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1979 May 22 - 1984 Jun 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1269
Housing (Organisation and structure of building societies; mortgage rates; review of house purchase finance) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 315
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79 May 22 Tu Major Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Building Societies") [draft No.10 minute for Howe PS: tackling Building Society Association 'cartel'] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 5 Tu Major Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Building Societies") [draft MT minute for Heseltine] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 6 We Major Housing: No.10 letter to Heseltine PS ("Building Societies") [MT requests review to devise strategies for increasing home ownership] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 24 Su Key Housing: MT note for Chancellor of the Exchequer (mortgage rate) [MT concerned at press reports mortgage rates may go up in a few days; "This MUST NOT happen"] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 24 Su Major Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Jopling) ["MPs' Pay"; mortgage rate] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 25 Mo Major Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Rate") [strategy to address rise in rates] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 26 Tu Major Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Soames, Prior, St. John-Stevas, Jopling) [MPs' pay; mortgages] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 29 Fr Major Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Mortgage rates") [contingency plans for rise: options paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 3 Tu Major Housing: Heseltine minute to MT (Building Society mortgage rates) ["if we are faced with the choice of higher interest rates or Government assistance we should not intervene"] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 4 We Major Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Heseltine, Lawson, Gordon Richardson, Douglas Wass, John Hunt) [Building Society mortgage rates] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 4 We Major Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gordon Pepper) [MT concern at possible increase in mortgage rates] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 9 Mo Major Housing: Heseltine record of conversation ("Building Society Mortgage Rates") [Heseltine, Lawson, John Stanley, Leonard Williams] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 13 Fr Major Housing: No.10 minute to MT (mortage rates) [Building Societies Council decision to defer increase until January] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 13 Fr Major Housing: Heseltine minute to MT ("House Purchase Finance Review Group") [remit; membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 16 Mo Major Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leonard Williams) [BSA Council decision to limit mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jul 30 Mo Minor Housing: MT letter to Biffen (Sixth European Congress of Building Societies, London, 24 September 1979) [Biffen to attend on MT's behalf] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Oct 3 We Major Housing: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor - Thursday 4 October") [IMF/World Bank meetings: SDRS; NEDC membership; Enterprise Zones; exchange control; mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Oct 4 Th Major Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [mortgage rate increase - small prospect of avoiding increase in January] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Oct 26 Fr Major Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer & Heseltine joint minute to MT ("The Mortgage Rate") [increase inevitable] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Nov 27 Tu Major Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Tax Relief for Increased Mortgage Interest Payments") [PAYE codings; press release] [declassified Jan 2014]