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1985 Dec 2 - 1986 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1707
Economic policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 15)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 448
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86 Apr 7 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Lawson described the two bids received for JMB; MT agreed Westpac bid should be accepted] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 7 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Department of Trade and Industry (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 8 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [report on enquiries into company’s involvement in gold fraud] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 8 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 29 Tu Minor Monetary Policy: UKE Bonn to FCO (“The Five Institutes’ Spring Report”) [summary extract] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“UK’s Relative Economic Performance”) [improvement since 1979] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT agreed "a further foreign currency borrowing" this year, ideally in recess] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Money and Interest Rates”) [Chancellor no longer wanting a cut this week] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 18 We Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Bank working on study of recent behaviour of monetary aggregates; MT urges debt conversion] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 24 Tu Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute covering Treasury paper (“Treasury Economic Forecast: June Exercise”) ["rather depressing … pay still the heart of our problems"] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 27 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Annual Report of the Bank for International Settlements”) [importance of US deficit stressed] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 8 Tu Trivial Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Compound Interest”) [neat way of calculating how long it takes for a sum to double at a given rate of interest - divide 69 by the rate] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 11 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [Norgrove urges delaying half point cut] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 22 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (current economic situation and prospects) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 24 Th Major Monetary Policy: Griffiths minute to MT (“Sterling M3”) [Greenwells Monetary Bulletin article on fast sterling M3 growth] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 14 Th Minor Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Ansbacher”) [enquiry report - no criminal offences from payment of interim dividend] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 20 We Minor Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Minister of State (“National Institute Economic Review: August 1986”) [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 1 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT approves foreign currency borrowing but fears adverse press] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 2 Tu Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“HMG Foreign Currency Borrowing”) [briefing for floating rate note issue the following day] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 25 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (covering “Foreign Exchange Markets: Evening Report”) ["there is a lot of market talk about the need for an increase in interest rates"] [declassified 2014]