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81 Feb 6 Fr	Chronology	Major	[Chronology]	Anglo-Dutch summit at The Hague
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT to Stephen Hastings (thanks for writing) [“I hope you realise how much I value your loyalty and support”] [released 2017]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("De Lorean") [MT unhappily agrees to Government providing security for further borrowing by DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Chalker PS letter to Lord Soames PS ("Contingency planning: use of volunteers") ["scope for bringing in retired management personnel"] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (President of the World Bank: visit to UK) [MT agrees to meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UK oil policy: refinery and disposal strategy") [call for interdepartmental review of North Sea pricing policy & opposition to creation of additonal reserve producition capacity: both concerns being in relation to PSBR] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Pym letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Cost of Parliament") [proposed strategy for seeking to reduce administrative costs] [released Dec 2014]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	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]
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]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: No.10 minute (MT lunch with Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [credit cards, windfall tax, etc] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	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 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Policy & the Budget"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) (“Caribbean Basin & Poland”) (NSC 0001) [preliminary discussion] [declassified 2007]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Carrington and Nott memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 6 (Belize: Defence Arrangements Post Independence) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Northern Ireland: MT letter to Councillor Mrs Hazel Bradford (PIRA murder of Sir Norman and James Stronge) ["I share your distress and revulsion"] [released 2012]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Stephens note to MT (Lords Brookeborough and Moyola request meeting with MT) [Atkins "not entirely happy" about the meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Rates") [rate settlements] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 letter to Department of Environment ("Local Government Finance") [MT "takes a very close interest" in Heseltine's review of local government finance] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("British Steel Corporation: Corporate Plan") [comments on Joseph's draft statement on BSC Corporate Plan] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: Joseph minute to MT ("British Steel Corporation: Corporate Plan") [MT comments on draft statement: "This statement as drafted will bring maximum harm to the Govt."] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [restricted session: deployment of nuclear weapons systems, EC Budget, agricultural prices, Common Fisheries policy, Afghanistan, cost of European Institutions] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [plenary session: EC Budget, agricultural prices, North-South relations, aid, Japan, relations with the US, South Africa, Middle East, oil] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland") ["the slide to anarchy in Poland is reaching such a point that the Soviet Union may find it impossible not to intervene"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	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 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	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]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to 22 SAS: Training Facilities") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Brittan minute to MT ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [draft White Paper] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Taxation: Baker minute to MT ("Future of ICL") [computerisation of PAYE] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Belize: UKMIS New York telegram 105 to FCO (0202Z) ("Belize/Guatemala: New York Talks") [account of talks with Guatemalan side] [declassified 2013]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: President Giscard message to MT (Joint Franco-German statement on East-West relations) [in French] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Heseltine minute to MT ("PSA") [repayment of costs by Departments to the Property Services Agency] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Domestic Markets monthly report (monthly report on conditions in the money and gilt markets) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Mrs Thatcher's Visit to the Netherlands”) [Dutch stressed British had made great efforts to reach (?budget) settlement] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“UK oil policy: refinery and disposal strategy”) [need for review of North Sea oil pricing policy] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Labour Party study group on policy issues related to the Security Services) [MT like Callaghan declines to assist] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Joint Press Conference with Dutch Prime Minister (Jan Van Agt)
81 Feb 6 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for Dutch TV Channel NOS (visiting The Hague)
81 Feb 6 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for BBC (visiting The Hague)
81 Feb 6 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for ITN (visiting The Hague)
81 Feb 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 6 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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