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PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Younger ("Local government finance Green Paper") [draft chapter on Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rate reform: safety nets") ["Kenneth Baker has cunningly revised the 'safety net' so that it gives fewer bonuses to the North and makes life easier for London"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Local government finance") [reply to Whitelaw minute of 23 Dec 85] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Local government finance Green Paper foreword") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local government finance studies: draft Green Paper") ["The proposal likely to attract the greatest public interest - and the fiercest political controversy - is that to replace domestic rates with a community charge"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of the Environment record of conversation ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker, Rifkind, Ancram, Waldegrave] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Green Paper: Paying for Local Government") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker draft statement to Parliament: "...shows you have been absolutely right to select him and William Waldegrave as the reform team..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Jan 28 Tu Press Major Her Majesty's Government Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Paying for local government") [request for extension of the consultation period] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Baker, Ridley, MacGregor, Wakeham, Giles Shaw, Waldegrave) ["Rates": "...prospective rate increases in... Wirral, Sefton and Bury... options for action..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting: 4.00 pm, 3 March") [prospective rate increases in Wirral, Sefton and Bury: options for action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind letter to Whitelaw (Paper for E(LF) meeting: 'Local Government finance studies: Scotland: proposed grant arrangements') ["...changes to the grant distribution arrangements needed with the introduction of a community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Norgrove ("Paying for local government: 1986-87 Scottish legislation") ["We are planning to move to a non-domestic rate uniform across the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Scottish Office paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 1 ("The Operation of the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Fowler paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 2 ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards letter to Ridley ("Green Paper 'Paying for Local Government'") ["...letter... from the Director of the CBI Wales in support of our proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("E (LF) (86) 1st Meeting") [Community Charge: "The Social Services Secretary has now circulated - very late - a Memorandum... that does little more than wring hands and draw attention to the considerable turbulence which the various reforms will cause..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 1st ("Introduction of the Community Charge") [also social security aspects] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Hailsham letter to Rifkind ("Paying for local government") ["...liability and subsequent enforcement... potential pressures on and resource implications for the court service..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Rifkind ("E(LF) 86(1) Operation of the Community Charge: Tied Houses") [Nick Edwards: "The philosophy of the Green Paper is that the community charge should apply to as many people as possible"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Fowler paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 3 ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 4 (CC Green Paper - "The Framework of Duties and Offences") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 2nd ("Framework of Duties and Offences associated with the Community Charge") [also social security aspects] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Community Charge - withholding services from those not registered") ["Such an approach has attractions... but it would be extremely difficult to frame the legislation... whenever use is made of local services, the community charge register may be checked..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 5 ("Community Charge: Possible Reliefs and Tax Concessions") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 6 ("Students and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 3rd ("Community Charge: possible reliefs and tax concessions") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Baker paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 7 ("Students and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 9 ("Introducing the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 4th ("Students and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 5th ("Introducing the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 6th ("Extension of the Dockland Light Railway"; possible exemption from CC for mentally handicapped; non-domestic rates) [declassified Jul 2015]
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