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PREM19/1758
Foreign Policy (Review of the British Council) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 279

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Date Value Title
79 Aug 16 Th Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [efficiency savings] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Dec 7 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [funding options] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Dec 18 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Kenneth Baker minute to No.10 ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [proposed funding reduction] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jan 25 Fr Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to James Dunn MP (review of British Council funding) [proposed reduction] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Feb 8 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [proposed reduction in funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Mar 11 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (British Council funding) ["pressure from backbenchers building up to exempt [it] from its share of public expenditure cuts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Mar 13 Th Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [expenditure on the British Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Mar 13 Th Major Foreign Policy: Ian Gow letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Council: pay and cash limits") ["serious political consequences could follow the imposition of further cuts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Mar 31 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington letter to Chairman of the British Council ("The British Council: expenditure reductions") [funding review] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Apr 1 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The British Council") [funding cuts: "the Council intend to mount a sharp campaign against us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Apr 3 Th Major Foreign Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Carrington ("The British Council") [funding cuts to offset civil service pay rise: "I continue to see no case for special treatment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 May 15 Th Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("The British Council") ["propose to mount a campaign against the reductions in their grants and I am concerned that we may find ourselves facing defeat in Parliament on the issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jun 2 Mo Major Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT (British Council funding) [MT to meet with Chairman to discuss proposed reduction] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jun 3 Tu Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Sir Charles Troughton; MT, Lord Carrington, Howe, Jopling) [MT informs her Ministers she is against funding cuts directly after meeting with Chairman of British Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jun 10 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington letter to Jopling ("British Council") [Early Day Motion calling for Government to provide adequate financial support] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jun 17 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("British Council") [funding options] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jun 20 Fr Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Howe "reluctantly" agrees to increased funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jul 1 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Chairman of the British Council letter to MT (British Council finances) [thanks MT for intervening to increase budget till 1983/84] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jul 7 Mo Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to Jim Callaghan MP (British Council finances) [budget agreed till 1983/84] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jul 5 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Pym minute to Rees ("British Council finances 1982/83 and 1983/84") [case for funding shortfall - MT taking close interest] [declassified Dec 2014]