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1979 Oct 17 - 1983 Feb 2
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1002
Economic policy (Prime Minister's meetings with clearing bank chairmen)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 84
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Date Value Title
79 Oct 17 We Major Economic Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("Lunch with the Clearing Bankers") [monetary control; tackling inflation; role of banks in control of pay settlements; lending policies; interest rates; bank profits & customer charges] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Sep 29 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (meeting with the Committee of London Clearing Bankers, February 1981) [arrangements following MT request for resumption of meetings] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jan 29 Th Major Economic Policy: Treasury briefing for MT (MT, Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [windfall tax on banks; lending & debt; Bank of England's role in relation to companies facing financial difficulties; changes in monetary control; endowment profits] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [MT concerns about lending & debt; "short-term prospects for industry, recent monetary developments, monetary control... windfall tax proposal" & Sir Jeremy Morse paper presenting "The Arguments Against a Special Tax on Bank Profits"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 1 Tu Major Economic Policy: Treasury briefing for MT (meeting with Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [interest rates; provision for bad debts; taxation on the banks; pay negotiations] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 2 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [interest rates; overdrafts/debt; pay levels in the banking sector] [declassified Aug 2013]