall tone has been very positive"] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT letter to No.10 (draft Budget Speech with MT annotations) [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Share Incentives Schemes") [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Consumer Credit Duty") [Chancellor drops proposed consumer credit duty] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Mar 6 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Budget Speech: Final Draft") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Budget Papers") [avoiding a leak of the 1982 Budget plans] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: HMT brief on 1982 Budget ("Budget Key Points") [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: HMT brief ("Budget Snapshot 15 March 1983") [details of Budget] [released 2013] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: HMT Background Economic Briefing ("Ministerial Statements") [extracts from speeches and interviews following the Budget] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (measures to boost the construction industry) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1982 Budget") [Heseltine supports Jenkin's proposals on loan guarantee and business start-up schemes] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [freeze personal allowances so as to ease monetary policy] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Heseltine letter to Brittan ("National Insurance Surcharge") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Heseltine letter to Brittan ("National Insurance Surcharge and Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: George RP letter to Wolfson (Inland Revenue draft legislation on international tax avoidance) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Tax Relief on NI Contributions Paid by the Self-Employed") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Supplementary Benefit Heating Additions") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1982 Budget") [National Insurance surcharge, tobacco and alcohol, private hospital development, help for the most vulnerable] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 25 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Fowler letter to Brittan ("Reduction in NI Surcharge: Local Government Implications") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Fowler letter to Brittan ("Reduction in National Insurance Surcharge: Local Government Implications") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Folger minute to Unwin ("Budget: Letter to No 10") [summary of Budget decisions for MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Feb 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Extract from Biffen Lobby Briefing (Biffen comments on Budget Cabinet: "no lively debate, just unctuous self-satisfaction") [Turnbull: "The Chancellor is angry"] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Mar 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Edwards letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (industry in Wales) [need for regional aid] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: David Howell minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [criticises Treasury budget plans] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Friday morning 'think meeting' outcome) [monetary policy, industrial policy, taxation, economic situation] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Jun 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: Cromer letter to MT (praise for Budget) [released 2010] |
| 80 Dec 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Jun 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Late Payment of VAT and Other Taxes”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1986 Budget”) [the timing] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1986 Budget Day”) [timing of announcement] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer notes for Conservative Finance Committee ("Chancellor's Speaking Note: Finance Committee") [the Budget] [released 2013] |
| 79 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“VAT on Petrol”) [preventing deduction for business use] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“The Budget: effect on Civil Service manpower”) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (tax relief for mortgage interest: introduction of new scheme) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 May 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (RPI impact of budget plans) [case for “immediate & ambitious” switch to indirect taxation] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 May 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (recouping DERV concession) [gambling, tobacco duties] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (Rate Support Grant) [favours revealing in budget speech] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (proposed increase in National Insurance Contribution) [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (proposal on 1984-85 PSBR) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (prescription charges) [second thoughts] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (latest National Income forecast) [“we now expect a rather smaller impact on the RPI”] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (final outline of budget) [main proposals “more or less settled”] [declassified 2009] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (changes to excise duties in 1984 Budget) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 May 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (budget plans) [“quite severely contractionary” proposals] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (advancing payment of PRT) [not helpful] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("VAT on Imports") [strongly opposes] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget") [update on progress] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget - Fiscal Proposals") [update] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget") [outline of budget decisions to date] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget") ["to re-establish credibility in our monetary & public expenditure objectives ... overshadows all"] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget - The Reduction in NIS and the Public Sector") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Fringe Benefits") [taxing car benefits] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Fringe Benefits") [MT worries about season tickets] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind: Free Petrol") [proposal; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [method; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Cars and Petrol") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Season Tickets" [provided by employers]) [strongly defends proposed tax] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Reforming Business Taxes") [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure & the Budget") [energy related overruns] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [broad lines of budget changes] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [Budget proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nissan") [mitigating effects of capital allowance changes on Nissan] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("National Insurance Contributions") [proposed increase to NI Contribution] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("National Insurance Contribution") [proposed increases] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Interest Relief Ceiling") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [seeks agreement to announce in budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Oct 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Date of the 1982 Budget") [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Oct 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Corporation Tax: The Reform of Stock Relief") [consultative paper proposed] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Company Taxation: Stock Relief") [detailed reform proposals] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") ["the major attack this year should be on CTT"] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Jan 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabinet: 28 January") [MT: "I am very worried about this paper. I believe the way it is phrased will arouse maximum opposition and it will be difficult to get Cabinet's wholehearted support"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabinet: 28 January") [Cabinet paper on Budget and economic strategy] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Bank Tax & DERV Duty Concessions") [minor concession to smaller banks; firming up on DERV] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Dec 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Approach to the Budget") [preparation for the Budget; MT concerned about potential leaks] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Additional Revenue from the Banks") [no alternative now to a tax on windfall profits] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1981 Budget Arrangements") [10 March date] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1981 Budget & Public Expenditure White Paper") [timetable] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Sep 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (“FSBR”) [Financial Statement and Budget Report] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Thorneycroft (thanks for expression of views on the economic situation) [lead up to the Budget] [released 2012] |
