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1979 Jul 23 - 1980 Jul 10
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Howe)

T639/15
Public spending (1979-80 - minutes from special advisers & Treasury ministers; meeting records; MTFS)

Document type: File list item
Source: HMTPO
Release date: 2012
Classification: Secret
Page count: 110
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80 Mar 4 Tue Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Medium Term Financial Strategy”) [minutes disagreement, copied to MT & Wass] [declassified 2013]
80 Jun 16 Mon Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (proposed 5 per cent cut in real public sector pay) [“we are - perhaps - dangerously moderate in our counter-inflation policy”] [declassified 2013]
80 Jun 16 Mon Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (‘Strategy’) [rejects Cropper proposal of 5 per cent real cut in public sector pay] [declassified 2013]
80 Jul 9 Wed Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Incomes, Inflation & Unemployment”) [“there really is not much difference in substance between us”] [declassified 2013]
80 Aug 11 Mon Economy: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Fentiman Dinner, 22 July") [points arising from discussion at dinner] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 9 Tue Economy: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("John Redwood on the Current Economic Situation") ["Master Redwood is making a mouthful of a perfectly straightforward point"] [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 19 Wed Economy: Wiggins minute to Unwin ("Economic Debate on 26/27 November") [Chancellor's thoughts for Autumn Statement Debate speech] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 19 Fri Economy: Bush minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stocktaking Note: Matter for Ministerial Attention") [issues likely to come up for ministerial attention in first quarter of 1981] [declassified 2012]