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81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Chief Whip's PS letter to Robin Barden (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discussion with Soviet Ambassador: comments) [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Francis Pym, Soviet Ambassador) [invasion of Afghanistan; British-Soviet relations; exchanges of Parliamentary visits] [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: No.10 minute to MT (national priorities and policies for health and personal social services) [MT concerned about increase in staff numbers, and requests more detail] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National health: Heseltine minute to MT ("NHS Manpower") ["I simply do not know how I can explain to local government that over a single year the manpower employed in the National Health Service has increased by 25,000 or 2.1%"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Breakfast with Weinberger, NATO Secretary General, AWACs to NATO, The Australian and New Zealand Ambassadors' Calls") [declassified 2016]
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 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 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Treasury minute (Chancellor meeting with senior officials) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Couzens minute for Chancellor ("The Exchange Rate: Ministerial Briefing") [wary of Howe circulating a paper to colleagues on sterling] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (interest rate & the exchange rate) [gear interest rates to M0 without explicit link to exchange rate] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 10 (Poland - Possible Economic Sanctions) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Briefing for American Correspondents in London") [arrangements for on-the-record briefing] [released 2012]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Canadian Constitution") [Canadian Secretary of State of External Affairs makes statement on enquiry into activities of UK High Commissioner to Canada] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") [NUM decides "to recommend industrial action to a ballot of members if the NCB does not withdraw its 'plans for closures'"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Miners") [thoughts on threat of strike by coal miners: "I am frankly concerned at the apparently relaxed approach of the Government to the threat"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: MT letter to R. Sidaway of Ductile Steels Ltd (private sector steel and competition from the British Steel Corporation) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Labour Party: Sanders minute to MT (request for meeting by David Watkins MP to discuss closure of Consett Steel Works and other closures) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: Dale Campbell-Savours MP letter to MT (closure of Distington Foundry in Workington) [request for meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (accepting MT’s invitation to speak at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool) [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Ingham minute to MT (BBC radio series on the civil service) [advises that Ministers and officials should be allowed to participate] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: Soames minute to MT ("Concorde Cost Sharing") [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Firearms for the RUC") [US ban on export licences] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Budget: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England-John Wiggins) [bank levy] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cash Limit Factors") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Jenkin minute to MT (press reporting on Government's proposals for dealing with NHS and Civil Service pay) ["embarrassing developments"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Civil and Health Service Pay") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Belize: UKMIS New York telegram 119 to FCO (0034Z) ("Belize/Guatemala: New York Talks") [report on talks between Belizean and Guatemalan sides] [declassified 2013]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Hoskyns MSS)	Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget discussion) [MT & Howe rejecting draconian budget as "not on politically"]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: HMA The Hague despatch to FCO (“Visit to the Netherlands by the Prime Minister on 6 February 1981”) ["short working visit … had the intended effect"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“International Development Association: 6th replenishment: bridging arrangements: Parliamentary timetable”) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor-Chancellor's Private Secretary) [wants "one private word" with Howe on bank levy] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 13 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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