TREASURY PAPERS
Series One: Papers of the Economic Section, 1941-1961 (Public Record Office Class T 230)

Part 3: T 230/74-109

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T 230/74: Fishing Industry Bill 1947 (EAS 117/181/01) December 1946-March 1947. Briefs for Morrison.
T 230/75: Germany - Tripartite talks: General papers (EAS44/01 A) May 1944-May1946. Various papers on the inter-war and wartime German economy.
T 230/76: Germany - Tripartite talks: General papers (EAS 44/01 B) May 1946-November 1948. Includes papers on the co-ordination of German trade with the UK and the level of industrial production in Germany. Control Commission for Germany report on the on the bizonal balance of payments 1948-52.
T 230/77: Germany - Tripartite talks: Level of German industries (excluding shipbuilding) (EAS 44/70/01 A) March 1946-June 1947. Various papers on reparations, the level of post-war German industry and the removal of machinery as reparations.

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T 230/78: Germany - Tripartite talks: Level of German industries (excluding shipbuilding) (EAS 44/70/01 B) 1947-1948
T 230/79: Location of industry: General policy (EAS 70/01 A) November 1940-November 1941. Papers on post-war reconstruction.
T 230/80: Location of industry: General policy (EAS 70/01 B) August 1943-February 1944. E A G Robinson on the need for positive action. Draft Board of Trade memorandum for the Steering Committee on Post-war Employment (EC(43)5) proposing a ban on development around London and Birmingham and encouragement of industry in depressed areas. Various relevant Steering Committee memoranda with comments.

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T 230/81: Reconstruction Committee: Ministerial Committee on Industrial Problems. R(I) minutes of meetings (EAS 137/04) May-December 1944 R(I)(44) 1st-7th. See CAB 87/14.
T 230/82: Reconstruction Committee: Subcommittee on Industrial Problems, Export Questions (EAS 137/28/01) August 1944-May 1945. R(IE)(44)1st-R(IE)(45)3rd and R(IE)(44)1-R(IE)(45)7. See CAB 87/14-15.
T 230/83 IMF: Interpretative declaration on Bretton Woods Conference (EAS 39/02) November 1945-May 1946. Papers on countries' right to depreciate if there was chronic unemployment whatever the balance of payments situation.
T 230/84: Planning and timing of investment (EAS 6/02) December 1941-December 1943. Some minutes and memoranda of the Subcommittee on the Planning and Timing of Investment (PT). 1943 Treasury memorandum on public investment with Economic Section comments. Some papers of the Steering Committee on Post-war Employment. J E Meade on the League of Nations delegation on economic depressions and on how to control private investment.
T 230/85 : Working parties on investment: General papers. (EAS 6/72/01) January-December 1946. Papers on the establishment of the Investment Working Party (IWP) and its relations with the Official Steering Committee on Economic Development (ED). Various papers on the control of investment during the transition and in the long term. Correspondence with the Ministry of Labour on manpower distribution and its relation to investment programmes.
T 230/86: Investment Working Party 1946: Memoranda. (EAS 6/72/02) February 1946-July 1947. IWP(46)1-20. See T161/1297/S.53555/01.

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T 230/87: Nationalization of the iron and steel industry (EAS 2/70/02) January 1945-August 1947.
T 230/88: Wartime livestock policy (EAS 112/01 A) Wartime livestock policy, 1940-1941
T 230/89: Wartime livestock policy (EAS 112/01 B) Wartime livestock policy, 1941-1943
T 230/90: Functions of Cabinet secretariat: Historical memorandum (EAS 42/02) June 1944. First revise of paper on functions since 1904.

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T 230/91: Allocation of civilian manpower for industry and armed forces. Group II and III (EAS 128/01) September 1943-August 1944. Estimates of wartime manpower requirements and correspondence on allocations for group II and III industries. Some minutes and memoranda of the Manpower Committee.
T 230/92: Washington talks on Article VII Mutual Aid Agreement (EAS 232/01) February 1942-July 1944. Report by J E Meade and telegrams from Washington. Other papers on commercial commodity policy and various briefs for ministers.
T 230/93: Mutual Aid: Anglo-US post-war economic co-operation (EAS 232/03) December 1940-January 1945. Various papers and speeches. Little after 1942.

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T 230/94: National debt: Economic proposals (EAS 12/01 A) April 1941-April 1945. Request by Attlee for paper on a capital levy and its impact on the national debt, with J E Meade's and J M Keynes's views. Papers on the formation of the National Debt Enquiry with some of its minutes and memoranda.
T 230/95: National debt: Economic proposals (EAS 12/01 B) April-July 1945. Further minutes and memoranda with related correspondence, including J M Keynes, on capital levy and capital budget.
T 230/96 1: National income and expenditure during wartime
2. Post-war prospects (EAS 50/01A) July 1939-June 1942. J E Meade's papers and correspondence, including with J M Keynes, on national income estimates and wartime finances. Papers after 1942 on post-war national income.

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T 230/97 1: National income and expenditure during wartime
2. Post-war prospects (EAS 50/01 B) May 1942-July 1943. Papers increasingly concentrating on estimates of post-war national income and expenditure by the Economic Section, W Eady, J M. Keynes and H D. Henderson leading to papers for the Reconstruction Priorities Committee.
T 230/98 1: National income and expenditure during wartime
2. Post-war prospects (EAS 50/01C) July-December 1943. Further papers on national income and expenditure in 1948, in particular with regard to commitments for expenditure and employment policy.
T 230/99: National Income and Expenditure White Paper 1945 (EAS 50/179/01) January 1944-March 1945. Copy of J E Meade's and R Stone's National Income and Expenditure. Drafts of sections of the White Paper, in particular with regard to statistics and later drafts of White Paper.
T 230/100: Proposed reform and development of social insurance and allied services (EAS 142/01 A) Proposed reform and development of social insurance and allied services, 1940-1941
T 230/101: Proposed reform and development of social insurance and allied services (EAS 142/01 B) Proposed reform and development of social insurance and allied services, 1941-1942

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T 230/102: Proposed reform and development of social insurance and allied services (EAS 142/01 C) September 1942-November 1943. Papers arising out of the Beveridge Report, particularly on J E Meade's proposal to vary insurance contributions.
T 230/103: Proposed reform and development of social insurance and allied services (EAS 142/01 D) November-December 1943. Further papers leading to the White Paper on the government's proposals.
T 230/104: Benefit rates and subsistence needs, 1940-1942 (EAS 142/02)

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T 230/105: National Insurance. Variations of Contributions. (EAS 142/143/01) December 1945-May 1946. Papers by J E Meade, J M Keynes and others for draft of the National Insurance Bill.
T 230/106: Preparation of plans for transferring certain industries to public ownership (EAS 144/01 A) Preparation of plans for transferring certain industries to public ownership, 1945-1946
T 230/107: Preparation of plans for transferring certain industries to public ownership (EAS 144/01 B) Preparation of plans for transferring certain industries to public ownership, 1946-1947
T 230/108: Anglo-US memorandum of understanding on oil and petroleum during wartime (EAS 25/01) February-August 1944.
T 230/109: OEEC long-term planning (EAS 58/02) January-December 1948. Little before August. Mainly administrative papers on progress and amendments to the OEEC long-term programme. Views on possible Western European co-operation and conflict between the United Kingdom and other countries, eg: on liberalization.