| Description | Includes: speech given by the Governor at the opening of the Management Services Centre of National Westminster Bank Limited, 25 April 1979; Letter to the Chancellor on sterling exchange rates and sterling policy issues, 4 May; Letter to the Chancellor on domestic monetary policy, 4 May; paper on the operations of Credit National by Andre de Lattre for an informal meeting at the Bank of England; letter to the Chancellor on exchange control policy, 11 May 1979, including a schedule of relaxations, the structure of exchange control and a summary of exchange controls in G10 countries; letter from Gordon Richardson to Lord Cobbold about the Lords Report on EMS, 31 May 1979; letter to the Chancellor about the financing of third world trade in sterling; letter to the Chancellor on the ECU swap, 5 Jun 1979; letter to the Chancellor recommending a rise in the Minimum Lending Rate from 12% to 14%, 6 June; letter to the Chancellor from the Deputy Governor relating to methods of enquiry into the Stock Exchange's restrictive practices, 11 Jun 1979; letter to the Chancellor from the Deputy Governor relating to an addditional meeting of Court to be held on 12 June, at which the Governor would recommend an increase in the Minimum Lending Rate to 14% and the operation of the Supplementary Special Deposits scheme be continued for another three months; letter from The Deputy Governor to Sir Lawrence Airey at the Treasury (HMT) with a note on the sale of BP shares, 14 Jun 1979; letter to the Chancellor on oil demand restraint; letter to Sir Douglas Wass from Jasper Hollom on the authorisation by the Bank's Court of Directors of a payment to the Treasury of £5,000,000, under the 1946 Banking Act, 21 June 1979. |