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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number GAITSKELL/C/133
TitleMS notes and papers relating to the Debate on the Address
Date1955
DescriptionQueen's Speech, annotated by Gaitskell 9/6/55
MS quotations from the press (2ff) 2-5/54
'Bulletin for Industry' 6/55
'Sunday Express' article on inflation by Frederick Ellis, annotated 12/6/55
LP 'Talking Points' 30/4/55
Chancellor of the Exchequer's 'Economic Survey 1955' (HMSO)

Typed notes, possibly from the LP Research Department, some annotated by David Ginsburg::
'Food Import Prices'
'Profit Sharing and Co-Partnership'
'The Economic Outlook'
'The Effect of H.P.Restrictions'
'Hire Purchase Contracts'
'New Permanent Houses under Construction' (2 notes with the same title but different content)
'Variations in the Gold and Dollar Reserves'
'Imports from the Dollar Area'
'Capital Gains' (with ms additions by Ginsburg 3ff)
'Ownership of Stock Exchange Shares'
Letter from Ginsburg enclosing notes, 'Number of Persons Owning Stock Exchange Shares', a note on the phrase 'A Property Owning Democracy' and a press cutting 'Trials of Public Ownership' by Geoffrey Lloyd [?1955]
Gaitskell MS notes on the 'Stock Exchange', 'Hire Purchase', 'Bank Rate', 'Our Policy',and 'Positive Plans for Redistribution of Wealth' (18ff)
Gaitskell MS notes for the debate (11ff, 5ff, 3ff, 2ff, and 5 loose notes).
Extent1 file
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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