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Public spending: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines”) [Gregson comment on Brittan paper] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/717 f331
Editorial comments: Paper by Leon Brittan follows the Peter Gregson minute. Critical annotations to the Leon Brittan paper are by Michael Scholar, Private Secretary responsible for economics at No.10. Relevant supporting documents follow the main item.The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here. Read other documents selected from this file.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 17pp
Themes: Defence (general), Economic policy - theory and process, Public spending & borrowing, Local government finance