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PREM19/687
Defence (Defence budget) (Part 7)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 219

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Date Value Title
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Defence: Whitmore minute to MT ("Intelligence Briefing for Opposition Members") [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 5 We Major Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Review of Defence Cash Limits") [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr Major Defence: Nott minute to MT (Nott does not accept proposed public expenditure plans for defence) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 19 Mo Major Defence: Brittan minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [comment on Nott's objections to defence spending plans] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 23 Fr Major Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Defence Expenditure") [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 18 We Major Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [MOD position on defence budget] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 19 Th Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Nott-Brittan-Armstrong-Gregson) [defence expenditure] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 19 Th Major Defence: Gregson briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure: Defence") [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 20 Fr Major Defence: Armstrong minute to MT ("Defence") [conflict between HMT and MOD on defence expenditure] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 20 Fr Major Defence: Armstrong minute to MT ("Defence Prices") [prices of defence equipment] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 15 Tu Major Defence: Whitmore to Sir Tom McCaffrey (defence briefing for Michael Foot) [asks whether Foot wishes to go ahead with briefing] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 20 We Major Defence: Michael Foot letter to MT (defence briefing for Michael Foot: Foot turns down offer) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 22 Fr Major Defence: Whitmore minute to MT (defence briefing for Michael Foot and David Steel: Foot turns down offer) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 26 Tu Major Defence: Vereker minute to Whitmore ("OD: Defence estimates and Service pay") [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 26 Tu Major Defence: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("The Defence Programme (OD(82) 2, OD(82) 3, OD(82) 4)") [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 1 Mo Major Defence: MT letter to David Steel (arrangements for defence briefing for David Steel) [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 2 Tu Major Defence: David Steel letter to MT (arrangements for defence briefing) [Steel 'astonished' that Foot turned down offer of briefing] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 9 Tu Major Defence: Jopling minute to MT (defence expenditure: predicts "serious trouble" with backbenchers if defence expenditure does not meet growth target) [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 9 Tu Major Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Defence") [political problems if defence expenditure does not meet growth target] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 12 Fr Major Defence: Whitmore minute to MT ("Defence and the Public Expenditure White Paper") [dispute between HMT and MOD on public expenditure] [declassified 2012]