| Description | Report by James Harold Wilson, then junior minister, Board of Trade. Commissioned by Chancellor and Cabinet to enquire into the adequacy of the balance of payments statistics following the failure of sterling convertibility just before; visited Bank, as did his assistant, Miss Joan Mitchell; preliminary note to Chancellor on statistics from Commonwealth Countries (folio 7c 13 Sept 47); main report and annexes drafted; first version 1 October 1947 (folio 18); recommendations largely implemented (folio 24a 9 Mar 48). |