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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 28 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Sir Peter Middleton NIESR lecture ("Economic Policy Formulation in the Treasury in the Post-War Period") [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Aug 17 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Provisional Money Figures - July 1989") [first figures since Abbey National converted to a bank] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 May 12 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Foreign Secretary PS to Lawson PS ("Guinness Mahon") [Japanese bid for the merchant bank cleared by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jun 29 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Treasury Economic Forecast") [economic growth, monetary policy, inflation] [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 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 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]
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 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 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]
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 11 Fr Minor Monetary Policy: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Douglas Hurd ("Increases in Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [content for the same increases to apply in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jan 17 Tu Minor Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray (total tax burden) [reasons for rise in tax burden] [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 Mar 15 We Minor Monetary Policy: Paul Gray note to MT (meeting with Walters) [briefing; meeting cancelled] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Mar 21 Tu Minor Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Provisional Money Figures - February 1989") [little significance should be read into declining NIBM1] [declassified Dec 2016]