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1989 Sep 5 - 1990 Apr 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2943
Economic Policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 21)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 441
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89 Oct 4 We Major Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Interest Rates and Recession") [caught out by market expections of a Pavlovian reaction to the Dmark rate ... "a Greek tragedy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 11 We Major Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Interest Rates and Recession") [interest rates at 15 percent would lead to sharp recession] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Nov 1 We Major Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Resignation of Mr Lawson") [market reaction seeing resignation as a boon] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 18 Mo Major Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Sir Alan Walters' Book") [flexible versus fixed exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 20 Fr Major Economic Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Balance of Payments") [large March deficit] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 19 Th Major Economic Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Balance of Payments") [March deficit figure second worst on record] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 12 Th Major Economic Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT (RPI, unemployment figures) [exchange markets largely unaffected] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 12 Tu Major Economic Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Monetary Conditions") [no reason for pressing higher interest rates] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 12 Tu Major Economic Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Balance of Payments Figures: Third Quarter 1989") [disappointing invisibles surplus] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr Major Economic Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: March 1990") [monetary indicators out of kilter with those for the real economy] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 20 Fr Major Economic Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Provisional Money Figures - March 1990") [Bank of England publication] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 16 Mo Major Economic Policy: Charles Powell telegram to Paul Gray (markets) [MT "very anxious" for report of stock market reaction following opening of Wall Street] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jan 26 Fr Major Economic Policy: Colin Moynihan minute to David Waddington ("Major Lotteries") [deferring a firm decision on allowing major lotteries] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 21 Th Major Economic Policy: David Waddington minute to Geoffrey Howe ("1. Paper on the Introduction of a Major Lottery or Lotteries. 2. 'Skill-Ball' Competition") [deferring a firm decision on allowing major lotteries] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 28 We Major Economic Policy: David Waddington minute to Richard Ryder (Jack Committee) [government response; money laundering] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 24 Tu Major Economic Policy: Dominic Morris minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Market Reaction to Trade Figures") [pound holding] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 16 Fr Major Economic Policy: Eric Forth minute to Richard Ryder ("Jack Committee on Banking Services Law and Practice: Proposed Government Response") [happy with the White Paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 5 Mo Minor Economic Policy: Geoffrey Howe minute to David Waddington ("Major Lottery or Lotteries and 'Skill-Ball' Competition") [deferring a firm decision] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 17 Tu Minor Economic Policy: Geoffrey Howe minute to David Waddington ("Ten Minute Rule Bill for Wednesday 18 April 1990") [national lotteries] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 11 We Major Economic policy: Gray minute for MT ("Economic policy over the next year") [valedictory thoughts - what went wrong; where are we now; where do we go from here] [declassified Dec 2016]