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Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Lawson)

Community Charge: No.10 letter to PS DHSS ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel") [MT's dissent from Scott's view] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/822 f55
Editorial comments:

Lawson's annotation refers to HB, meaning presumably housing benefit, which was subject to regional limits. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 1p
Themes: Social security & welfare, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Defence (general)