Archive

1979 Nov 2 - 1979 Nov 15
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Howe)

T639/12
Monetary policy ("Gilt Strike", Nov 1979) Part A

Document type: File list item
Source: HMTPO
Release date: 2012
Classification: Personal & Secret
Page count: 339
Any docs withheld? No

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79 Nov 5 Mon Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Monetary Prospect”) [October monetary figures “worse than disappointing”] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 7 Wed Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Monetary Developments”) [“as bleak as when we talked on Monday”] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 7 Wed Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) ("Monetary Situation") [Howe's approval sought before circulation] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 7 Wed Monetary policy: Adam Ridley note to Chancellor ("Further Views" [on gilt strike]) [Goodhart & gilt-dealer's views] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 7 Wed Monetary policy: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor ("Conversation with Pepper") [gilt strike - MLR hike might not work] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [MLR increase debated, not agreed; urgent need to find new methods of controlling credit creation] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 8 Thu Monetary policy: Note to Chancellor ("Pepper again") [rumour that MT had been holding down MLR; critical of Bank of England] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [Chancellor’s copy, as circulated in HMT] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Monetary policy: Hall minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") [MT "profoundly unhappy"; interest rates not working, new mechanisms needed] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Economic policy: Lawson minute to Biffen ("Public Expenditure 1981-82 - 1983-84: C(79)54") [bad outcome to spending round] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Economic policy: Bailey minute to Lawson ("Public Expenditure - Later Years") [rebuttal] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Economic policy: Rawlinson minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure Proposals for 1981-82 to 1982-83") [further cuts needed to achieve tax & interest rate objectives] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Monetary policy: Bridgeman minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") ["rapid first draft" paper for MT] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 8 Thu Monetary policy: Howe note to Private Secretary (further thoughts on last night’s meeting with Governor) [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 9 Fri Monetary policy: Battishill minute to Howe ("Monetary Measures") [briefing for discussion with Governor] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 9 Fri Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Monetary Measures") [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 9 Fri Monetary policy: Howe minute to MT and Treasury note on lending ("Alternative Methods of Direct Control Over Bank Lending") [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 9 Fri Monetary policy: Ridley minute to Howe ("Griffiths, Burns, Rose and Flemming") [notes on conversations] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 9 Fri Monetary policy: Minute to MT on Ridley conversations [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 9 Fri Monetary policy: Ridley minute to Howe and summary of key points from interviews [declassified 2013]