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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1100
Posts and telecommunications (Future of the Post Office; cable expansion and broadcasting policy; telecommunications liberalisation and privatisation; Telecommunications Bill) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 284
Themes: Privatized & state industries

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Date Value Title
82 Oct 28 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Cable systems: Hunt Report") [proposed Ministerial sub-committee to draft Government response] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 8 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: Jenkin minute to MT ("Privatisation of British Telecommunications") ["question of how to prevent BT exploiting the dominant position it will continue to hold"; proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 9 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Kenneth Baker, Alan Walters) ["British Telecommunications: regionalisation"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 11 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Lord Cockfield letter to Jenkin PS ("Telecommunications Bill") [No.10: "Cockfield clearly thinks that the BT Bill is moving too fast, and needs more thought"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 17 We Major Posts and telecommunications: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Telecommunications Bill: arrangement for Introduction") [Jenkin "considers that the length and complexity of the Bill make it necessary to provide... [MPs] and members of the public with a detailed explanation of the regulatory arrangements in everyday language"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Telecom and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") ["Either we privatise... Or we leave it in the hands of the state and send in the MMC... But to send in the MMC now would be the very worst time"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 3 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kenneth Baker) ["Telecommunications Bill: Littlechild Report"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 3 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Jenkin minute to MT ("Telecommunications Bill: Littlechild Report") ["options for regulating BT's profitability under the new regime"; summary of recommendations; proposals for Government response; draft statement for Kenneth Baker to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 7 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 minute to MT ("Statements on Telecommunications and CEGB Vessel Charter") [summaries of their receptions in Parliament; publication of Littlechild report;controversy over competition on the prime instrument (Telecommunications Bill)] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 8 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Possible British Telecom involvement in purchase of International Aeradio Ltd") ["should BT be permitted to bid for IAL at all?... If so, what conditions should be attached...?"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fr Major Posts and telecommunications: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Post Office prices") [report on meeting with Post Office Chairman & negotiation of reduction in price increase on stamps] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 28 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: Gerard Vaughan letter to Kenneth Baker ("Telecommunications Bill: Clause 41") [telephone bill disputes: "shifts the burden of proof from the plaintiff to the defendant (the customer)"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 11 Fr Major Posts and telecommunications: Jenkin letter to Howell (Telecommunications Bill) ["provisions... authorising licensed telecommunications operators to install their apparatus in highways": addressing local authority concerns] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Telecom: 1982-83 undershoot") [analysis & proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]