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Public spending: Cabinet Secretary minute for MT (“Public Expenditure in the Longer Term”) [“The Prime Minister is in agreement with… the Chancellor’s minute”] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/717 f178
Editorial comments: Covering note by Michael Scholar, Private Secretary responsible for economics at No.10, precedes the main item. See also other relevant documents. The Prime Minister s response to HMT proposals succeeds the main item. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here. Read other documents selected from this file.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Public spending & borrowing