File containing material relating to economic policy, including:

• Correspondence between David Owen and Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson concerning question of whether Britain should enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System, Sep-Oct 1984
• Papers concerning SDP policy on tax and social security reforms, including correspondence between David Owen and Dick Taverne discussing SDP proposals for tax reform and social security policy, Dec 1984-Apr 1985; drafts of the SDP green paper on tax reform Fairness and Enterprise , May 1985; memoranda/briefing notes for the SDP Tax Reform Group on tax reform and pensions policy, including proposals for the reform of State Earning Related Pensions, Sep 1984-May 1985; papers concerning the SDP policy document Merging tax and benefits including briefing notes, study of the proposals, press statement and copied article; transcripts of statements made by David Sainsburyand Dick Taverne on the SDP tax proposals, Sep 1986
• Inner file `International Economy' containing copy letter form David Owen to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson calling for a conference to resolve the international debt problem, with Lawson's reply, Apr 1986.