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Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["As you will have seen from the record of the meeting [with St John Stevas and Joel Barnett] I told them that the Bill's proposals on the scope of the audit were unacceptable... The problem now is where we go from there"] [declassified Aug 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1044 f63
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Media, Executive, Parliament, Conservative Party (organization), Labour Party & socialism, Liberal & Social Democratic Parties, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes