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PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Additional Revenue from the Banks") [no alternative now to a tax on windfall profits] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Sir Robin Ibbs minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") [urges consideration of exchange rate target to reduce level of sterling] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (MT lunch with Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [credit cards, windfall tax, etc] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT (Budget) [urges tougher than expected PSBR to ease funding, interest rates & exchange rate] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Policy & the Budget"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Some Outside Views") [views of Griffiths, Pepper, Rose, Budd and Samuel Brittan on budget] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Jim Prior letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") ["I am glad to add my voice to Keith's"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Budget discussion - no decisions] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Alan Walters minutes to MT (Budget) [danger of underestimating PSBR; "Budget & Monetary Policy"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [opposes cut before budget] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) [stock relief scheme] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (" very good" budget meeting with MT) [case for 'overkill']
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("The Budget") [competing Treasury and No.10 versions] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Affairs" - Bank urges immediate MLR cut] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (PM, Chancellor, Governor's meeting) [decision not to cut MLR immediately] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [strongly opposes cut before budget] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Paul Volcker, chairman Federal Reserve) [prospects of the Reagan Administration; monetary control, etc] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (private health insurance) [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget meeting forgotten by MT) [secret army of advisers working to make it happen]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft cabinet paper ("1981 Public Expenditure Survey") [move to cash planning] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [danger of Treasury 'underkill'] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("VAT on Imports") [strongly opposes] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor (interest rates & the exchange rate) [difficulty of bringing exchange rate into the reckoning] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of England draft announcement (decision to reduce the Minimum Lending Rate) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: HMT minute to Peretz and Lawson ("Intervention in January 1981") [Bank of England's intervention tactics] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Niehans seminar on sterling)
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute for MT (briefing for meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Lankester thinks £10 PSBR maximum consistent with falling interest rates] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Howe thinks PSBR below £11b not "politically possible"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury minute (Chancellor meeting with senior officials) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Couzens minute for Chancellor ("The Exchange Rate: Ministerial Briefing") [wary of Howe circulating a paper to colleagues on sterling] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (interest rate & the exchange rate) [gear interest rates to M0 without explicit link to exchange rate] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Budget: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England-John Wiggins) [bank levy] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget discussion) [MT & Howe rejecting draconian budget as "not on politically"]
PDF 81 Feb 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Wiggins minute for Middleton ("Monetary Targets & Monetary Control") [suggestions following Friday evening meeting] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [freeze personal allowances so as to ease monetary policy] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute for MT (briefing for meeting with Chancellor) [budget strategy "more or less agreed"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [response to Wass working group] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Couzens minute for Chancellor ("Measures to reduce the exchange rate") [inflow controls examined at Howe's request; intervention in foreign exchange markets] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Implications of lower interest rates for the forecast") ["less gloomy" than officials] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Middleton minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [analysis of his report] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe now wants to raise basic rate in order to increase allowances; MT agrees] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor minute for Lawson ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [Wass group a "post-mortem on a patient who ought to be dead but isn't!"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury minute for No.10 ("Interest Rates") [for MT's meeting tomorrow] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [Middleton critique “wholly valid”] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (MT cancels budget meeting) [spent evening "discussing how to bring her to her senses"]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [seeks agreement to announce in budget] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Company Taxation: Stock Relief") [detailed reform proposals] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor-Governor meeting) [decision not to cut MLR before budget] [declassified 2011]

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