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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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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]
79 Jun 5 Tu Major Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Building Societies") [draft MT minute for Heseltine] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 May 22 Tu Major Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Building Societies") [draft No.10 minute for Howe PS: tackling Building Society Association 'cartel'] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 29 Fr Major Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Mortgage rates") [contingency plans for rise: options paper] [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]
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 Jun 29 Fr Major Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Building Societies Green Paper") [key proposals] [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]
79 Jun 25 Mo Major Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Rate") [strategy to address rise in rates] [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]
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]
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]
79 Jul 13 Fr Major Housing: Heseltine minute to MT ("House Purchase Finance Review Group") [remit; membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 3 Tu Major Housing: Heseltine minute to MT (Building Society mortgage rates) ["if we are faced with the choice of higher interest rates or Government assistance we should not intervene"] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 9 Mo Major Housing: Heseltine record of conversation ("Building Society Mortgage Rates") [Heseltine, Lawson, John Stanley, Leonard Williams] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 30 Mo Minor 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]
80 Feb 13 We Major Housing: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (mortgage interest rates) [defence of policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
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]
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]