| Description | Includes: notes of meetings between the Bank, Chancellor and Treasury (HMT) officials on monetary policy; correspondence between Norman Lamont (Chancellor) and Robin Leigh-Pemberton (Governor) , on monetary issues; interpretations of monetary conditions;:notes on monetary prospects; papers on the structure of the UK banking sector, including the behaviour of Lloyd's and Barclays from 1970-1983; Bank paper on corporate banking in the UK in the 1980s; Bank paper on clearing bank's behaviour and banking market structure; Bank paper on how ERM entry affects monetary policy; interest rates, including consultations with Spain; Bank briefing on recent developments in gilt-edged and money markets; note to the Governor of a meeting in which the Prime Minister showed his impatience over the pace of the reduction in interest rates, outlining the Bank's views should he them; various versions of a Bank paper on the orientation of monetary policy and the monetary policy decision making process in the United Kingdom (UK); Note to the Governor for a Markets meeting on 22 March. |