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PREM19/2099
Economic Policy (Prime Minister's bilaterals with the Chancellor of the Exchequer) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 246
Any docs withheld? 1
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Employment, Industry, Monetary policy, Privatized & state industries, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Trade, Energy, European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union, Executive, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meetings, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes, MT's meetings as PM

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86 Nov 3 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor of the Exchequer") ["[his] objectives are to reassure the markets and avoid tying his hands for the Budget. Your objectives are to reassure the markets and to tie the Chancellor's hands so far as possible to a very prudent PSBR"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Nov 12 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [reaction to the Autumn Statement; the markets; Daily Telegraph leak] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Nov 17 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets; the City: "further scandals unavoidable"; teachers' pay; "prospects for a more buoyant economy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Nov 25 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/interest rates; Space programme; Cardiff & the Docklands; IMF Managing Director] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Dec 2 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets; Managing Director of IMF; Peter Walker/Sizewell decision; Bank of England directors; IMF: UK economy; dual resident companies ] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Dec 15 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/interest rates: MT concerns] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jan 9 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (Dinner with the Chancellor) [Lawson invites MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jan 14 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/weakness of the dollar] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jan 20 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Guinness; the markets; Economic Cabinet; public spending] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jan 29 Th Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets & G5; Economic Cabinet] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jan 30 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Dinner with the Chancellor") [advice on managing inflation in run-up to Election, and on Lawson's Budget tax cut proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Feb 3 Tu Minor Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral") [Budget] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Feb 11 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Banking Bill; G5] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Feb 17 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [G5; Airbus; competition policy; Post Office & British Steel privatisation] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Feb 24 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/interest rates/intervention; G5/exchange rate management/Italy; Budget proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Mar 3 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets & intervention; G5/G7; coal & electricity privatisation] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Mar 17 Tu Minor Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (Bilateral meeting with the Chancellor) [proposed agenda] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Mar 24 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [interest rates; research councils; Lignite power station for Northern Ireland] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Apr 2 Th Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [Type 23 frigates for Pakistan; public expenditure; EC R&D] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Apr 3 Fr Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [interest rates; G5/G6/G10 & interim committee meetings; sub-Saharan debt initiative] [declassified Jul 2016]