TREASURY PAPERS
Series One: Papers of the Economic Section, 1941-1961

Part 4: T 230/110-145

The material in Part 4 covers the period 1940-1952. There are good files addressing the variety of problems which afflicted Britain’s war-time economy, post-war economic development, trade and commercial policy. The main topics are:

• National wages policy.
• Price stabilization.
• The effect of air raids on factory production.
• Rationing.
• Inter-departmental Committee on Reparations and Economic Security.
• Commercial policy: Proposals for a commercial clearing union.
• Inter-departmental Committee on Post-war Commercial Policy.
• Commercial policy.
• Ministerial Committee on Post-war Commercial Policy.
• Post-war Export trade Committee.
• Future British export prospects in connection with increasing
  world competition.
• Proposed post-war trade collaboration with Allied governments.
• Statistics relating to trade tariffs and preferences.
• Working Party on Expansion of UK Trade with Eastern Europe.
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
• Lend-lease papers.
• Termination of Lend-Lease and transitionary period negotiations.
• Economic Section of the Cabinet Secretariat: Discussion papers.
• Economic Survey for 1948-1952.

Contained within the files in Part 4 are documents that look at the range of contemporary economic issues. File T 230/143 in particular, contains a wide selection of pertinent Discussion Papers by leading government economists, including:

• The 1949/1950 Programme - J Jukes.
• Alternative Methods of Controlling Price - M F W Hemming.
• Intra-European Trade and Payments - J M Fleming.
• Wages Policy - J Downie.
• The Economic Section’s Beliefs - D M B Butt.
• Economic Policy in a Recession - J C R Dow and R Hall.
• Investment Policy in a Recession - R F Bretherton.
• Inflationary Pressure - K Howell.
• Conditions for Operating a One World System - M F W Hemming.
• How much Investment? - F J Atkinson.
• Notes on Central Planning - R Hall and Mr D Allen.
• The Problem of Unemployment - J Grieve Smith.