Today we have released Cabinet Office files (PREM 49) covering the period 2000-2002.
The newly released files shed light on a range of subjects both at home and abroad under Tony Blair’s leadership.
Some examples of files being released include:
PREM 49/2352 USA. UK/US relations. This file contains a range of material in the wake of the Presidential election in late 2000, and the victory of George W. Bush.
PREM 49/1760 CABINET. Cabinet meetings: part 1. This file contains discussions about a Cabinet away day in September 1998.
PREM 49/1811 DISASTERS. Policy: part 4. This file contains a variety of letters of condolence from across the world, following the Paddington Rail Disaster and the Selby Rail Disaster. Material relating to discussions between the Prime Minister and Nelson Mandela about the Lockerbie bombing is also covered.
Also included are files covering UK relations with other countries such as China, Japan, France, and South Africa.
Read more about the release in our latest blog.
The files are available to view in the public reading rooms at The National Archives and you can browse from today using our catalogue, Discovery.
170 of the files have been digitised and can be viewed below:
- PREM 49/1705 PDF, 77.4 MB
- PREM 49/1727 PDF, 36.0 MB
- PREM 49/1730 PDF, 6.7 MB
- PREM 49/1732 PDF, 14.0 MB
- PREM 49/1733 PDF, 82.7 MB
- PREM 49/1734 PDF, 58.5 MB
- PREM 49/1735 PDF, 7.1 MB
- PREM 49/1736 PDF, 42.6 MB
- PREM 49/1737 PDF, 77.2 MB
- PREM 49/1738 PDF, 64.7 MB
- PREM 49/1740 PDF, 16.1 MB
- PREM 49/1741 PDF, 80.6 MB
- PREM 49/1742 PDF, 100.5 MB
- PREM 49/1743 PDF, 27.2 MB
- PREM 49/1744 PDF, 2.3 MB
- PREM 49/1745 PDF, 24.5 MB
- PREM 49/1746 PDF, 2.8 MB
- PREM 49/1747 PDF, 8.8 MB
- PREM 49/1749 PDF, 171.6 MB
- PREM 49/1751 PDF, 45.7 MB
- PREM 49/1752 PDF, 3.8 MB
- PREM 49/1753 PDF, 119.3 MB
- PREM 49/1760 PDF, 58.0 MB
- PREM 49/1762 PDF, 5.7 MB
- PREM 49/1763 PDF, 167.5 MB
- PREM 49/1764 PDF, 14.5 MB
- PREM 49/1765 PDF, 1.8 MB
- PREM 49/1766 PDF, 17.4 MB
- PREM 49/1792 PDF, 2.2 MB
- PREM 49/1794 PDF, 20.6 MB
- PREM 49/1796 PDF, 15.0 MB
- PREM 49/1810 PDF, 58.1 MB
- PREM 49/1811 PDF, 77.4 MB
- PREM 49/1818 PDF, 37.4 MB
- PREM 49/1819-1 PDF, 123.2 MB
- PREM 49/1819-2 PDF, 103.8 MB
- PREM 49/1822 PDF, 7.7 MB
- PREM 49/1824 PDF, 6.1 MB
- PREM 49/1825 PDF, 7.9 MB
- PREM 49/1835 PDF, 5.3 MB
- PREM 49/1837 PDF, 9.5 MB
- PREM 49/1846 PDF, 97.3 MB
- PREM 49/1847 PDF, 123.0 MB
- PREM 49/1848 PDF, 98.1 MB
- PREM 49/1849 PDF, 126.5 MB
- PREM 49/1850 PDF, 95.3 MB
- PREM 49/1864 PDF, 96.1 MB
- PREM 49/1865 PDF, 45.1 MB
- PREM 49/1877 PDF, 101.8 MB
- PREM 49/1901 PDF, 95.3 MB
- PREM 49/1902 PDF, 136.2 MB
- PREM 49/1907 PDF, 103.1 MB
- PREM 49/1910 PDF, 133.0 MB
- PREM 49/1913 PDF, 48.2 MB
- PREM 49/1919 PDF, 17.2 MB
- PREM 49/1959 PDF, 20.6 MB
- PREM 49/1960 PDF, 12.0 MB
- PREM 49/1969 PDF, 77.8 MB
- PREM 49/1977 PDF, 116.7 MB
- PREM 49/1991 PDF, 81.2 MB
- PREM 49/1992 PDF, 17.2 MB
- PREM 49/1993 PDF, 58.4 MB
- PREM 49/1994 PDF, 46.5 MB
- PREM 49/2010 PDF, 73.9 MB
