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Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1983 Budget speech: uprating of pensions and other social security benefits”) [“The system of trying to forecast inflation, introduced in 1976, is a fragile basis for calculations”] [declassified 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/0997 f81
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Parliament, Economic policy - theory and process, Employment, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Family, Labour Party & socialism, Social security & welfare