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1985 May 10 - 1985 Jun 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1457
Economic policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 394
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85 May 14 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“JMB”) [Johnson Matthey Bankers: capital reorganisation] [declassified 2014]
85 May 16 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: March-June”) [declassified 2014]
85 May 27 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (the latest Monetary Bulletin: “extremely critical of current system of monetary control”) [declassified 2014]
85 May 29 We Major Monetary Policy: Treasury Press Office statement (“Disclosure of Tax Decisions Affecting Government Securities”) [declassified 2014]
85 May 30 Th Major Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Money Policy and the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
85 May 30 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [the Bank’s decision to sue for damages JMB’s auditors] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 4 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Control”) [“monetary policy is not too loose”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 5 We Key Monetary Policy: MT letter to Walters (inflation and monetary control) [MT: “I am very worried about M3, the Bill mountain, the rate of inflation and rising property prices”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 6 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Review of Banking Supervision and Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [attaches report, largely agrees; doubts full-scale rescue needed] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Stewart-Middleton-George-Walters) [monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fr Minor Monetary Policy: Press Office minute to Walters (“Interview with Channel 4 TV”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tu Major Monetary Policy: David Willetts minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey”) [handling the problem in the House of Commons] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 12 We Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [the review of banking supervision and Johnson Matthey Bankers] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 13 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: May-August”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 14 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths memo for MT (“UK Monetary Policy and Techniques of Monetary Control”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 14 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Monetary Policy”) [advice from Gordon Pepper steer economy by reference to money GDP & exchange rate] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 18 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (funding meeting assessment) [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 20 Th Major Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey”) [Chancellor’s statement] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 20 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Paper on Monetary Policy”) [briefing for MT: inflation, monetary control, international money markets] [declassified 2014]