Economic policy
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on reducing national expenditure, including with members of the House of Commons Economy Group., 22 May 1927 - 31 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/67
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Correspondents include: John Gretton MP (8); Geoffrey Fry [Private Secretary to Stanley Baldwin]; Sir Philip Pilditch MP (2); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (11); Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] (2); Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] (2); Alfred Hurst [Treasury] (3); Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury]; Patrick Duff [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] (2).Also includes copy of Cabinet paper and a...
Dates:
22 May 1927 - 31 Dec 1927
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on reducing the air estimates for 1927-1928., 17 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/35
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Correspondents include: Secretary of State for Air [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood]; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Philip Sassoon [Under-Secretary of State for Air].
Dates:
17 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on reducing the joint estimates for the fighting services., 19 Mar 1926 - 27 Mar 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/31
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Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet].Also includes copy letters and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin].
Dates:
19 Mar 1926 - 27 Mar 1926
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on reducing the naval estimates for 1927-1928., 14 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/32
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Correspondents include: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty (5); Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury].
Dates:
14 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
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Official: Treasury: correspondence, pamphlets and tables on miscellaneous subjects., 1925 - 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/26
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Correspondents include: Gilbert Upcott [Deputy Controller, Treasury], the High Commissioner for the Malay States [later part of Malaysia, Sir Hugh Clifford], and Secretary of State for the Colonies [Leo Amery] (2) on rubber restrictions; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, from 1927], Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, until 1927] (2), and Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] on the tariff on imported consumer goods.Also includes WSC and...
Dates:
1925 - 1928
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Official: Treasury: Imperial Economic Committee: papers on marketing Empire produce in the United Kingdom., Dec 1924 - Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/15
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Includes Committee terms of reference, memoranda, draft conclusions, and reports.Also includes notes and correspondence from: Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury] (4); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); William Brown [Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade] (2); 1st Lord Byng [Governor-General, Canada]; Thomas Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet] (2); Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance,...
Dates:
Dec 1924 - Dec 1925
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Official: Treasury: letters of congratulation on the budget., 24 Apr 1928 - 17 May 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/76
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Correspondents include: Sir Richard Colvin [Lord Lieutenant of Essex]; 17th Lord Derby; Sir John Cadman; 1st Lord Balfour [Lord President of the Council]; 1st Lord Weir; Sir William Tyrrell [Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office]; Sir Harry Goschen; Sir Ian Malcolm and 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] commenting on its effect on agriculture; Hugh Pollock [First Minister of Finance for Ulster, Ireland]; Frederick Guest MP; "George L" [1st Lord Lloyd of Dolobran, High...
Dates:
24 Apr 1928 - 17 May 1928
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Official: Treasury: memorandum on potential naval competition between Britain and the United States, and its impact on British debt repayment, by "RGH" [Ralph Hawtrey, Director of Financial Enquiries, Treasury]., 19 Dec 1927 - 21 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/69
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From the Series:
The Treasury papers contain correspondence, minutes, tables, printed reports, and other papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position held from November 1924 to June 1929. The papers have been divided into general correspondence, WSC's outgoing minutes, and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Treasury material covers WSC's ministerial duties as Chancellor, including the annual production of the budget,...
Dates:
19 Dec 1927 - 21 Dec 1927
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Official: Treasury: minutes to WSC on estate duty relief on agricultural land., 17 Mar 1927 - 29 Mar 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/61
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Includes minutes from: Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] (4); Sir Percy Thompson [Deputy Chairman Board of Inland Revenue] (2).
Dates:
17 Mar 1927 - 29 Mar 1927
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Official: Treasury: Navy Estimates 1925-1926: correspondence., 15 Nov 1924 - 16 Feb 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/4
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Includes correspondence with William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, (8).Also includes carbon copies of letters from WSC to Bridgeman and Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary], Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] and 1st Lord Beatty [1st Sea Lord]; abstract of sketch navy estimates.Subjects include: problems over the increase in navy estimates, including its discussion at Cabinet level; the defence of Singapore; the threat of Japan; information demanded from the Admiralty by the...
Dates:
15 Nov 1924 - 16 Feb 1925
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on block grants., 20 Aug 1926 - 25 May 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/62
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Correspondents include: Alfred Hurst [Treasury] (5); Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury] (3); Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] (2); Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education] (3).Also includes: Cabinet Committee on Block Grants papers, including its composition and terms of reference, memoranda by WSC (2), Percy (2), Chamberlain (2), and Home Secretary [Sir William Joynson Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford], conclusions of meetings, reports, and...
Dates:
20 Aug 1926 - 25 May 1927
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on economising the 1928-1929 expenditure., 19 Jul 1927 - 24 Aug 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/49
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Includes drafts and copies of letters sent out in the name of the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to the following ministers on reducing their departmental expenditure for 1928-1929: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; Sir William Joynson Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary; Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood]; Secretary of State for the Colonies and Dominions, Leo Amery; Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain; Secretary of...
