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

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

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86 Jun 2 Mo Major Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT (bilateral with Whitelaw) [DHSS personnel; visit to Russia; general political position] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jun 30 Tu Major Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Lord President: Items for the Agenda") [water privatisation, housing, community charge - plans to counter Conservative opposition] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 2 Mo Major Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Lord President") [immigration bill; legislative programme 1986/87] [released Jul 2017]
87 Oct 20 Tu Major Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Whitelaw") [response to the "Great Storm"; prisons officers' dispute; Star Chamber; health of Lord Chancellor; party chairmanship] [released Jul 2017]
88 May 23 Mo Major Prime Minister/Home Secretary: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Home Secretary") [football hooliganism; Prison Officers' Association; police pay and manpower; Brent and Section 13 grants; broadcasting; Toronto G7 & drugs; General Assembly speech] [released Jul 2018]
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]
87 Apr 24 Fr Major Prime Minister/Environment: Norgrove briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Ridley") ["how to play the Government's future housing and urban policies in the run up to the general election"] [released Jul 2018]
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]
86 Feb 5 We Major Prime Minister/Environment: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Kenneth Baker) [Rates; Water; Inner Cities] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 27 Sa Major Prime Minister/Environment: Nick Ridley letter to MT (offer to help with policy groups & manifesto; asks to meet) ["a short talk about a lot of the problems at DOE - whenever you have time"] [released Jul 2018]
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]
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 Jul 27 We Major Prime Minister/Environment: Gray briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Ridley") ["wants a quick word about the latest state of play on Alice Coleman, the Lyceum and 'one or two other matters'"] [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 Nov 18 We Major Prime Minister/Energy: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Walker") [NIREX; CEGB chairman's salary] [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]
88 Oct 24 Mo Major Prime Minister/Defence: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Defence Secretary") [new tank; defence spending; organisation of intelligence in NI] [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]
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]
86 Mar 14 Fr Major Prime Minister/Defence: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Defence Secretary") ["general political" and defence issues] [released Jul 2017]