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Government machinery: Tebbit letter to Walker ("Proposed Merger of Family Expenditure Survey and National Food Survey") ["My main concern... is that confidence in the retail prices index must not be jeopardised... Accordingly I do not propose to authorise the merger"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1248 f69
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 24pp
Themes: Social security & welfare, Family, Economic policy - theory and process, Employment, Industry, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, Executive, British relations with France, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the US, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes