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Public spending: Mount-Walters minute for MT (“The Public Expenditure Debate”) [“If we fail, the shape of the future is horrifyingly clear in the Treasury’s study of Public Expenditure in the longer-term”] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/717 f122
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Public spending & borrowing