1981 Feb 18 - 1981 Jul 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/439
Economic policy (Budget) (Part 5)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2011 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 227 |
| Any docs withheld? | No |
PREM19/439 - download whole file (PDF, 56.11 MB)
Selections from this file
| Date |
Category |
Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("Indirect Tax Package") [twice revalorisation basis - tabulated] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [must auction them since appropriate price unknown] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [necessity of a tough budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: David Howell minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [criticises Treasury budget plans] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to Chancellor (lunch at Union Discount) [directors think a "really satisfactory" PSBR consistent with falling rates would be "about £7b"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters letter to Sir Douglas Wass (disappointment at budget measures) [budget proposals "too little and of the wrong kind"; maximum 1 per cent MLR cut] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("The Budget") [summary of final decisions] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Unwin minute to Wass ("The Budget & Deflation") [urgent request from No.10 for material rebutting deflation charge] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Lankester briefing for MT (recouping DERV concession) [meeting with Chancellor] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor meeting) [3p on cigarettes to recoup DERV concession] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor meeting) [MT unhappy at announcement of DERV recoupment on eve of Warrington by-election] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("Distributional Implications of the Budget") [tabulated] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [seeks agreement to announce in budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Company Taxation: Stock Relief") [detailed reform proposals] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [broad lines of budget changes] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget") [outline of budget decisions to date] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Season Tickets" [provided by employers]) [strongly defends proposed tax] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure & the Budget") [energy related overruns] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind: Free Petrol") [proposal; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (recouping DERV concession) [gambling, tobacco duties] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Bank Tax & DERV Duty Concessions") [minor concession to smaller banks; firming up on DERV] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [method; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers & officials) [decisions to freeze income tax & CTT thresholds, reducing PSBR by further £1b] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers) ["Road Fuel Duty & Energy Prices"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting on DERV concession) [modes of recouping 10p DERV cut] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [indirect tax package] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor & Wass) [MT 'dismayed' at £11.25b PSBR, but accepted Howe rejection of increased basic rate] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe reports decision to freeze thresholds & reduce PSBR below £11b] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor, Governor & Wass) [decision to reduce MLR by 2 per cent on budget day] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Policy & the Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Affairs" - Bank urges immediate MLR cut] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Howe (Sir Geoffrey) | Budget: Sir Geoffrey Howe Ministerial Broadcast ("The Budget") ["times are tough"] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Howe (Sir Geoffrey) | Budget: Radio Interview for BBC Jimmy Young Programme (Howe defends the budget) [balancing the books to get down interest rates] |