Memoranda on the Government's civil spending estimates, including: brief for ministers; text of speech by [George] Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Mansion House, London; minutes and memoranda by Thorneycroft on the economic situation, the National Insurance Fund and civil defence spending and notes for a speech to Cabinet; minutes and draft paper by JEP on spending cuts; minute by Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] to ministers on the need for cuts; note by Sir Thomas Padmore [Second Secretary, Treasury] on a minute by JEP on the estimates.