1981 Mar 11 - 1981 May 17
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/415
Defence (Defence budget) (Part 5)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2011 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 397 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
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| 81 Mar 11 We | Major | Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure 1981/82") [Nott asks for leeway on defence cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Major | Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure 1981-82") [response to Nott's minute on defence cuts: no leeway] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 17 Tu | Major | Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Defence Expenditure 1981/82") [further defence cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 17 Tu | Major | Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("Defence Policy and Programme") [future defence policy] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Major | Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1981 (C(81) 11)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Major | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Armstrong) ["Defence Expenditure, 1981/82"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 11 Mo | Major | Defence: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Nott) [defence expenditure, NATO, USSR] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 11 Mo | Major | Defence: UKE Jeddah letter to No.10 ("Defence Sales: Training Courses") [complaint at "exorbitant" costs of UK training compared to US and France] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 13 We | Key | Defence: Nott minute to MT (views of First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Henry Leach, on defence programme) [Leach disagrees with Nott's proposals] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 14 Th | Major | Defence: Nott minute to MT ("The Defence Programme") [revision of the defence programme; views of Chiefs of Staff] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 14 Th | Major | Defence: Nott minute to MT ("The Defence Programme") [Nott requests MT's guidance] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 14 Th | Major | Defence: Nott minute to MT ("The Defence Programme: HMS Ark Royal") [Naval Staff propose cancellation of HMS Ark Royal and scrapping Britannia; Nott opposed] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 15 Fr | Major | Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("The Defence Programme") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 15 Fr | Major | Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("The Defence Programme") [timetable] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 17 Su | Major | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Nott) ["Keith Speed"; Speed's critical remarks on the defence programme] [declassified 2011] |