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1988 Nov 4 - 1989 Aug 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2630
Economic Policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 20)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 319
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88 Nov 11 Fr Minor Monetary Policy: Nicholas Ridley minute to Douglas Hurd (Monetary Limits on Lotteries) [content with proposal] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 25 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("An Independent Central Bank") ["the most radical proposal to come from the Treasury during your time in Government"] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 11 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks record of conversation (Wicks, Alan Walters) [Walters's contract; economic conditions; CGT; US economic policy] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Aug 21 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [difficult trade figures; Lawson "felt that the markets would react very badly", but hoped to avoid further interest rate rise] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jun 23 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [lack of progress in reducing rate of inflation - MT asks for Treasury assessment] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 May 24 We Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [agreed 1 per cent increase in interest rates at 0945] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Dec 6 Tu Key Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT refuses to consider an independent Central Bank until inflation reduced to "a very low level" and kept there, perhaps in four years] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jul 5 We Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Middleton-Burns-Griffiths) [economic performance and prospects - Treasury papers on the recent rise in inflation and economic forecast] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 May 19 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Turnbull) [MT had no intention of criticising Lawson directly; line agreed for the press] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 May 20 Sa Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson calls re: press reports of MT's comments on pick-up in inflation and shadowing the DM; press handling] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jul 6 Th Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Alan Walters ("Economic Performance and Prospects") [asks for him to prepare note on sterilisation of 1987-88 intervention; what did the damage, intervention or interest rates?] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jun 5 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Alan Walters ("Funding Policy/Inflation") [reports of a change in policy; work on failure to reduce further rate of inflation] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jun 12 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Chancellor's 'On the Record' Interview and Appearance Before the TCSC") [ERM membership the focus at TCSC] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 4 Fr Minor Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Economic Statistics Next Week") [relatively thin week for statistics - M0 figures moving in the right direction], but "a very long way to go" [declassified Dec 2016]
89 May 15 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Evening Report") [strength of sterling in light of the budget] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Dec 13 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("HM Treasury's Monthly Monetary Assessment") [contradictory evidence on consumer spending; housing market has slowed down, but not M0 on annual basis] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jul 14 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Intervention, Sterilisation and Funding") [Walters accepts intervention WAS sterilised; real problem was that interest rates were kept too low in order to keep sterling at DM3] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 May 23 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Latest RPI Forecast") [another upward revision] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 20 Th Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Market Report") [markets were in "a slightly rocky mood this afternoon"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jun 22 Th Major Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Markets") [Sterling under serious pressure, no particular factor] [declassified Dec 2016]