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PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (capped authorities) [expectation of wild claims that capping will disprupt services] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [proposals for a revaluation of business rates then domestic rates] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to MT (Community Charge Benefit Forms) [problem with long, badly designed forms] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to Northern Ireland Office ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [MT' not convinced revaluation is urgently required] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Lyell minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping 1990/91") [how to rebut claims that capping will disrupt services] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge: Relieving the Burden") [extra transitional relief scheme for 1990, spending limitations for 1991] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Major PS (capital limits in Scotland) [arrangements for introducing proposed scheme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Benefit Forms") [MT accepts local authorities must be responsible for design of own forms] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [local authority spending, burden on taxpayers] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge [Minute from the Secretary of State for the Environment of 3 April]") [decisions to be made on changes to regime for 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Major PS ("Community Charge: Special Payment Scheme") [draft statement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Community Charge") [MT commitment not to claim transitional relief] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Rebates") [raising awareness of the benefit] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS (income levels) [statistics for local authorities] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Surplus Land and Dwellings") [some departments have failed to achieve the vacancy rate targets] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (capping) [Lambeth's revised budget] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (capping) [questions and answers for cabinet discussions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Suprlus Land and Dwellings") [need for better systems and policy for managing government-held land and dwellings] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Moore PS minute to No.10 ("Community Charge Benefit") [methodology for assessing entitlement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to Foreign Office ("Community Charge: Chevening") [possibility that trustees will be responsible for any charge payable] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Baker-Patten-Lamont-Hunt-Butler-Wilson-Wells-Mills) [government "currently in the eye of the storm over the introduction of the community charge"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to Treasury ("RPI and the Community Charge") [attached - MT minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer outlining "concern about the projected RPI figure for April & requesting Treasury to"examine the idea of a community surcharge for those on high incomes"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT minute to John Major (RPI) [inclusion of community charge reliefs; possible surcharge for incomes over £50,000 p.a.] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [outline of basic problems] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (Community Charge Rebates) [could publish information in local newspapers] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute ("Standard Community Charge in Southwark") [impact on MT's property in Dulwich] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Community Charge and the RPI") ["I do not believe you can succeed in trying to change people's perception of inflation by this initiative and I believe you will attract a great deal of discredit if you try"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patten) [discussion of the perceived main problems] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Towards a Community Charge package") [too high, unjust between authorities, unfair between individuals; wants relief for worst hit &'multiplier' based on house value for richest; easing of fiscal stance] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("RPI and the Community Charge") [concern over level of RPI and artificial element created by inclusion of Community Charge] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [Howe paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Rebates: Additional Publicity") [budget to finance advertisements] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Peter Brooke ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [MT's concern that an announcement would give impresion that local government finance policies are getting out of line with the UK] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Draft Minute to the Lord President") [shift from domestic rates to community charge] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: H.M. Saunders letter to No.10 ("Community Charge") [thoughts on present situation and new system] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT minute to Howe ("The Community Charge") ["tough measures [needed] to rein back this unacceptable rate of increase in local authority spending"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont (benefit arrangements) [proposals for additional publicity on rebates, experience in Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Christopher Chope minute to ministers ("You and the Community Charge: Rents") [publicity leaflet for tenants] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments; liability for non-working wives] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Retail Prices Index") [inclusion of the Charge in the Index] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Community Charge") [data on transitional relief proposals] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [policy package, assessment] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure Control") [Patten's proposals for a control system are too complex to get ready for next year] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to MT (local authority finances) [proposals for generating additional income, fairness issue] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind minute to MT ("The Community Charge") ["I thought you might find it helpful to have my views in light of one year's Scottish experience of the community charge"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping and the Retail Prices Index") [the lower capped charges should be included in the index] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [level of charge, local government spending, policy package] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge [Minutes from the Secretary of State for the Environment (23 April) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (24 April)]") [decisions needed to secure better control over local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge: The Question of 'Fairness'") [Patten's proposals for national supplements, but Major thinks not the right way to go] [released Dec 2016]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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