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PDF 90 Feb 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Mills letter to Hunt ("Community Charge: meeting with the Conservative group of the Solihull Council") [ "Each Councillor voiced total disenchantment with the way in which the Community Charge legislation is operating...I do urdge you to meet with us as soon as possible"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Iain Mills letter to MT (Solihull) [feelings of the Conservative group on the local council] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Gillian Shephard (substitute Community Charge bills) [impact on benefit subsidy arrangements] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Howe PS ("Treatment of Capital Debt in the New Revenue Support Grant") [methodology for calculation] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Dominic Morris minute to MT (Heseltine's local government changes at Environment) [steady refusal as a minister to countenance rating reform] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("The Community Charge and the RPI") [transition relief and student discounts in calculation of RPI] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge and the RPI") [establishment of a new advisory committee] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord President's Office minute to No 10 ("Community Charge") [Howe's liability] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Major PS ("The Community Charge and the RPI") [transition relief and student discounts in calculation of RPI] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Rifkind PS ("Capital Limit") [retrospection for Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Lord President's Office ("Community Charge") [Howe's liability] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Mark Lennox-Boyd note to Gray (brief MT for meeting with Ralph Howell MP on his alternative to community charge) ["will be a waste of time, but ... will have to do it to keep his frustration at bay"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge") [position of second homeowners] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("The Standard Community Charge") [second home cases, action affecting 1990-91, exemptions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Baker) [Baker thinks government needs to do more to advertise the Charge and reliefs; MT receptive to this] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge in Scotland") ["likely that criticism in Scotland will continue"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Capping") ["a very difficult issue to resolve"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Capital Limit in Scotland") [no special scheme of any kind benefitting payers in Scotlandn in 1989-90] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to John Major ("Budget Debate: Capital Limits") [speaking note on the Scottish dimension] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT (assistance to local authorities) [scope of proposed measure] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Patten-Moore-Lamont) [capital limit for entitlement to benefit] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge") [arrangements for applying charge where domestic property is not main residence] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Scottish Office ("Community Charge Capital Limit in Scotland") [government's position in Scotland could be weakened] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Major PS minute to DTI ("Increased Capital Limits for Means-Tested Benefits") [confusion about number of people who will gain from the measure] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping") ["Capping is not an easy option... there are significant political and presentational disadvantages"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Tony Newton ("Community Charge Capping and Local Authorities' Preparedness") [encouraging local authorities to send out bills in time] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Capping") [Patten thinks "it would be politically unacceptable to back down after all that has been said about the capping threat"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping 1990/91") [use of capping powers, criteria for selecting authorities] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping") [arguments against capping outweigh those in favour] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Dominic Morris minute to Mark Lennox-Boyd (capital disregards) [calcualtions, defence of policy] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 conversation record ("Community Charge") [MT, Major phone conversation: MT - "contrary to earlier expectations, the community charge regime was not bringing about increased accountability...it was necessary to consider radical futher measures"; JM: agrees but states that "important to give no flavour of exactly what possibilities were being looked at"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [control over local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Capping") [capping criteria, arguments against capping] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Paul Gray ("Charge Capping 1990/91") [authorities to be capped, criteria for selecting authorities, size of cap] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Christopher Hawkins ("Capital Limits") [concern about DSS rules] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversations (MT-Major-Lamont-Portillo; joined by Butler, Wilson, Mills) [MT concluded that "the general public were blaming the Government for the high levels of community charge"; suggested proposals for radical review from 1991/92 on] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [legislation to rectify problem in treatment of caravans] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Holiday Caravans & Standard Community Charge") [announcement of short bill, issue of long-stay hospital patients] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Howe PS minute to Paul Gray ("Community Charge Capping") [need to minimise awkward anomalies] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Chris Patten ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [implications of additional burdens, solutions to industry's concerns] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Belstead minute to Chris Patten ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [reluctant to introduce a new, potentially controversial, bill] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Lyell minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [justifiable for legislation to have retrospective effect] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 to Lord President's Office ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [MT content for announcement of short bill] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge") [lowering of the maximum multiplier] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Community Charge Limitation in Wales") [arrangements should not be introduced for Wales in 1990-91] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Community Charge Limitation in Wales") [English and Welsh councils must be measured on a comparable basis] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Anthony Newton (late billing) [impact on income support claimants] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(LG): Community Charge Capping") [capping criteria] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge") [reconsidering the government's position for 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Holiday Caravans and Standard Community Charge") [assurance given to caravan owners, issue of long-stay hospital patients] [released Dec 2016]

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