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Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1910

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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.
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(Untitled), 04 Mar 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/28-30
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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.
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/2/62-71
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, explaining his efforts to have a settled financial policy and discussing increased navy estimates and his calculations that they are higher than suggested. He argues that armaments expenditure paralyses government policy in social and industrial reform, tax reduction and borrowing and warns that accepting the navy estimates will lead to electoral defeat; that the Admiralty is preoccupied with unfounded and unlikely threats from...
Dates: 13 Dec 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/3/19-20
Scope and Contents

Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] on war reparations and the payment of war debts to the United States. WSC feels that there is a good prospect of obtaining reparations from Europe, including 25 million pounds a year from Germany, and that they should wait for proposals from France and Italy. He advocates an open statement that all previous offers have lapsed.

Dates: 25 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/3/25
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Unsigned memorandum [from WSC] to [James] Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] asking for their opinions about spreading debt "more broadly over the shoulders of posterity" by converting to lower interest rates and long securities instead of reducing the sinking fund.Carbon typescript.

Dates: 26 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/64-66
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Chartwell) to Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] querying figures: reduced revenue from McKenna duties; whether increased consumption and taxation have been accompanied by increased production and depletion of capital reserves; whether levels of saving have been reduced given the rise in unemployment. He concludes by asking Hamilton to forecast figures.Typescript signed with initials annotated by WSC "Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]...
Dates: 16 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/89-94
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, marked "most secret" relaying a conversation with Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] about including the costs of widows and old age insurance in the budget; balancing relief to the direct taxpayer; meeting the cost of war pensions; the timing of implementing Chamberlain's Insurance Bill; establishment of a committee of experts to consider insurance; housing and funding for building "Weir" steel houses; and support for...
Dates: 28 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Apr [1924]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/141-143
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Memorandum from Frederick Leith-Ross [British representative on Finance Board of the Reparation Commission] to WSC responding to his queries. He explains the delay between the collection of reparations and payment into the Exchequer and £6 million interest earned from investment of German funds; discusses reasons to avoid specific public mention of this and the basis for lower estimates this year.Typescript.

Dates: 24 Apr [1924]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/150-164
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer [WSC] to King George V about his budget proposals. He explains that the budget has two main objectives: to provide security for the wage earning population against misfortune and to encourage the "enterprise of the nation" by remission of income taxes; that the 1925 budget is based on tax revenue of £826 million set against expenditure of £799.5 million; proposals to increase estate duty and taxes on luxury goods and to re-introduce the...
Dates: 23 Apr 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jun 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/11/15-22
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, about a possible enquiry into protection of the steel industry, pointing out that there will be consequences because it underpins the rest of British industry, which make it likely that an enquiry would over-ride the claims of the steel industry, or if it didn't, that Free Trade will become a dominant feature of British politics. WSC suggests that the government is not obliged to set up an enquiry, and that a Royal Commission...
Dates: 12 Jun 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/12A/8
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Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] asking him about the impact of the return to the Gold Standard on the United States "Shall we not be relieving them from the consequences of their selfish and extortionate policy?" and suggesting that [Ralph] Hawtrey [Director of Financial Enquiries, Treasury] should draft a paper about the subject.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.

Dates: 02 Jan 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/12B/162
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Copy of a minute from WSC to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] informing him that he will not circulate the "gold papers" [about the return to the Gold Standard] to the Cabinet and will explain them verbally, because of information obtained by the press about the contributory insurance policy.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.

Dates: 23 Apr 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 7 Jan 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/30A/16-23
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Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] asking his "Committee of Five" to consider a revolutionary scheme to separate coprporate and investment income, treat earned income more favourably, and levy income and super tax on investment income by means of a national register. He ends by summarising the advantages of this scheme and discussing the establishment of the register.Carbon typescript.

Dates: 7 Jan 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 7 Mar 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/30A/129-130
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Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] marked "absolutely secret" asking for Hopkins' scheme to spend £8-£10 million on giving relief to the reserves of companies, and discussing measures to give relief to the employers of labour.Unsigned typescript.

Dates: 7 Mar 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/30B/188-191
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorandum to Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] and Sir Russell Scott [Controller] markled "secret" on the case of a Treasury clerk "Counter" who has sold government secrets to the press. He asks them to draft an announcement for the [Civil] Service and for information about the loss of official documents in the Treasury and the employment of "searchers" to locate them, suggesting the introduction of a docketing and minuting system; plus the use of locked boxes to...
Dates: 28 Mar 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Oct 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/30B/309-314
Scope and Contents Memorandum from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] seeking advice about the effect of a reduction or increase in income tax on gilt edged government stock, specifically the correspondence between the rise of the stock and reduction in tax; the impact on consumers of raised taxation; consumption as an indicator of prosperity; and National Debt. He concludes "To sum up, a reduction in taxation is the greatest economic service which a state can render to the population...
Dates: 28 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Jan 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/36/1-13
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of WSC's proposal for the betting tax.

Dates: 10 Jan 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Oct 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/37/28
Scope and Contents Letter from Pembroke Wicks (Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Bridge Street, Westminster, [London]) to John Davidson [Parliamentary Secretary, Admiralty] about likely political embarrassment over the Betting Tax, asking him to try and ensure that Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] has information available for the public, especially that the licenses cannot "operate as a cloak for dishonest bookmakers", and asking for advance copies of the...
Dates: 12 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/40/55-58
Scope and Contents Memorandum from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] marked "Private & Personal To be returned" on subjects including: conversion; the addition of £37 million to the national debt; contrast to the freedom from debt in Germany and France; and WSC's view that the Treasury will be criticised for favouring a 'rentier' class over 'social, moral or manufacturing' interests. He ends by asking Niemeyer to prepare proposals for using forced loans and government bonds as part...
Dates: 26 Jan 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1918-Feb 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/40/68-74
Scope and Contents

Memorandum from Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] to WSC enclosing newspaper cuttings and an extract from the Cunliffe Committee report as background information about [Reginald] McKenna's Federal Reserve theory and summarising the reasons for his opposition to the proposals.Typescript signed with initials

Dates: 1918-Feb 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jun 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/64/3-13
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, marked "secret and personal" on the need to "dominate events lest we be submerged by them", reflecting on achievements of the government but predicting bleak prospects for the next year as the government has not been successful, his own efforts to reduce expenditure have failed, the Factory and Poor Law Bills and Franchise will not support them, and advising that a constructive measure is needed. He seeks Baldwin's support for...
Dates: 06 Jun 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/72
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Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] on opposition amendments to the Finance Bill, seeking figures to show that the majority of the relief will go to the industries where profits are lowest and unemployment is highest.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.

Dates: 29 May 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jul 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/134-137
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] instructing him to present WSC's view to the President of the Board of Trade [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] on the impact of the attitude of [Sir Otto] Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] "of letting everything smash into bankruptcy and unemployment in order that reconstruction can be built up upon the ruins" He discusses forest...
Dates: 22 Jul 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928

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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
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928

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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

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