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Text 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“London Underground Strike”) [“some 21,500 NUR men were called out on official strike from midnight last night”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to General Ershad (Bonn Economic Summit) ["the problems of developing countries... were very much in our minds during the Summit"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to UN Secretary-General (Bonn Economic Summit) ["the main contribution we as industrialised countries could make to world prosperity was to promote sustained growth and higher employment in our own economies"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Julio Maria Sanguinette (Bonn Economic Summit) [attendees "recognised and agreed that a lasting solution" to the problem of Latin American debt "can only be achieved if all those involved continue in their constructive co-operation"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 1st ("Local Government Finance Studies") [Most confidential record] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Ridley ("New burdens on local government") [acknowledges imperfections in his list] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Running Costs Targets") [how to make new targets regime public] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Gowrie minute to MT ("Policy Work and the FMI") [supports Rees's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Jenkin PS ("Property Repayment Services") [supports Jenkin's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Value for Money" seminar with Department of Employment) [request for Peter Morrison to attend] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Tebbit minute to MT ("Public Purchasing Initiative (PPI)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australian Bicentenary 1988") [fund-raising, loan of Constitution Act] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Disasters: MT letter to Ambassador Mamba of Swaziland (Bradford City Football Club fire) [letter of thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to MT ("250th Anniversary of No.10: BBC filming on Tuesday 21 May") [shots of MT being briefed for PMQs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland District Council Elections: 15 May 1985") [UUP have reasserted dominance over DUP, SDLP held its ground] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to John Hermon (deaths of RUC officers) [sympathy to families] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Disposal of Surplus Land in Public Ownership") ["my proposals to extend the use of land registers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Moore letter to Adam Butler ("The Privatisation Programme: Royal Ordnance") [argues against Butler's suggested need to delay flotation date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Review of Student Support") [welcomes a discussion of the proposals, notably on participation of banks in loan scheme; requests short note on broad policy questions as an agenda] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Michael Havers, Nicholas Scott) [standards in schools; pay negotiations: 85-86 & 86-87; legislation to curb powers of Local Education Authorities; scale of pay increases; additional financial resources; teachers' duties] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Nicholas Scott, Allan Stewart, Oliver Letwin) ["Teachers' Pay": discussion of Joseph proposal "to make more money available in 1986-87 in return for agreement on appraisal and on managing the teaching force"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Robin Nicholson minute to Howe ("Eureka/Eurotype") [proposal for a warrant for high technology goods: draft letter for Howe to send to Dumas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland District Council Elections: 15 May 1985") [analysis of results] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 letter to Department of Employment ("Long Term Unemployment") ['[MT] struck by the co-existence of very high levels of unemployment...and the shabbiness of cities and motorways'; seeks schemes to address both] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Social Security Review: Public Service Pensions") [indexation; impact of personal pensions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Study of Tax and Social Security Systems") [public presentation of joint Departmental approach] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for Lawson (“Polish Debt”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [coal stocks, power station endurance, and pit closures and redundancies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Coal Industry”) [power station stocks and endurance, pit closures, opencast mining, structure of the coal industry, NCB executive] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Official Group on Coal (MISC 57) report (“Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike”) [MT: 'We shall meet to discuss'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“It is vital that we demonstrate our commitment to the economic recovery of the area”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Sherbourne minute for MT (CRD suggestions to improve government PR) [ministers should make more non-departmental speeches & sharpen responses to attack] [released 2015]
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