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Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/167-173
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary] "and others concerned" on: the possibility of shortening the occupation of Germany if Germany makes improvements in payment of reparations; the economic impact of the early return of troops; disarmament and the need for France to retain a strong army to uphold the Locarno treaty; repayment of United States debt and the need to pass on costs to Germany; the need for the Treasury to adopt am attitude of "extreme reserve...
Dates: 14 Sep 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes.
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/176-177
Scope and Contents Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] and Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury] asking why he had not been consulted about spending £300,000 a year on improving the appearance of the bank note, which he views as an injustfiable extravagance contrary to the policy of reducing expenditure. He informs them that he intends to stop this expenditure in future and asks for information about Bank machinery and background...
Dates: 14 Sep 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes.
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1928

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/77/2-4
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, enclosing a paper on efforts to save £11 million expenditure and reporting that only a little over half the figure has been realised. He discusses the need for the "Boxer money" to meet the expense of keeping troops in China; naval estimates and the Admiralty's failure to find economies "They are so accustomed to carrying all before them by threats of resignation that they feel able to do themselves sumptuously in every branch and...
Dates: 29 Jan 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: Cabinet papers and correspondence on efforts to reduce expenditure.
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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1929

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/89-98
Scope and Contents Report on Total Nominal Dead Weight Debt, with a covering note from Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services] to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]. The introduction explains the fall of nominal dead weight debt by £107 millions since Mar 1925 and that the period has also seen the conversion of short term bonds into long term debt, and that the proportion of external debt and treasury bills and savings certificates have also...
Dates: 18 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: various papers from the 1929-1930 Budget file.
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(Untitled), 29-31 Mar 1929

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/137-138
Scope and Contents Memorandum from Frederick Leith-Ross [Deputy Controller of Finance] to Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services] and Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on government expenditure, countering criticism by [David] Lloyd George by explaining government development and expenditure on housing, roads, telephones etc, and guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act and Colonial Development schemes equating to over £300 million expenditure,...
Dates: 29-31 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: various papers from the 1929-1930 Budget file.
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(Untitled), 13 Apr [1929]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/186-187
Scope and Contents

Handwritten note from ?FG to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] enclosing typewritten figures on indirect taxes and percentages of total tax revenue from 1913/14- proposed figures for 1929/30 with a note on the figures for sugar, tea, cocoa, coffee and matches.Annotated [by WSC] "Keep."

Dates: 13 Apr [1929]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: various papers from the 1929-1930 Budget file.
 Unknown

(Untitled), 14 Feb 1929

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/102/23-24
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from WSC [Chancellor of the Exchequer] to William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, accepting naval estimates of £55,865,000 provided that the Treasury and Admiralty will continue to attempt to reduce expenditure; discussing scheduling of Cabinet enquiries into the Fleet Air Arm and Cordite Reserve; and undertaking to make no opposition to one larger type cruiser being built the following year.Unsigned carbon typescript.

Dates: 14 Feb 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Treasury / Official: Treasury: correspondence from WSC (carbon copies).
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(Untitled), 15 Jan 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/15-16
Scope and Contents

Letter from "Bob" [Robert Boothby] (The French House, Lympne, Kent) to WSC, explaining the Treasury case against [international currency] stabilisation, as "the dollar is hopelessly undervalued and the franc is hopelessly overvalued", and the position of the United States and France; the opinion of [Sir Frederick] Leith-Ross [Chief Economic Adviser to the Government] on the proper dollar-sterling rate. Manuscript.

Dates: 15 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Public and political: general / Public and political: general: correspondence.
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/3-4
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (House of Commons) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the announcement of the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] regarding the Government's intentions on the reform of the relations between the two Houses of Parliament and the [1909] Budget; and [John] Redmond's "menacing" speech on the position of the Irish [National] Party.

Dates: 21 Feb 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Home Office / Official: Home Office: House of Commons Letters.
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(Untitled), 03 Mar 1911

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/9/88-89
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from WSC (Home Office) to David [Lloyd George] marked "secret" requesting additional finances to reduce the large numbers of deaths in mining accidents. He points out that the miners' leaders are willing to co-operate with the government and that public opinion would approve of a "bold and sweeping policy" which he would propose to fund largely through charges on the mining industry. Typescript.

Dates: 03 Mar 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Home Office / Official: Home Office: Correspondence and papers.
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(Untitled), 04 Mar 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/28-30
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: discussion of the passage of the [1909] Budget; the suggestion by the Opposition that the Budget should be divided into a series of separate resolutions and the Government's objection to this idea. WSC expresses his hopes that the "catastrophe" which would result from the loss of the Budget can be avoided.

Dates: 04 Mar 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Home Office / Official: Home Office: House of Commons Letters.

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