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1988 Jul 1 - 1988 Oct 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2087
Economic Policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 19)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 383
Any docs withheld? 1

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88 Oct 28 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury economic forecast") ["internal forecast makes depressing reading... you may want to... stress your concerns"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 10 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury monthly monetary assessment") ["not good news for inflation prospects"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 25 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Evening Market Report) ["the 1% rise seems to have done the trick in holding the pound steady despite the trade figures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 25 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (markets) [1 per cent interest rate rise holding pound steady; Lawson spreading reassurance, Kinnock on news sounded more like "sour grapes"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 22 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Paul Gray) [Lawson distressed that his IEA speech was being interpreted as a "declaration of independence"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 4 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [decision to raise interest rates by one half per cent, MT wanting full one percent] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 16 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Provisional money figures - August") [line to take for press release] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 15 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Grice ("M0 Figures") [Grice notes figures show no evidence of economy slowing, but Bank thinks postal dispute has distorted them] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 11 Su Major Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 ("The ERM, CBE, and 1990/92") ["inside view of the Commission from a supporter of... [MT] and her policies"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 17 Sa Major Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 (CBI survey of UK Monetary Policy) [copy of his letter to CBI Director-General pointing out "serious errors of fact, analysis and interpretation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 17 We Major Monetary Policy: Walters note for Gray ("A Central Bank for Europe") ["on my visits to No.10, I fear that I may have left the wrong impression of my thinking"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 10 We Major Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (articles Walters has sent him) ["most helpful" to see them; danger of his Johns Hopkins lectures being infitrated by the press] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 20 We Major Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (follow-up to phone conversations) ["if you are to return here, you must refrain from all public comment which could have, or be interpreted as having, any bearing on British economic policy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 24 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (IEA/Cato Conference) [glad he so readily agreed to pull out of speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 5 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Bearpark (Alan Walters's articles) [these seem ok, send to Treasury; Alan's lecture series in the autumn "gives me the colly-wobbles"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 27 We Major Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters article for National Interest) [phoned him urging withdrawal from publication as reviving recent 'embarrassment'; Walters readily agreed] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 28 Th Key Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 18 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for MT ("Sir Alan Walters") [Walters comments in the press; Lawson saying he could not work with Walters if he were to return] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 15 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Robin Butler ("Sir Alan Walters") [comments in his press article annoyed Lawson; Walters agrees to clear further statements with Wicks] [declassified Jul 2016]