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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/438
Economic policy (Budget) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 244
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81 Feb 12 Th Major Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [danger of Treasury 'underkill'] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 12 Th Major Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("VAT on Imports") [strongly opposes] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr Major Budget: No.10 minute for MT (briefing for meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Lankester thinks £10 PSBR maximum consistent with falling interest rates] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr Key Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Howe thinks PSBR below £11b not "politically possible"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo Major Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [freeze personal allowances so as to ease monetary policy] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo Major Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo Major Budget: No.10 minute for MT (briefing for meeting with Chancellor) [budget strategy "more or less agreed"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 17 Tu Key Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe now wants to raise basic rate in order to increase allowances; MT agrees] [declassified 2011]