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PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rees letter to Whitelaw ("Public Services (Transfer of Functions) Bill") [pending legislation "it would be valuable to have an assessment from colleagues on the transfers from their departments planned over the next few years for which the enacting of the Bill in the 1984-85 Session is thought to be necessary"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("E(A) Privatisation Review") ["We have now clearly set out the shape of the prospective privatisaton programme for future years and the implications for the legislative timetable and capital markets... I hope that we can obtain unqualified endorsement for the whole programme... you may like to be forewarned of one or two problem areas"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Competition and Privatisation") [candidates for privatisation; market implications of the proposed programme; legislative implications; proposal to transfer all except "special" shares to Treasury] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT (privatisation of gas & electricity: press leaks) [Walker angry about "totally untrue stories"; asks MT to identify source of the leaks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.1o Policy Unit minute to MT ("Contracting-out in local government") [Jenkin paper on progress to date and options for legislation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley letter to Heseltine ("Sealink Sale: privatisation and defence") ["the possibility of restricting Sealink from "flagging out" any of its ships at any time, after privatisation, without Government approval"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley letter to John Moore (timetable for the sale of Sealink) [delay; bids] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley letter to John Moore ("Sealink Sale") [announcement; BR press release] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (sale of Government equity) ["The case for selling... seems overwhelming"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Sale of the Government's Residual Shareholding in Associated British Ports Holdings") [announcement; details of sale arrangement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Airports policy Movements at Heathrow - and Privatisation") [analysis of Ridley proposals in consultation paper for E(DL) committee ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Walker) ["Wytch Farm": difficulties regarding sale] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("Wytch Farm") ["The Government's objective is to obtain the best price for the [British Gas] disposal... There is no need to reopen the bidding to others... We do not consider the Government can be accused of bad faith in its dealings with the Dorset Group. Failure to complete a deal is a normal commercial risk... The Budget has significantly changed the value of Wytch Farm"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker) ["Wytch Farm": "difficulties which have arisen over the sale"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Bus Industry") [Ridley proposals to extend deregulation: "Only the persistent frustration of market forces could have produced a situation such as we now have"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("The Horserace Totalisator Board") [MT interested in privatisation proposal; Brittan presents case against it] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Sealink UK privatisation) [refusal of European Ferries' request to be released from its 1982 undertaking not to acquire Sealink] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (Lawson, Tebbit) ["Sealink": P&O eligibility to bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Sea Link") [press release on privatisation bids, and referral of P&O bid to Monopolies & Mergers Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Bus Industry") [outline of Ridley proposals, "intended as the basis of a White Paper in the summer"; main issues; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Younger minute to MT ("The Bus Industry") ["On reflection, I think it would be better to have a single White Paper covering the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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