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1984 Mar 15 - 1985 Dec 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1705
Economic policy (Economic strategy: pay and prices; economic statistics) (Part 26)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 385
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85 May 30 Thu Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Employment Effects of Increases in Infrastructure Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 5 Wed Economic policy: DTI Press Office minute (“Draft PPI Press Notice for May”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 10 Mon Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings: Inter-Linked Issues”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 2 Tue Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (briefing for MT: papers for the Cabinet discussion of public expenditure) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 10 Wed Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (“State of the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 15 Mon Economic policy: Lawson minute for Pym (“The Cost of Unemployment”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 18 Thu Economic policy: Treasury minute to Ingham (“Ministerial Group on the Presentation of Economic and Social Policy: the Government&rsquo:s Public Expenditure Record”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 23 Tue Economic policy: Pym letter for Lawson (economic situation and employment issues) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 25 Thu Economic policy: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Economic Performance 1985”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 26 Fri Economic policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (“end of term” message on current economic situation) [“steady expansion”] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 1 Thu Economic policy: Nicholas Winterton MP letter for Lawson (economic and employment situation in the UK) [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 20 Tue Economic policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor (“National Institute Economic Review for August”) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mon Economic policy: No.10 note for MT (presentation of macro-economic policy) [“unhelpful article” in FT shows why Chancellor concerned] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 29 Tue Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“National Savings: Indexed-Income Bond”) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 5 Tue Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters) [Walters: "thought policy was if anything a little tight, rather than loose"] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 6 Fri Economic policy: Walters minute for No.10 (present fiscal and monetary conditions) [markets see fiscal policy as “suspiciously loose”; monetary conditions “clearly rather tight”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 13 Fri Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Dinner on Sunday”) [briefing from Norgrove & Griffiths] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 16 Mon Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014]