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PDF 89 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge") [meeting to discuss possible further concession on the local authority grants settlement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Surplus Land and Dwellings") [survey on government holdings] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Dec 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Surrey County Council letter to Surrey MPs ("Community Charge") [likely charge for each of the local districts, council budget] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") [will lay reports to determine the settlement; establishment of unified business rate] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Patten-Lawson-Hunt-Renton-Mills) [backbench rebellion, grant settlement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("1990/91 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [how to respond to picture presented by own folk in local government] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (local authority grant settlement) [reports to be tabled; information campaign on benefits] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Community Charge") [timetable for laying local authority grants settlement reports] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Non-Domestic Rating") [phasing down non-domestic poundages in Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge") [Patten's officials working on a possible fall-back package] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting with John Marshall and Sydney Chapman") [situation in Barnet] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("1990/91 Local Authority Grant Settlement") ["no neat, simple and cheap solution that will secure the support of a large number of rebels"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS to Paul Gray ("Revenue Support Grant Settlement") [possible defeat on RSG reports to be debated] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") [fall-back possibilities, consequences of a parliamentary loss] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("1990/92 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [Patten's options for Barnet] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Marshall MP) [implications of local authority grant settlement for Barnet] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT- Howe, Major, Patten, Lamont, Renton, Hunt, Butler, Wilson, Mills) [Local Authority Grant Settlement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Community Charge Debate") [Hansard for the day] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT personal minute to Chris Patten (thanks for hard work) ["local government finance is a subject of fiendish complexity"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT personal letter to Chris Patten (thanks for hard work) ["superb way" Patten and Hunt have put forward the government's case] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Welsh Office to No 10 ("Welsh Local Government Finance Debate: 24 January 1990") [draft opening speech] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Barnet Community Charge") [two possible approaches to grant settlement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS to Paul Gray ("Transitional Relief") [basis for fixing the assumed community charges] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Relief") [range of proposals] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (Community Charge capping) [tight timetable will mean taking complex decisions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Relief") [proposed £3 cap on transitional relief] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Lamont-Hunt-Wilson) [arrangements for transitional relief] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ingham minute to MT ("Community Charge") [conversation with Shirley Porter, about to announce Westminster City Council charge under £200; coming week "CRUCIAL, PARTICULARLY IN THE PRESENTATION OF THE COMMUNITY CHARGE"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [problems that are likely to occur from implementation] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Meeting with Colleagues on 13 February") [issues still to be faced, views on the "Higgins Scheme"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS to Paul Gray (levels of community charges) [tables for meeting] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("The Community Charge") [student nurses, savings rule for pensioners] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Lamont-Renton-Hunt-Mills-Wilson) [transitional relief, concessions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping") [attaches great importance to the policy; options for implementation] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping") [accepts political arguments for suggested timetable, but has "unattractive consequences" for Community Charge Benefit] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Charles Powell minute to MT (charge capping) [supported by Nick Lyell, David Madel and Conservative group on Bedfordshire council] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Cecil Parkinson ("Treatment of Capital Debt in the New Revenue Support Grant") ["there is little I can do at this stage"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Tony Newton ("Community Charge Capping") [open to local authorities to set lower substitute charges] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (local authorities' budgeting decisions) [position looks like it will turn out to be worse than expected] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Howe PS minute to Patten PS ("Treatment of Capital Debt in the New Revenue Support Grant") [proposals are "very far from being an entirely comfortable position to defend"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT notes of conversation (MT-Greater London Conservative MPs) [concerns] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping and Local Authorities' Preparedness") [proposal to ensure that Community Charge Benefit, paid on charges later reduced by capping, is treated as an overpayment] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to Patten PS ("Questions Briefing on the Community Charge") [information required on local authorities] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Patten PS ("Transitional Relief") [proposals based on government assumed spending of each local authority] [released Dec 2016]
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