| 85 Mar 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Taxation of Fringe Benefits - Cars and Petrol”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("The Budget") [update] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (tax and private medical insurance, capital allowances for hospital buildings) [no tax relief for private medical insurance] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft cabinet paper ("1981 Public Expenditure Survey") [move to cash planning] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Mar 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer documents on Budget leak ("Suspected Leak") [line to take] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer APS letter to No.10 (“Press Advertisment: Keith Package”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor minute for Lawson ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [Wass group a "post-mortem on a patient who ought to be dead but isn't!"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget: Letters from Public") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Some Outside Views") [views of Griffiths, Pepper, Rose, Budd and Samuel Brittan on budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Brittan letter to Heseltine ("The National Insurance Surcharge and the Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Dec 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1986 Budget”) [proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Mar 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: BBC transcript (Chancellor of the Exchequer Budget broadcast) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Battishill minute to Taylor (conversation with Lankester: follow-up to MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting) [ITV levy, VAT on advertising] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bank of England) | Budget: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England-John Wiggins) [bank levy] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (leak of Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper on economic strategy) [Economist article] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("National Insurance Contributions") [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(84) 5)") [public spending and borrowing, Medium Term Financial Strategy] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(82) 1)") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minutes to MT (Budget) [danger of underestimating PSBR; "Budget & Monetary Policy"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT (Budget) [urges tougher than expected PSBR to ease funding, interest rates & exchange rate] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [must auction them since appropriate price unknown] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Budget: Alan Walters diary (MT-Howe-Wass budget meeting) [MT telling Howe get down PSBR or "you are for the chop"] [released 2012] |
| 80 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget, etc: Carrington letter to MT (complains at Ingham briefing) [have avoided indicating differences to press on "budget or anything else"] [released 2012] |
| 83 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brunei: MT letter to Sultan Hassanal of Brunei (congratulations on assumption of full sovereignty and independence for Brunei) [released 2013] |
| 82 Dec 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw PS letter to Jenkin PS (“White Paper on Cable systems”) [notification to Departments for their interests] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw PS letter to Cabinet Office (“Cable policy”) [draft paper for Cabinet and Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw PS letter to Baker PS (“Commons debate on Cable systems: 2 December”) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT (“White Paper on ‘The development of Cable systems and services’”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT (Joseph's study of the effect of children's television on school children) [Whitelaw supports Joseph's proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT (impact of children's television on school children) [Joseph's proposed new study] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Report of the Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jan 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [Whitelaw will remain open to possibility of making changes to levy by amending Broadcasting Bill] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("ITV Levy") [Whitelaw and Chancellor agree not to introduce new levy arrangements this session] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Inquiry into Broadcasting Policy Aspects of Development of Cable Systems") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 7 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [urges an 'urgent but measured inquiry'] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [Whitelaw speaks with BBC Chairman Michael Swann] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I believe that we now have to seek the best compromise we can get to avoid serious embarrassment in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("B.B.C. Charter and Licence and Agreement") [declassified 2011] |
| 83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to Prior (“White Paper on the development of Cable systems and services”) [regulation] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT (ITV levy) [Whitelaw's response to Chancellor and MT's concerns on levy] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT ("Tenth Report of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries") [response to the report on Independent Broadcasting Authority] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Apr 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to Howe (“BBC DBS Service”) [satellite and cable policy] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Sep 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Welsh Office press release ("Text of a letter from the Home Secretary to the Rt Hon Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos") [HMG accepts case for Welsh television channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Welsh Office letter to No.10 (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [Edwards meets with Evans] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(81) 28)") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Feb 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: UKE Paris letter to Andy Wood ("Requests from the French Media for Interviews with the Prime Minister") [released 2011] |
| 83 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tom King minute to MT (“Cable television”) [‘pay-per-view’ risk to sport as a social cohesive] [declassified 2013] |
| 78 Aug 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Thorneycroft meeting with BBC (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [sees problems] [released 2003] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP reassessment of cable”) [“A major factor for cable investors is the very large capital investment required in the early days before revenues are received”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [“Predictably… drawn a very negative response from British Telecom”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Apr 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [comments on report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Cable Industry: Consortium Relief”) [“increasingly concerned about the ability of the ‘independent’ cable operators to raise the finance necessary”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Prospects for the Cable Industry”) [“this new high risk industry must be privately financed and market led”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [reluctant to abandon DTI policy] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to MT (BBC External Service cuts) [cuts reduced by one third] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“ITAP report: Cable Systems: A re-assessment”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable”) [need to counter “flagging interest”] [declassified 2014] |
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