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PREM19/161
Defence (Defence budget) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 129

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Date Value Title
79 May 10 Th Major Defence: Pym minute to MT ("The Defence Budget and Cash Limit") [meeting of NATO defence ministers] [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Defence: Biffen minute to MT ("The Defence Budget and Cash Limit: NATO Meeting") [Pym should not commit himself to a precise level of defence spending] [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("Defence Budget and Cash Limit") [meeting of NATO defence ministers] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 2 Mo Major Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Defence Cash Limit 1979-80") [requests that additional funds for Defence will be made available if necessary] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 3 Tu Major Defence: Biffen minute to MT ("Defence Cash Limits 1979/80") ["the Defence Secretary should give no assurance that the Defence Budget will be compensated in the way he suggests"] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 5 Th Major Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Defence Cash Limits 1979-80") [Allies would not accept UK failure to abide by NATO target on defence expenditure] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 6 Fr Major Defence: Lankester minute to MT ("Defence Cash Limit 1979-80") [MT: "We are not going to demoralise the whole of our Armed Forces by taking out more in V.A.T. than we added in cash limits"] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 6 Fr Major Defence: Vile minute to Lankester ("Defence Cash Limit 1979-80") [dispute between MOD and Treasury] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 9 Mo Major Defence: Biffen minute to MT ("Defence Cash Limits 1979/80") [Biffen rejects Pym's argument about effect of VAT on the Defence Budget] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 11 We Major Defence: Biffen minute to MT ("Defence Cash Limit") [Biffen expresses concern at MT's decision to allow cash limit for Defence to be increased] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr Major Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure in the PESC Period") [Pym expresses concern that UK Government will be seen to miss NATO target on Defence expenditure] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 16 Tu Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [rejects Pym's arguments on Defence expenditure] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 17 We Major Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [responds to the Chancellor's arguments on Defence expenditure] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 19 Fr Major Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("Defence Budget") [disagreement between MOD and HMT] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 24 We Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [options for resolving MOD/HMT dispute] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 30 Tu Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84") [proposal for resolving MOD/HMT dispute] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 6 Tu Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Biffen) ["Defence Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84"] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Defence: Armstrong minute to Lankester (Chancellor's proposals on Defence expenditure) [MOD/HMT dispute] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [proposed cuts to Defence spending] [declassified 2010]