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CONFIDENTIAL

C.P.(51) 77

15TH MARCH, 1951

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COPY NO. 31

ECONOMIC SURVEY, 1951

Note by the Chancellor of the Exchequer

I circulate herewith a draft of the Economic Survey for 1951 which has been prepared by the Central Economic Planning Staff in conjunction with the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office and which, apart from the section on coal, has been agreed at the official level. The draft has been considered at the Economic Steering Committee and the Economic Planning Board and their comments have been taken into account in the present version.

The section on coal, which was prepared by the Ministry of Fuel and Power, had to be printed before it had been agreed with other Departments.

It will be noted that the tables in the Survey are at present grouped at the end of the text. It is proposed in the final version to insert them throughout the text in the passages to which they relate,

I propose that the paper should be taken first at Production Committee and subsequently at Cabinet. I hope that main comments on the Survey may be brought out in the discussion at Production Committee.

Treasury Cahmbers, S. W. 1.,

15TH MARCH, 1951.

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