City week

Title

City week

Genre

Interview; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

Jun 1979

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:26:57

Description

City Week, presented by Tom Maddocks, looks back at recent financial issues in the week of Chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s maiden Budget with an increase in VAT. Includes Parliamentary Budget excerpts and reactions to Budget. Also examines financial spending on the disabled; overseas aid spending; foreign trade and the EEC; commodities market. Reporters include Douglas Moffitt, Philip Bacon, Barbara Groom. Speakers include Sir Geoffrey Howe; Denis Healey MP; Eric Chalmers, economist; Peter Sherlock(?), Financial Weekly; David Jordan, Low Pay Unit; Stanley Tolson(?), MSC; Neil Marten, overseas development minister; David Heathfield, author; John Drew, author; Dick Grace, Conti Commodities. Studio direction by Ray Gannon(?).

Contributors

Geoffrey Howe; Barbara Groom; Denis Healey; Tom Maddocks; Douglas Moffitt; David Jordan; Philip Bacon; Ray Gannon(?); Dick Grace; Eric Chalmers; Peter Sherlock(?); Stanley Tolson(?); Neil Marten; David Heathfield; John Drew

Keywords

Budgets; Taxation; Economics; EEC; Disabled people; National budgets; International trade; Financial policy; Foreign aid; Value Added Tax; Financial statistics; Financial markets; Commodities; MSC; Low Pay Unit

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