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PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Norgrove minute for Michael Alison (Widdicombe Inquiry into the conduct of local authority business) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (Michael Heseltine) [denied access to restricted circulation E(LF) papers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger letter to Kenneth Baker ("Sale of local authority mortgages") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("E(LF)(85)19: Local Authority capital expenditure control") ["...how the present system of capital control on net expenditure might be modified..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local Authority capital expenditure controls") ["...implications for a reformed system... of the assurances given in the past to local authorities about use of capital receipts..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local governement finance: specific grants") [Lawson-chaired working group interim report on "...the role and extent of specific grants in funding local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils") ["...now evidence of concerted efforts to spend as much as possible... before abolition... In the case of the GLC... giving money to organisations... involved in perpetuating the policies of the GLC... we must introduce legislation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Biffen, Mayhew, MacGregor, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding") [consideration of measures to curb and control spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, MacGregor, Mayhew, Baker, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1986/87) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local authority capital expenditure") ["...proposals... in the Green Paper on Local Government Finance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Biffen PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lynda Chalker letter to Tony Banks MP (taxicard scheme) [addressing her comments made in Parliament on proposed GLC revisions to the scheme and its cost-effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition: residuary bodies") [Chairmanship of the Merseyside Residuary Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Consultative Council on local government finance: expenditure groups' report") [improvement of existing arrangement] [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 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [statement to Parliament to launch Green Paper: "We are proposing... the replacement of rates with a flat-rate community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Scottish approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Welsh approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Local Authority capital expenditure control") [draft consultation paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986") [Policy Unit: "The 1986-87 settlement turned out so badly because so many levers were pulled to help London... it is the rates for 1987-88 on which the General Election is likely to be fought"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to Wakeham PS ("Paying for Local Government: briefing notes") ["...wish to keep up the momentum on the successful presentation of the Government's proposals on rating reform..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Government Bill, 1986-87 session") [timing of Bill's introduction to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Conservative MPs letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Government Bill") ["Many of us who worked on this Bill through Committee are deeply concerned about the fundamental changes which have been made by the Lords... will mean the death knell for Conservative politics in every industrial centre"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Authority contracting out") ["... to extend competition in the provision of local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986/7: legal challenge by Birmingham City Council") ["...essential to introduce a short piece of legislation during this session of Parliament..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Deferred Purchase Schemes") ["...I [and MT are]... increasingly concerned about the way in which some local authories are using [DPSs] to [flout] both our capital and current control systems"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC/MCCs") [MT offers Baker personal congratulations: "This has been a major achievement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") ["...Government initiatives... which will have resource implications for local government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1986 public expenditure round") ["...consideration of individual local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Local authority spending and rate support grant") ["...the major problem in this year's public expenditure survey"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MacGregor ("Local authority capital expenditure controls") [responses to Green Paper giving rise to need for further consideration] [declassified Dec 2014]
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