Letter - Giving Effect [New Secretaries of State] [1986-01-10]
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Title
Letter - Giving Effect [New Secretaries of State] [1986-01-10]
Subject
Ministerial Appointments
Description
Letter from Nigel Wicks to Geoffrey de Deney stating that Queen Elizabeth II had approved the appointments of George Younger and Malcolm Rifkind as Secretaries of State for Defence and Scotland and asking de Deney to give effect to the Queen's commands.
Creator
Nigel Wicks (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister)
Source
PREM 5/606/1
Date
1986-01-10
Contributor
Jason Loch
Letter Item Type Metadata
Transcript
10 January 1986
Sir,
The Queen having been pleased to approve that the Right Honourable George Kenneth Hotson Younger, TD, DL, MP be appointed Secretary of State for Defence and that Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, Esquire, MP, be appointed Secretary of State for Scotland: the Prime Minister has requested that the necessary steps may be taken to give effect to Her Majesty’s commands.
Yours truly,
(Sgd.) NW
(Nigel Wicks)
The Clerk of the Council,
Privy Council Office,
Signatures
Nigel Wicks (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister)
Recipient(s)
Geoffrey de Deney (Clerk of the Privy Council)
Ornamentation
Document is typewritten.
Special Features
Correction fluid has been used on part of George Younger's name.
Files
Citation
Nigel Wicks (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister), “Letter - Giving Effect [New Secretaries of State] [1986-01-10],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/189.