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1984 Mar 15 - 1985 Mar 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1455
Economic policy (The Budget, 1984 and 1985) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 364
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85 Mar 8 Fri Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker (Budget issues affecting oil) [details of resolutions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 7 Thu Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confidential") [original title "Budget - Secret" scored out; "Selling this Budget is going to be difficult": proposed lines to take on public expenditure, income tax reform & pensions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 7 Thu Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Budget Proposals") [income tax; national insurance contributions; business taxation; tax reform; minor measures; total cost; PSBR] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 7 Thu Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Whitelaw ("Budget Presentation") [proposed lines to take for Lawson's Budget speech, on costs, to be borne by the public, attributable to Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 6 Wed Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Tom King PS ("Budget Day Press Notices") [request to Departments for confirmation of subject matter of any press notices they intend to release] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 6 Wed Economic Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("ITN - Levy") ["concerned lest there is any change in the Budget to the system by which they are financed"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 5 Tue Economic Policy: Chairman of the Tory Reform Group letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Budget and unemployment) [proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 4 Mon Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Confidential") [original title "Budget - Secret": meeting with Lawson to discuss Youth Training Scheme and National Insurance Contributions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 27 Wed Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Bond Washing") [explanation of bond washing and of the legal requirement, having decided to end it, to make an announcement immediately, in advance of Budget Statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tue Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (the Budget: indirect taxes) [proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 24 Sun Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) [US visit, social security reviews, 1985 Budget, tax reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fri Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confidential") [original title: "Budget Secret": Lawson proposals; Heseltine proposals; Policy Unit proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 21 Thu Economic Policy: Peter Walker letter to John Moore ("Confidential") [original title: "Budget Confidential": impact of 1985 Budget proposals on North Sea oil industry "short-sighted and potentially very damaging"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 21 Thu Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") ["all about us we see examples of waste and mismanagement"; examples of Departmental over-spending; proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 14 Thu Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker (1985 Budget: North Sea oil industry) [proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Budget and Economy") ["There is no alternative to holding the spending totals. And that means agreeing some reductions now"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confidential") [original title: "Budget - Secret": public expenditure control & cutting taxes on incomes] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Lawson proposals to raise spending figures] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Public Expenditure": overspend predicted; Lawson rules out making savings, and proposes revising total spend figures upwards] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Economic Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Tomorrow's Cabinet") ["macro-economic situation in advance of the Budget": lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014]