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Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson - Cranley Onslow) [discontent over Community Charge safety net, suggests concessions to pensioners in January] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: 11 Downing Street
Source: T640/1191 f106
Editorial comments:

Onslow was chairman of the 1922 Committee. The tables mentioned in John Gieve's note (pp3-4) do not seem to be present in the file. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Parliament, Conservative Party (organization), Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meetings