Budget

Title

Budget

Shelfmark

CRD 4/4/8-13

Summary

Comprises:

1. CRD 4/4/8 - 1978 Budget Preparations Committee minutes and papers, 1978;

2. CRD 4/4/9 - 1979 Budget Papers, 1979;

3. CRD 4/4/10 - 1980 Budget Papers, 1980;

4. CRD 4/4/11 - 1981 Budget: Proposals and discussion papers led by Anne Bulloch within the Economic Section of CRD under the direction of Alan Howarth, Director, for submission to the Chancellor, Geoffrey Howe, prior to the 1981 Budget, Nov 1980-Feb 1981. Correspondents include:

Baldwin, Barry

Bellairs, Charles

Britto, Keith

Bulloch, Anne

Clayton-Browne, Robbie

Howarth, Alan, Director, Conservative Research Department

Lilley, Peter

Mockler, Christopher

Norton, Richard

Rouse, Lynda

Vinson, Nigel, Centre for Policy Studies

Subjects covered:

Unemployment benefit for school-leavers

Removal of child benefit for the well-off

Mortgage relief

Reduction in Corporation Tax

Proposed excise tax on North Sea Oil profits

Classification of agricultural rent as 'unearned income'

Monetary Policy

Tax allowances for the blind

Small Businesses

Medium Term Financial Strategy

Papers include:

'Proposals for a Government-backed loan guarantee scheme to facilitate bank lending to smaller businesses', n.d. [Author not given]

'Potential North Sea tax revenues', n.d. [Author not given]

'1981 Budget Submisssions – First Discussion Paper', Anne Bulloch, 19 Dec 1980

'1981 Budget Submissions – Discussion Paper, Second Draft', Anne Bulloch, 14 Jan 1981

Transcript of speech, 'Thatcherism in Practice – A progress report', by Nigel Lawson MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, to the Zurich Society of Economics, 14Jan 1981

Conservative Research Department brief PEC(81)1 'Industrial Energy Prices – Question and Answer Brief', 14 Jan 1981 [Author: LMR/ST-R]

Report, 'Actions not words – A pre-Budget Memorandum to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Child Benefits', by Ruth Lister, Child Poverty Action Group, Jan 1981

Conservative Research Department report [21pp], 'Budget Submissions 1981', n.d. [Author: Anne Bulloch?]

Report, 'Ten Policy Questions about the Medium Term Financial Strategy', Peter Lilley, Conservative Research Department, 4 Feb 1981

5. CRD 4/4/12 - Budget Papers, 1982;

6. CRD 4/4/13 - Budget Papers, 1983.

Date

1978-1983

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)