- PREM 49/2014 PDF, 369.8 MB
- PREM 49/2015 PDF, 90.5 MB
- PREM 49/2016 PDF, 129.0 MB
- PREM 49/2017 PDF, 14.9 MB
- PREM 49/2018 PDF, 45.0 MB
- PREM 49/2020 PDF, 84.4 MB
- PREM 49/2021 PDF, 48.1 MB
- PREM 49/2022 PDF, 136.2 MB
- PREM 49/2023 PDF, 82.1 MB
- PREM 49/2030 PDF, 159.8 MB
- PREM 49/2031 PDF, 38.6 MB
- PREM 49/2036 PDF, 27.5 MB
- PREM 49/2088 PDF, 67.1 MB
- PREM 49/2095 PDF, 70.5 MB
- PREM 49/2097 PDF, 1.7 MB
- PREM 49/2098 PDF, 8.5 MB
- PREM 49/2100 PDF, 1.8 MB
- PREM 49/2108 PDF, 97.5 MB
- PREM 49/2111 PDF, 1.7 MB
- PREM 49/2112 PDF, 2.7 MB
- PREM 49/2113 PDF, 27.2 MB
- PREM 49/2114 PDF, 4.3 MB
- PREM 49/2115 PDF, 2.6 MB
- PREM 49/2116 PDF, 6.9 MB
- PREM 49/2117 PDF, 2.5 MB
- PREM 49/2118 PDF, 15.9 MB
- PREM 49/2120 PDF, 129.5 MB
- PREM 49/2130 PDF, 130.4 MB
- PREM 49/2131 PDF, 18.3 MB
- PREM 49/2132 PDF, 16.8 MB
- PREM 49/2134 PDF, 3.0 MB
- PREM 49/2135 PDF, 71.4 MB
- PREM 49/2136 PDF, 4.6 MB
- PREM 49/2149 PDF, 81.8 MB
- PREM 49/2150 PDF, 4.7 MB
- PREM 49/2153 PDF, 7.3 MB
- PREM 49/2154 PDF, 3.4 MB
- PREM 49/2155 PDF, 6.9 MB
- PREM 49/2165 PDF, 3.4 MB
- PREM 49/2169 PDF, 2.4 MB
- PREM 49/2170 PDF, 9.1 MB
- PREM 49/2171 PDF, 4.1 MB
- PREM 49/2184 PDF, 120.0 MB
- PREM 49/2185 PDF, 7.1 MB
- PREM 49/2187 PDF, 15.0 MB
- PREM 49/2188 PDF, 28.1 MB
- PREM 49/2189 PDF, 12.0 MB
- PREM 49/2190 PDF, 103.3 MB
- PREM 49/2191 PDF, 80.7 MB
- PREM 49/2198 PDF, 7.4 MB
- PREM 49/2199 PDF, 10.5 MB
- PREM 49/2200 PDF, 89.8 MB
- PREM 49/2201 PDF, 11.6 MB
- PREM 49/2202 PDF, 2.7 MB
- PREM 49/2204 PDF, 121.2 MB
- PREM 49/2206 PDF, 2.5 MB
- PREM 49/2232 PDF, 2.3 MB
- PREM 49/2248 PDF, 201.2 MB
- PREM 49/2250 PDF, 60.0 MB
- PREM 49/2251 PDF, 51.7 MB
- PREM 49/2255 PDF, 18.6 MB
- PREM 49/2256 PDF, 14.9 MB
- PREM 49/2257 PDF, 116.7 MB
- PREM 49/2264 PDF, 108.0 MB
- PREM 49/2265 PDF, 32.5 MB
- PREM 49/2266 PDF, 8.0 MB
- PREM 49/2267 PDF, 3.8 MB
- PREM 49/2268 PDF, 20.7 MB
- PREM 49/2269 PDF, 3.4 MB
- PREM 49/2270 PDF, 34.2 MB
- PREM 49/2271 PDF, 48.8 MB
- PREM 49/2273 PDF, 20.1 MB
- PREM 49/2274 PDF, 33.0 MB
- PREM 49/2275 PDF, 49.8 MB
- PREM 49/2276 PDF, 27.1 MB
- PREM 49/2278 PDF, 7.2 MB
- PREM 49/2283 PDF, 57.0 MB
- PREM 49/2296 PDF, 84.3 MB
- PREM 49/2342 PDF, 150.3 MB
- PREM 49/2343 PDF, 2.7 MB
- PREM 49/2344 PDF, 19.1 MB
- PREM 49/2346 PDF, 10.2 MB
- PREM 49/2352 PDF, 151.2 MB
- PREM 49/2354 PDF, 101.4 MB
- PREM 49/2364 PDF, 21.6 MB
- PREM 49/2367 PDF, 20.5 MB
- PREM 49/2381 PDF, 133.4 MB
- PREM 49/2382 PDF, 127.7 MB
- PREM 49/2390 PDF, 63.9 MB
- PREM 49/2421 PDF, 60.1 MB
- PREM 49/2445 PDF, 128.2 MB
- PREM 49/2469-1 PDF, 170.1 MB
- PREM 49/2469-2 PDF, 255.1 MB
- PREM 49/2470 PDF, 111.9 MB
- PREM 49/2471 PDF, 128.8 MB
- PREM 49/2472-1 PDF, 129.5 MB
- PREM 49/2472-2 PDF, 94.0 MB
- PREM 49/2473 PDF, 157.1 MB
- PREM 49/2519-1 PDF, 241.9 MB
- PREM 49/2519-2 PDF, 151.3 MB
- PREM 49/2520 PDF, 285.1 MB
- PREM 49/2521 PDF, 124.3 MB
- PREM 49/2522 PDF, 178.1 MB
- PREM 49/2548 PDF, 158.3 MB
- PREM 49/2565 PDF, 83.5 MB
You can also find out more about previous file releases.
