Archive

1979 Jul 23 - 1980 Jul 10
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Howe)

T639/15
Public spending (1979-80 - minutes from special advisers & Treasury ministers; meeting records; MTFS)

Source: HMTPO
Release date: 2012
Classification: Secret
Page count: 110
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Date Value Title
80 Mar 4 Tu Key Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Medium Term Financial Strategy”) [minutes disagreement, copied to MT & Wass] [declassified 2013]
80 Jun 16 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (proposed 5 per cent cut in real public sector pay) [“we are - perhaps - dangerously moderate in our counter-inflation policy”] [declassified 2013]
80 Jun 16 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (‘Strategy’) [rejects Cropper proposal of 5 per cent real cut in public sector pay] [declassified 2013]
80 Jul 9 We Key Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Incomes, Inflation & Unemployment”) [“there really is not much difference in substance between us”] [declassified 2013]