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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
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 315
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84 Jun 29 Fri Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Building Societies Green Paper") [key proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Thu 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 Tue 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 Mon 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 Wed 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 Thu 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 Wed Housing: No.10 letter to Treasury (Building Society lending rates) [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 10 Tue 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 Fri Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Composite Rate: Building Societies"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jun 19 Thu 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 Thu 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 Mon Housing: Chancellor of the Exchquer PS letter to No.10 ("Mortgage Subsidies") [Howe objections to proposed scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Feb 18 Mon 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 Wed Housing: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (mortgage interest rates) [defence of policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Nov 27 Tue 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 Fri Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer & Heseltine joint minute to MT ("The Mortgage Rate") [increase inevitable] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Oct 4 Thu Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [mortgage rate increase - small prospect of avoiding increase in January] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Oct 3 Wed 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 30 Mon Housing: MT letter to Biffen (Sixth European Congress of Building Societies, London, 24 September 1979) [Biffen to attend on MT's behalf] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 16 Mon Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leonard Williams) [BSA Council decision to limit mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014]