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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3496
Prime Minister (Prime Minister's occasional bilateral meetings with various Cabinet colleagues) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 283
Any docs withheld? 4

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Showing items 21 - 40 of 47

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Date Valuesort descending Title
87 Nov 18 We Major Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Whitelaw) [progress in the legislative programme] [released Jul 2017]
87 Apr 27 Mo Major Prime Minister/Environment: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Nick Ridley) [future housing and urban policies in the run up to the general election"] [released Jul 2018]
90 Nov 30 Fr Major Prime Minister/Defence: Charles Powell briefing for Major ("Bilateral with the Defence Secretary") [Gulf; defence spending; procurement decisions; political problems; nuclear deterrent] [released Jul 2017]
90 May 2 We Major Prime Minister/Defence: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Defence Secretary") [release of "Winchester Three"; Tristar maintenance contract; EH101; defence options work] [released Jul 2017]
89 Aug 18 Fr Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute for MT (Community Charge; planning; environment; water) [preparing "realistic survey of the problems of introducing the charge with a menu of costed options"] [released Jul 2017]
88 Jan 26 Tu Major Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [John Hume talks with IRA; Stalker/Sampson; contact with the Unionists; redeployment of the army; extradition] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jul 10 Fr Major Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Defence Secretary: Northern Ireland") [CGS's concerns about army's role in NI and constraints on it; thinks army "may even be losing the battle"] [released Jul 2017]
90 Feb 14 We Major Prime Minister/Defence: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Defence Secretary") [new Chief of Defence Staff; defence review progress; submarine operations] [released Jul 2017]
88 Jan 27 We Major Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT - Tom King) [Stalker/Sampson; Sinn Fein/SDLP contacts; contacts with the Unionists; redeployment of the army in NI; extradition with Republic] [released Jul 2017]
86 Apr 11 Fr Major Prime Minister/DTI: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Trade and Industry") [Channon in post for two months - "purpose of this general chat is to hear from him his current concerns"; shipbuilding; manifesto] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 5 Fr Major Prime Minister/Agriculture: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting of Colleagues) [Jopling's "anxieties and position"; Campbell-Savours and national security] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 25 Tu Major Prime Minister/Transport: Wybrew briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Nicholas Ridley") [likely topics] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 4 Tu Major Prime Minister/Environment: Griffiths briefing for MT (bilateral with Kenneth Baker) [Rates Green Paper; RSG 1986/87; Inner Cities; Nuclear Waste; Green Belt; Water Privatisation; Housing Policy] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 5 We Major Prime Minister/Environment: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Kenneth Baker) [Rates; Water; Inner Cities] [released Jul 2017]
86 Feb 13 Th Major Prime Minister: Addison minute for Wicks ('Bilaterals') [timetable for proposed regular one-on-one meetings with cabinet colleagues] [released Jul 2017]
87 Sep 28 Mo Major Prime Minister/Environment: Norgrove briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Ridley") [inner cities, "I suspect to lobby you about the balance between DTI and DOE"] [released Jul 2018]
85 Dec 17 Tu Major Prime Minister: Wicks minute for MT (bilaterals with cabinet colleagues) [proposed regular one-on-one meetings with selected colleagues; MT agrees] [released Jul 2017]
88 Apr 19 Tu Major Prime Minister/Environment: Gray briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State for the Environment: 20 April") ["the state of play on the many balls he has in the air, e.g. Housing Bill, Local Government Bill, reconsideration of Local Authority Capital Controls"] [released Jul 2018]
88 May 23 Mo Major Prime Minister/Environment: Gray briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr Ridley: 24 May") [Thyssen; housing policy - has reservations about Walker's flexi-ownership scheme] [released Jul 2018]
87 Mar 11 We Major Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [possible MT meeting with Molyneaux and Paisley; Haughey's return as Taoiseach; security matters] [released Jul 2017]