1979 May 22 - 1984 Jun 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1269
Housing (Organisation and structure of building societies; mortgage rates; review of house purchase finance) (Part 1)
Document type: | File list item |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
Classification: | Secret |
Page count: | 315 |
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Date | Value | Title |
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79 Jun 24 Su | Key | Housing: MT note for Chancellor of the Exchequer (mortgage rate) [MT concerned at press reports mortgage rates may go up in a few days; "This MUST NOT happen"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
84 Jun 29 Fr | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Building Societies Green Paper") [key proposals] [declassified Jan 2014] |
84 Jun 21 Th | Major | Housing: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Building Societies Green Paper") ["I have strong reservations about the paternalism inherent in the approach the Green Paper adopts"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
84 Feb 28 Tu | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Chairman of the Building Societies Association (taxation of profits on gilts) [consultation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
84 Feb 27 Mo | Major | Housing: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Building Societies: taxation of profits on gilts) [lines to take in defence of policy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
84 Jan 11 We | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("New Cross Building Society") [background to case; White Paper; line to take in Parliament/with press] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Dec 22 Th | Major | Housing: No.10 minute to MT (Agreement between the Building Societies Association and the National House Building Council: exemption from Restrictive Trade Practices Act) [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Jun 15 We | Major | Housing: No.10 letter to Treasury (Building Society lending rates) [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 May 10 Tu | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Building Societies") [outline of "issues with which... [new] legislation will need to deal"; Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
80 Jun 20 Fr | Major | Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Composite Rate: Building Societies"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
80 Jun 19 Th | Major | Housing: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor, 1230 pm Friday 20 June") [money supply & public expenditure; composite rate for Building Societies] [declassified Jan 2014] |
80 Jun 19 Th | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchquer minute to MT ("Building Societies: the Composite Rate") [proposed restriction on increase of rate] [declassified Jan 2014] |
80 Mar 10 Mo | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchquer PS letter to No.10 ("Mortgage Subsidies") [Howe objections to proposed scheme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
80 Feb 18 Mo | Major | Housing: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchquer PS (relieving the pressure on mortgage rates) [proposal for financial institutions to pay interest on borrowed money in order to lend tax free to members] [declassified Jan 2014] |
80 Feb 13 We | Major | Housing: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (mortgage interest rates) [defence of policy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
79 Nov 27 Tu | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Tax Relief for Increased Mortgage Interest Payments") [PAYE codings; press release] [declassified Jan 2014] |
79 Oct 26 Fr | Major | Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer & Heseltine joint minute to MT ("The Mortgage Rate") [increase inevitable] [declassified Jan 2014] |
79 Oct 4 Th | Major | Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [mortgage rate increase - small prospect of avoiding increase in January] [declassified Jan 2014] |
79 Oct 3 We | Major | Housing: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor - Thursday 4 October") [IMF/World Bank meetings: SDRS; NEDC membership; Enterprise Zones; exchange control; mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014] |
79 Jul 16 Mo | Major | Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leonard Williams) [BSA Council decision to limit mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014] |