Dates:
19 Jul 1927 - 24 Aug 1927
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on economising the current expenditure., 19 Jun 1927 - 21 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/48
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Includes drafts and copies of letters sent out in the name of the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to the following ministers on reducing their departmental expenditure for 1927-1928: Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Dominions, Leo Amery; First Lord of the Admiralty, William Bridgeman; Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir John Gilmour; Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain; the 1st Commissioner of Works, 1st Lord Peel; Secretary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans;...
Dates:
19 Jun 1927 - 21 Dec 1927
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on reducing the army estimates for 1927-1928., 13 Dec 1926 - 24 Feb 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/34
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Correspondents include: Sir Herbert Creedy [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War] (3); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War (2).Also includes details of army estimates 1926-1927 and drafts for 1927-1928; Cabinet papers by Worthington-Evans and WSC; copy letters and minutes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Sir George Barstow [Controller of...
Dates:
13 Dec 1926 - 24 Feb 1927
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Official: Treasury: papers comparing British and United States exports, in response to a letter from Henry Croft MP in the Daily Mail arguing for protectionism., 29 Aug 1928 - 31 Aug 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/78
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Includes 2 minutes by Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; copy of a letter from Robert Shackle [Assistant Principal, Board of Trade]; copy of a minute from WSC to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; cutting from the Daily Mail.
Dates:
29 Aug 1928 - 31 Aug 1928
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Official: Treasury: taxation and debt payments., Jun 1925 - Jul 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/22
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Includes a memorandum from Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] on the tax burden for the rich, sending on a copy of the official report of House of Lords debates for 29 June 1925, featuring an exchange on the Finance Bill.
Dates:
Jun 1925 - Jul 1925
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Official: Treasury: various memoranda on trade and finance., 17 Jun 1927 - 23 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/70
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Includes memoranda on: unemployment and the state of the coal mining industry by ?Ernest Gowers [Permanent Under-Secretary for Mines]; import prohibition and legislation by Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] and Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; notes of a meeting between Treasury officials and various bankers on agricultural credit, and between employers and the TUC General Council (with a cutting from the Daily Herald).Also includes notes by...
Dates:
17 Jun 1927 - 23 Dec 1927
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Official: Treasury: various pamphlets on unemployment, trade unions, etc., c 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/23
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Includes copies of: the Labour Magazine for September 1925 containing an article by Walter Citrine [Assistant Secretary, TUC] on "Lessons from the mining dispute"; the Unemployment Insurance Act; "Trade, currency, industry and unemployment" and "The remedy for unemployment: get the workers back to work" by Sir Alfred Mond [later 1st Lord Melchett]; "The co-operative movement and party politics", published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.Also includes...
Dates:
c 1925
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Official: Treasury: various papers from the 1929-1930 Budget file., 12 Jul 1928 - 13 Apr 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100
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Includes memoranda, minutes, notes and letters by individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including WSC and: Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (3); Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise]; Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] (6); Sir Sydney Chapman [Chief Economic Adviser to Government]; Sir Alfred Watson [Government Actuary] (2); Augustus Webb [?Chief of Intelligence Branch, HM Customs and Excise] (2); Frederick Phillips [Principal Assistant...
Dates:
12 Jul 1928 - 13 Apr 1929
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 21 Jan 1928 - 01 Mar 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/86
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary, Treasury] (7); President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton]; 1st Lord Weir; Thomas Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet]; Sir Arthur Robinson [Secretary to Ministry of Health]; Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes:...
Dates:
21 Jan 1928 - 01 Mar 1928
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 26 Feb 1928 - 19 Mar 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/87
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary, Treasury]; President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (2); Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir John Gilmour; Secretary of State for the Dominions, Leo Amery; David Monteath [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India]; Secretary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans; Neville Chamberlain,...
Dates:
26 Feb 1928 - 19 Mar 1928
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 22 Feb 1928 - 27 Mar 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/88
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain on the fixed rate to be levied by local authorities and its revenue; President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] on the proposed exemption of new industrial property from rates; Secretary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Cornelius...
Dates:
22 Feb 1928 - 27 Mar 1928
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 27 Mar 1928 - 24 Apr 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/89
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education] (2); Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; officials of the National Chamber of Trade, including James Clark and Sir William Perring; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Leo Amery; Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary, Treasury] (5); Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier...
Dates:
27 Mar 1928 - 24 Apr 1928
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 15 Jun 1928 - 28 Jun 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/92
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Sir Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] (5); Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury] (2); Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary, Treasury]; Minister of Health [Neville Chamberlain]; Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir John Gilmour; Alfred Faulkner [Under-Secretary for Mines and Petroleum].Also includes: Cabinet minutes; copies of Ministry of Health and Scottish Office...
Dates:
15 Jun 1928 - 28 Jun 1928
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 04 Jul 1928 - 08 Aug 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/93
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury] (2); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (5); Finlay Gibson and Thomas Richards MP of the Board of Conciliation for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales; Evan Williams [President, Mining Association of Great Britain]; President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame,...
Dates:
04 Jul 1928 - 08 Aug 1928
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