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1984 Jan 12 - 1984 Jul 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1345
Posts and telecommunications (Future of the Post Office: proposals for Post Office counters network; telecommunications liberalisation and privatisation; Telecommunications Bill; British Telecom (BT) licence; Mercury Communications Ltd) (Part 8)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 362
Any docs withheld? 2
Themes: Parliament, Privatized & state industries, Science & technology

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Date Value Title
84 Jan 12 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (Post Office closures) [MT agrees to meeting with Kenneth Baker to discuss proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 17 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT ("Your Meeting with Ken Baker on Post Offices: Wednesday, 18th January 1984 at 4.00 pm") [closures] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 18 We Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kenneth Baker) ["Post Office Counters": closures] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 6 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (BT flotation: wider share ownership) [memo from Barclays Bank; amendment to Telecommunications Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 9 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Interconnect: Clause 45") [deletion from Telecommunications Bill so as "to make industrial disputes the concern of civil rather than criminal remedies... will help to counterbalance the hostile union reaction to our other proposals"; MT concerns] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 15 We Major Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Mercury Licence") [proposal to grant licence directly to Mercury rather than to Cable and Wireless] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 22 We Major Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office letter to Home Office (Mercury Licence) [national security concerns about granting licence to Mercury rather than to Cable and Wireless] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 27 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Mercury Licence") ["power to give direction to Cable and Wireless in respect of its overseas operations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 1 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Kenneth Baker letter to Deputy Chief Executive, The Plessey Company plc (supply of System X equipment to the French PTT) ["we need to carry British Telecom with us"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 9 Fr Major Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("BT Flotation") ["complexities and issues which must be settled, many in very short order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 19 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: Kenneth Baker letter to Peter Rees ("Postal Tariff Increases") [proposed figures] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 20 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Mr. Tebbit to discuss industrial issues) [BSC privatisation/closures; Mercury; Middle East contract; "Ministerial matter"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 21 We Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit) ["Industrial Issues"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 5 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Conservative Research Department briefing ("Telecommunications Bill") ["Consideration of Lords Amendments Monday 9th April 1984"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 19 Th Major Posts and telecommunications: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Baker) ["BT: Capital Structure + RPI-X"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 24 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: MT letter to Charles Read ("IBM and BT: ITAP Report") [acknowledgement of IT Advisory Panel report sent by Post Office Director of Information Technology] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 24 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT (BT regulatory regime) ["disagreement between the Chancellor and Mr. Tebbit on the DT pricing formula"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 27 Fr Major Posts and telecommunications: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (Anglo-French collaboration on telecommunications) [BT Chair's visit to Paris] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 30 Mo Major Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Telecom - RPI-X") [draft oral statement for 2 May] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 1 Tu Major Posts and telecommunications: Alan Walters telegram to John Redwood ("British Telecom") [Mercury & "the need to promote effective competition in telecoms"] [declassified Jan 2014]