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PDF 79 Aug 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [efficiency savings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [funding options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Kenneth Baker minute to No.10 ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [proposed funding reduction] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to James Dunn MP (review of British Council funding) [proposed reduction] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Interdepartmental Review of the British Council") [proposed reduction in funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [expenditure on the British Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Mar 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington letter to Chairman of the British Council ("The British Council: expenditure reductions") [funding review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT (British Council funding) [MT to meet with Chairman to discuss proposed reduction] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Carrington letter to Jopling ("British Council") [Early Day Motion calling for Government to provide adequate financial support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("British Council") [funding options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Howe "reluctantly" agrees to increased funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Jim Callaghan MP (British Council finances) [budget agreed till 1983/84] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Spain: British Council school in Madrid") [MT favours extension of premises] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Parsons minute to Coles ("British Council funding") ["would be the worst kind of false economy to inflict further cuts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to Rees ("British Council: expenditure provision") ["a sudden reduction... would be hard to defend in the House and give rise to much more robust lobbying"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to Rees (British Council funding) [case for additional funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (fiftieth anniversary of the British Council) [message of congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("British Council finances") ["We need to reach a decision on this quickly or we shall face a major Parliamentary row"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("British Council finances") [Rees vexed about press leak regarding MT approval of additonal funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Director-General of the British Council letter to MT ('Whitty boys: boarding school fees' case; FCO proposal for financial management/policy review) [MT: "...must pay [their fees]. It is not a matter of law - but of doing the only decent thing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the British Council) [finances] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by Sir David Orr, Chairman of the British Council: 5 March") [annual report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the British Council) [annual report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Director-General of the British Council") [appointment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Chairman of the British Council (Annual Report) [notes "personal interest in the Council's activities overseas"] [declassified Dec 2014]
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