1983 Apr 12 - 1984 Jan 11
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1344
Posts and telecommunications (Future of the Post Office; telecommunications liberalisation and privatisation; Telecommunications Bill; draft licence for British Telecom (BT)) (Part 7)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 370 |
| Any docs withheld? | 1 |
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Selections from this file
Showing items 21 - 39 of 39
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Oct 28 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("BT Draft Licence") [MT authorises circulation of draft Government statement on future competition policy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Statement on Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [comments on draft Tebbit statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Statement on Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [comments on draft DTI statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Cable and Wireless and British Telecom") [stipulation that Chair/Chief Executive of C&W be UK citizen: contravention of EEC Treaty] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 7 Mo | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [MT's requested changes to Tebbit draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 8 Tu | Major | Posts and telecommunications: John Moore letter to Tebbit ("Competition Policy and Telecommunications") [comments on Tebbit draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 10 Th | Major | Posts and telecommunications: John Moore letter to Kenneth Baker ("Telecommunications Competition") [sale of Cable & Wireless shares; new national obligations on Mercury; Mercury/POEU case] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 14 Mo | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Howe minute to Tebbit ("British Telecommunications Articles of Association") [stipulation to make majority of BT Board British: contravention of EEC Treaty; possible European Court case] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 16 We | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Further Competition policy in telecommunications) [text of statement revised at request of No.10] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 18 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabel and Wireless Share Sale") [sale of Government's remaining shares] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 25 Fr | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Sale of BT Shares") ["dividing line between Party and Government and between information and propaganda"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Treasury briefing for MT ("Cable and Wireless Sale: Briefing") [undersubscription of shares issue] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit record of conversation (John Redwood, British Telecom board members) ["British Telecom" - acquisition of ICL, INMOS, privatisation prospects] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 minute to MT (Lord Orr-Ewing's request for a meeting to discuss suppression of commercial competition in the telecommunications industry) [MT agrees to meeting] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Orr-Ewing to discuss liberalisation in telecommunications) [complaint against BT/Mercury duopoly] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Major | Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Orr-Ewing, Kenneth Baker, Lord Mottistone, Bowen Wells MP) ["Liberalisation in Telecommunications"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 22 Th | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Post Office Industrial Action") [negotiations; bonus system as deterrent against strike action] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 11 We | Major | Posts and telecommunications: Jenkin letter to Kenneth Baker (Mercury Communications proposal to install microwave transmitter apparatus in Manchester) [procedure for appealing against local authority planning permission refusal; trade union influence on Council's decision] [declassified Jan 2014] |