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PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 Lobby Briefing (publications, Yugoslavia, environment/local government debate, US elections) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [MoD manpower figures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Capital Spending") [when to publish figures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Monthly Note on Public Sector Borrowing") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Ridley PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Capital Spending") [period to be covered by projections] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper 1985") [publication of figures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Younger PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Capital Spending") [period to be covered by projections] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Turnbull ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [capital spending figures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [defence manpower and capital] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("FCO Expenditure: Sterling and Overseas Inflation") [Howe does not accept he shoudl start implementing reductions in programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Barclay note to Andrew Turnbull (Public Expenditure Survey) ["MT does not wish to intervene - yet"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Keith Joseph ("Agricultural R and D Expenditure") [possible redundancies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Robin Butler ("Public Expenditure - Presentation") [publication "brings together most, if not all, of the bad news about the working out of Government policy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Review") ["our policy is to keep public expenditure broadly stable in real terms"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Brian Mower (speaking note for ministers) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (PEWP publication arrangements) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Whitelaw PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [need to present plans positively] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Public Expenditure - Presentation") ["It is desirable to bring together decisions about expenditure and taxes"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [should aim for a shorter period between public spending survey and the Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public expenditure survey - lessons for the future") [difficult 1984 Survey, prospects for 1985] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Review") [presentation of public spending cuts and tax cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts and John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [could be "political pressures to undo tough decisions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey - Lessons for the Future") [procedural suggestion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [departmental plans should be presented positively] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Whitelaw PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [cuts to overseas services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Whitelaw-Brittan-Jenkin-Biffen-Fowler etc) [government's economic and social policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Publication of 1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Robin Butler ("Hoddinot Report/Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Brittan PS (Public Expenditure background note) ["sticking to the plans" essential to economic policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Turnbull ("Capital Expenditure") [presentation of the government's case] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Howe PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: FCO") [can't accept anything that implies figures for FCO programmes are not fixed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey) [spending blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Brittan PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper (CMND 9428") [publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to Peter Walker (""Public Expenditure White Paper") [impact of miners' strike on figures for 1984-85] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: FCO") [Howe will not make further adjustments to FCO programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Brittan-Rees-Armstrong-Middleton) [difficulty acheiving goal of holding expenditure constant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("The Pharmaceutical Industry") [control over the drugs budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Butler minute to MT (meeting with Lawson) [Lawson becoming worried about public spending prospects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure: Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee (TCSC) Hearing") [notes for Rees' appearance] [declassified 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 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Ian Gow ("Sale and Leaseback and Interest Swaps Water Authorities") [water authorities' wish to act commercially] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [examples of waste and mismanagement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Gas Prices") [MT does not think proposed study would achieve anything] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey Guidelines") [facing "another tough Survey"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Gas Prices") [Treasury wants to put prices up] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") [aim of applying a progressive squeeze] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (1985 Public Expenditure Survey) [departments should be dissuaded from putting forward damaging cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") ["pretty pathetic that Government running costs have risen faster than inflation"] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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