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80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 briefing for MT (Rayner unemployment benefit scrutiny) [declassified 2014]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sierra Leone: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by President Stevens of Sierra Leone 5-7 November 1980") [educational links; training; development aid programme; internal situation; relations with other African coutries; trade; defence sales; BBC reporting] [declassified Jul 2016]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("President of the World Bank") [MT endorses nomination of Clausen for President of World Bank] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Corporation Tax: The Reform of Stock Relief") [consultative paper proposed] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Social Security") [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Treasury report ("Economic Prospects: October 1980 Report") [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to FCO ("Conversation with Chancellor Schmidt") [EC steel quotas] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Butler minute to MT ("Community Steel Quotas") [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to FCO ("Message to Chancellor Schmidt") [EC steel quotas] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery, Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 64 (Multilateral Financial Organisations) [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 123 (Computerisation of PAYE: Revised Approach) [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 124 (Computerisation of PAYE) [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Patriation of the Canadian Constitution") [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Canadian Constitution: Meeting on 3 November") [briefing on recent events] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Ibbs minute to Pattison ("Pay and Performance") [supports performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: CRD briefing ("Current Economic Indicators - October 1980") [released 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO letter to No.10 ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the European Commission: Monday 3 November") [brief for MT meeting with Jenkins] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT letter to Chancellor Schmidt (EC agreement on steel) [report on meeting] [released 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Class 3F (condolences on death of teacher and fundraising) ["You ask about my own school days. I remember every class and every teacher vividly and the day we saw a radio (then called wireless) for the first time!"] [released 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Lord John Vaizey (training) ["I share many of your misgivings about our current training efforts"] [released 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Ken Dodd (thanks for evening's entertainment) ["You were wonderful"] [released 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("The Organisation of the Central Departments") [argues for merging of CSD with Treasury] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Bancroft minute to MT ("The Organisation of the Central Departments") [study on merging of CSD with Treasury] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lord Gowrie-Ibbs-Hoskyns-Wolfson-Vereker) ["Firemen's Pay"] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: Vereker note to Lankester ("Firemen's Pay") [index-linking of firemen's pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") [suspension of Civil Service Pay Agreement] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (latest developments in coal pay negotiations) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Industrial Energy Pricing") [extensive MT annotations] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: No.10 letter to Department of Industry ("British Aerospace Flotation") ["The Prime Minister very much hopes that it will be possible to vest on 1 January"] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Namibia: UKE Pretoria to FCO ("Namibia") [Urquhart meets with Pik Botha] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("The Defence Programme 1980-81") [MT: "They live in a different world from ordinary industry"] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("BL: Threatened Strike") [further news on British Leyland pay dispute] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Lankester note to MT ("British Leyland") [funding of BL Corporate Plan] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Whitelaw) [Government policy towards Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Armstrong briefing for MT ("CAP Price Fixing 1981") [meeting with Schmidt, tactics] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("October Money Supply Figures") [£M3 grew 2 percent, ie, 24 per cent per annum] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: Treasury to MOD (“Iran-Iraq Conflict: MOD Presentation”) [declassified 2012]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Sir Y K Pao”) [declassified 2012]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Prior PS (taxation of husband & wife) [Prior keen for draft Green Paper to recognise wider context influencing women’s decision to work] [declassified 2013]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2011]

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