| Description | This file includes correspondence regarding the Governor's decision to take on the chairmanship of the City Liaison Committee. Issues for discussion at Committee meetings included the function, scope and membership of the Committee; European Economic Community (EEC) directives; the importance of invisibles; the Watkinson Committee (the Company Affairs Committee set up by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)); the revised constitution of the British Bankers' Association (BBA); the report of Lord Devlin's Committee of Inquiry into Industrial and Commercial Representation; taxation on overseas income; the report of the Inter-Bank Research Organisation (IBRO) on the future of London as an International Financial Centre; the visit of Monsieur Simonet (Vice-President of the EEC) to London; industrial management and the industrial investor; city rates; company law reform; liaison on EEC matters; and liaison on taxation matters. This file includes briefing notes on many of these issues. |