1982 Feb 1 - 1983 Oct 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/998
Economic policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 10)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 272 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Apr 26 Tu | Major | Monetary Policy: Treasury paper for No.10 (“Sterling and the Election Approach”) ["political" risks between now & election, plus options if downward pressure develops] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jul 26 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: Walter Goldsmith letter to MT (The Institute of Directors’s press release on Government’s reflation policy) [business against reflation] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 26 Tu | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters briefing for MT (“Visit of Karl Brunner: 27 April 1983”) [banks and debts, investment markets, US monetary policy] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 13 We | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Conversion of the National Debt”) [tentative step towards] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 18 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Conversion”) [Bank's successful conversion operations] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 21 Th | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Interest Rates”) [conversion success; be careful about reducing rates] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jul 19 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Interest Rates”) [half point cut soon, resist temptation to overfund] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jun 17 Th | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and the Monetary Aggregates”) [new strategy agreed yesterday - not to overfund; "a great step forward"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 20 We | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding”) [Bank plan to increase funding in coming months by introducing "index link to convertible stock"] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jul 21 We | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding”) [new taps, national saving certificates] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 14 Tu | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates and Monetary Policy”) [look for further rate cuts when opportunity offers] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Feb 28 Su | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates and Money Supply”) [watching closely] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jul 6 Tu | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) ['imperative' to continue reducing rates; tightness of money, high effective exchange rate] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jun 15 Tu | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [further half point cut agreed between Treasury & Bank] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 10 Fr | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [half percent cut on Tuesday, but will not prevent eventual rise in mortgage rates] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 26 Tu | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [market pressure for a reduction; yield reluctantly] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 11 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [room for further rate cut of half or one percent, though it will reinforce perceptions that HMG has exchange rate target] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 29 Fr | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Aggregates: Provisional Figures”) [October figures high but consistent with policy] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 31 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Policy and Interest Rates”) ["a risk of undue monetary stringency in the coming months"; look for ways to bring rates down] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 10 Th | Major | Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Policy and Interest Rates”) [market expecting some reduction in interest rates in weeks ahead] [declassified 2013] |