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Text 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Questions tomorrow") [topics] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Rate Limits for Rating Authorities") [change in limits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Limits for Rating Authorities") [need for adequate controls to prevent authorities budgeting for a deficit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autopay; progress report on "framing his budget"; briefing for Washington - Lawson note] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker (Abolition Bill) [impact on charitable bodies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Asset Sales and Public Expenditure") [local authority housing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and the Fiscal Stance") [proposed schemes for asset sales becoming more complex] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Barclay minute to Whitelaw PS ("The Recording and Rental of Audio and Video Copyright Material") [MT retains doubts about blank tape levy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud) ["Saudi Arabia: Tornado"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to No.10 colleagues (BBC documentary on the 250th Anniversary of the Prime Minister's Official Residence) [producers' recce visit to No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 record of conversation ("250th Anniversary") [No.10 staff, BBC producers: meeting to discuss BBC documentary on No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: John Patten PS letter to No.10 ("Prevention of Drug Misuse") ["activities on which DHSS is taking the lead"; MT asks why health education film for young people is only being considered as a "possibility"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Fowler letter to Keith Joseph ("Review of Student Support") [request to be kept in loop, for social security implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Conveyancing by Employed Solicitors") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: MT concerned that Hailsham's position is inconsistent with Cabinet decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Ambassador Popov) ["Soviet Message for the Prime Minister"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Soviet Message to the Prime Minister") [MT "very angry indeed" about Howe pre-empting Ambassador's call on her] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 7th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler letter to Walker (“Unemployment Benefit for Redundant Miners”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Northern Ireland: letter to the Prime Minister from US Congressman Biaggi”) [requests discussion on Northern Ireland during MT visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 559 to FCO (1801Z) (“Prime Minister’s visit: American breakfast television interviews”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 18 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to HMT (“Coal Investment”) ['this is hardly the time to damage our public credibility by putting a question mark over levels of investment'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Henry Steel letter to Charles Powell (“NUM assets”) [sequestration of NUM assets: update on Luxembourg and Dublin proceedings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest) [Ponting case: “John Stanley put in the dock for alleged cover up”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Armstrong minute to MT (“Misc 104: Detailed Management Propsoals”) [“The team leaders for the five city action teams will be carefully chosen and it is on their enthusiasm and capacity that the success of the change will ultimately depend”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Reaganomics”) [“appealing to his own political sense on what real high rates and large deficits are doing to his own domestic manufacturing base, and to the US banking system, may bring the message home”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US economic policy”) [“It is a time when painful decisions must be made”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“The Official Reserves since 1979”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (Cabinet Office note on SDI research) [benefits of collaboration with US research whether or not SDI succeeds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Relations with Argentina”) [British-Argentine meeting in Montevideo: Argentine proposal] [declassified 2014]
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