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1986 Jul 1 - 1987 Feb 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2028
Broadcasting (Television licence fees; Peacock Report on Financing the BBC; BBC proposal for a world television news service) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 256
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86 Jul 1 Tu Major Broadcasting: Lawson PS minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report") [response to recommendation on regulatory arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 1 Tu Minor Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Peacock Report") [statement on regulatory arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 2 We Major Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove ("Peacock Report") [Hurd's statement on public service broadcasting] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 2 We Major Broadcasting: David Norgrove ​​​​​minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report") [regulatory system of controls] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 3 Th Major Broadcasting: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Peacock Report") [membership of ministerial group] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 4 Fr Major Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("BBC Accounts") [accounting practices in respect of depreciation] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 30 We Major Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Peacock Report: Extension of ITV Contracts") [if nothing is done, would be locking them into the current system] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 4 Mo Major Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Peacock Report") [problems of obscenity and violence and political bias] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 6 We Minor Broadcasting: Channon PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("Peacock Report: Extension of ITV Contracts") [renewal of IBA contracts] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 11 Mo Minor Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Douglas Hurd ("Peacock Report") [does not agree with Lawson on political bias] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 19 Tu Minor Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Douglas Hurd (Peacock Report) [IBA contract renewal] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 22 Fr Minor Broadcasting: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Peacock Report: IBA Contracts") [two year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 27 We Minor Broadcasting: Mark Addison minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report: ITV Contracts") [two year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 8 Mo Major Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to Norman Tebbit (meeting Radio 3) [improving radio broadcasting output] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 10 We Major Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [contract period for DBS] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 19 Fr Major Broadcasting: George Younger minute to Geoffrey Howe ("World Administrative Radio Conference on High Frequency Broadcasting - Geneva, February 1987") [defence commitments] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 24 We Minor Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute ("MISC 128 (Broadcasting Policy)") [licence fee, radio Green Paper] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 29 Mo Major Broadcasting: ITN Editor letter to Norman Tebbit (World TV service) [see no reason why public money should be called upon] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 7 Tu Major Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to No. 10 ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [subscription TV, ITV contracts, radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 10 Fr Major Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services: 15 October 1986") [radio, telecommunications systems, licence fee] [declassified Feb 2016]