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PREM19/1710
Economic policy (Prime Minister's bilaterals with the Chancellor of the Exchequer) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 180
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Employment, Industry, Monetary policy, Privatized & state industries, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Trade, European Union (general), European Union Budget, Economic, monetary & political union, European Union Single Market, Executive, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meetings, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes, MT's meetings as PM

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83 May 23 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [contingency reserve - "under severe pressure"; current economic indicators; fees for non-elected directors of Bank of England; civil service pay] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [future handling of public expenditure bilaterals; Lawson minute on longer-term public expenditure; future of NEDO; phasing out of £1 note and 1/2p coin] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 18 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure; Mansion House speech to place greater emphasis on monetary base rather than M1 as an indicator] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 25 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Public Expenditure Survey, national insurance contributions] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 2 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure including student grants; NIC; Ferdy Mount's policy White Paper proposal] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 9 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure; energy prices; NICs; Industry Act forecast; EC contribution; RSG] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 28 Mo Major Economic Policy: Policy Unit minute to MT (“The State of the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [public expenditure, EC budget, energy prices] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [electricity prices; EC budget after Athens; Bank Court; public expenditure, fiscal and monetary stance] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [electricity and coal prices; exchange rate and interest rates; Bank of England Court - "any nearer to finding someone to keep the Bank in line on monetary policy?"] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 21 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Treasury ministers' membership at Lloyds; review and simplification of tax; names for Court of the Bank of England; bank taxation] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 9 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Lord Cockfield's study of tax law; monetary targets, rapid growth in monetary aggregates; exchange rates, dollar strength; pay] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 17 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [tax and expenditure in the longer-term; budgetary prospects; privatisation review; competition policy] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 25 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Budget, competition policy, pay, currency, Treasury Ministers and Lloyds] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Cabinet, public expenditure] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 3 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [European Commission Presidency; public expenditure priorities; Wytch Farm; recent exchange rate movements, unitary tax] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 13 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, nurses’ pay, Director General of NEDC] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 27 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [EC budget, OECD candidature, the Review Bodies] [declassified 2014]
84 May 8 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [interest rates and the exchange rate, coal dispute, the future of NEDC] [declassified 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [securities regulation; world financial markets; domestic markets; Sleipner Gas] [declassified 2014]