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Text 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Wicks minute for MT ("Broad-Beamed Warship Design: Court Case Involving the Navy") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (servicemen in Cyprus charged under the Official Secrets Act: allegations of interference with trial jury) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Biffen PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lynda Chalker letter to Tony Banks MP (taxicard scheme) [addressing her comments made in Parliament on proposed GLC revisions to the scheme and its cost-effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Broad-beamed warship design: court case involving the Navy") [No.10 Policy Unit dossier of papers; MT interest] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 10 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Chapter 9] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: MOD minute to No.10 (Visit to London by the Yugoslav Minister of Defence) [MT will not be attending] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 935 to FCO (0300Z) ("Appointment of new Governor of Victoria") [McCaughey's credentials] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“South Africa: Looking Ahead”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Westland: “Westland deal backed by cabinet” (board decision for Sikorksky deal “has the Government’s full endorsement and support”)
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Westland: “Battle on the Westland front” (Rodney Cowton explains the Heseltine-Brittan clash)
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (‘Westlands’) [investigates Heseltine claim that cabinet committee meeting was cancelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (Westland) [seeks & receives approval from MT to make HC statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD letter to DTI (“Westland: Statement to the House”) [seeks amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Armstrong minute to No.10 (MT’s trip to Vancouver: possible transport options) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute for MT (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [“highly unsatisfactory” failure to agree 1986 budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Baker (“Local Authority Capital Overspend 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“1986 Public Expenditure White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Croydon pilot scheme on educational assessment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cable Authority letter to Kenneth Baker (financial ideas) [development and allowances, enterprise zones] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [Parliamentary sub-committee unprecedented request for Cabinet paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT “attaches great importance to [its] success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Sex Discrimination and Shops Bills”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to Brittan (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
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