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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
CABINET
CONCLUSIONS of a Meeting of the Cabinet held at 10 Downing Street on
THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER 1989
at 10.30 am
PRESENT
The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP Prime Minister
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey How MP
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Lord President of the Couril
The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth Affairs
The Rt Hon David Waddington QC MP Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Rt Hon Norman Fowler MP Secretary of State for Employment
The Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP Secretary of State for Health
The Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind QC MP Secretary of State for Scotland
The Rt. Hon John Wakeham MP Secretary of State for Energy
The Rt Hon Antony Newton MP
Secretary of State for Social Security
The Rt Hon Peter Brooke MP Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
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The Rt Hon The Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor
The Rt Hon John Major MP Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt Hon Peter Walker MP Secretary of State for Wales
Rt Hon Tom King MP
tretary of State for Defence
Hon Kenneth Baker MP
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Rt John MacGregor MP Secretary of State for Education and Science
The Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson MP Secretary of State for Transport
The Rt Hon The Lord Balstead Lord Privy Seal
The Rt Hon Christopher
en MP
Secretary of State for the Evironment
The Rt Hon John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture, Fishes
and Food
The Rt Hon Norman Lamont MP Chief Secretary, Treasury
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