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83 Mar 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Jenkin letter to Brittan ("British Steel's EFL for 1982/83") [latest position] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("BSC Corporate Plan 1983/86") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 May 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Jenkin letter to Ian MacGregor ("BSC Corporate Plan 1983/86") ["I am glad to see that the Plan is designed to continue BSC's progress towards viability... I recognise that the steel market remains difficult... no proposal from BSC about any possible partnership with an American steel company"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 May 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("British Steel Corporation") ["decisions are needed on approving... [BSC's Corporate] Plan... the External Financing Limit for 1983/84, and the hot strip mill investment at Port Talbot. We will be pressed to state our position on these issues during the election campaign: I also need a basis for the notification of aid to BSC up to 1985"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Apr 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Department of Industry briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Questions, 26 April 1983") ["British Steel Corporation: Mr MacGregor's visits to Moscow and Peking"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 May 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: MT letter to Steel Industry Management Association, Scottish Group Branch Secretary (future of Ravenscraig) ["steelmaking will continue at the five integrated plants... no proposal from BSC about any possible partnership with an American steel company"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Prime Minister: FCO briefing for MT (Arab League delegation to UK) [Israel/Palestine; Jordan; defence sales] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson memorandum for NEDC ("Electricity pricing") [summary of Government review & conclusions] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lawson ("E(NI) Discussion of the Review of the British Gas Gas Corporation's Performance and Corporate Plan") [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Mar 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Withstanding strikes in the electricity supply industry") ["... looking forward to seeing Nigel's proposals on the future structure of the industry... I entirely agree with him that we should keep the possibilities for withstanding strikes in this key industry very much under review"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lord Cockfield letter to Baroness Young ("Gas and Electricity Legal Metrology Work ") [proposed transfer of responsibilities from Department of Energy to Department of Trade] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Electricity prices for industry") [conclusions from Central Police Review Staff report; options] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Lord Cockfield ("CEGB response to the MMC Report") [Central Electricity Generating Board/Monopolies & Mergers Commission; "In light of the importance of the MMC's "public interest" finding and the implication of this for the Sizewell Inquiry, I would like to publish this response as soon as possible"; MT advises against simultaneous publication of letter to Chairman of CEGB setting out his objectives "in case it leads to demands for others"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Feb 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan ("New financial target and performance aim for the electricity supply industry (England and Wales)") [details of - and subsquent disagreement between Lawson & Brittan over - proposed target] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Nov 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson minute to MT ("Electricity prices for industry") [comments on the conclusions of the Central Policy Review Staff report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Feb 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas appliance retailing") [review of 1981 decision to require British Gas Corporation withdrawal from gas appliance retailing in light of Lawson proposal] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Jan 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: No.10 letter to Lawson PS (transfer of gas safety responsibilities from Department of Energy to Health and Safety Executive) [MT "believes that the aim should be to ensure a control regime that is as unbureaucratic, cheap and unburdensome to industry as is commensurate with effective regulation"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Mar 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Objectives for the Scottish Electricity Boards") [draft list] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jenkin, Younger, Brittan) [electricity prices for industry: conclusions from Central Policy Review Staff report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Nov 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Brittan letter to Lawson (external financing of the electricity supply industry & financial targets) [details & arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: MT letter to Sir Robin Ibbs (electricity pricing) [proposed price reduction for ICI chlorine manufacturing operations at Runcorn & comparison with European costs] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Jan 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to John Sparrow ("CPRS Report on electricity prices") [Lawson comments on Central Policy Review Staff recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson minute to MT ("Electricity prices") ["It is now clear that the current level... cannot be justified, and that corrective action should be taken as soon as possible"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Nov 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Brittan (electricity prices 1983/84: Scotland) [draft Written Answer] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan (electricity industry) [savings for 1983/84] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Jenkin letter to Lawson ("CPRS report on electricity prices for industry") ["None of these recommendations... are likely to provide enough relief for the electricity-intensive users who are suffering the most severe competitive disadvantage"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office letter to Departments ("Withstanding a strike in the electricity supply industry") [nominations for official study group] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BGC pay negotiations") [terms of settlement] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Brittan, Younger) ["Electricity prices"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Nov 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan ("Standing charges") ["I do not accept that I should be inhibited from seeking to make the electricity and gas industries more responsive to their consumers by some spurious concept of nationalised industry solidarity"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("Public expenditure and electricity prices") [paper on future levels] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Nov 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Electricity prices 1983/84: presentation") [proposed Written Answer] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Aug 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 Note for the File (CPRS work programme) [agenda for John Sparrow meeting with MT] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: MT letter to Ralph Howell MP (NHS Management Inquiry) [have discussed with Norman Fowler your proposal for an inquiry] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Jul 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("NHS Manpower") ["I attach brief speaking notes both on the overall reductions and the particular question of the reductions in numbers of nurses"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Management Inquiry") ["I now enclose... preliminary progress report... which I find most constructive and encouraging"; MT response] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: MT letter to Ralph Howell MP (NHS Management Inquiry) [conduct of the Inquiry; support staff; criticisms of Comptroller & Auditor General] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Mar 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("NHS Management Inquiry") [MT's concern addressed that Inquiry's "main task is to take a searching look at the general management issues"; however MT not persuaded by Fowler's reasoning for rejecting her proposal to add a senior NHS consultant to the Inquiry team] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Jan 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler minute to MT ("Management Inquiry into NHS Manpower") [appointments & remit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 note to MT ("NHS Inquiry") [views of MT & others on remit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler minute to MT ("Management Inquiry into NHS non-Medical staffing") [proposed membership & remit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 May 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Finsberg PS letter to No.10 ("Direct labour in the Health Service: response to a letter in the Financial Times, 6 May 1982") [request for clearance of draft text] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Mar 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler minute to MT ("Manpower and Efficiency in the National Health Service") ["latest estimates... I attach a draft PQ and answer] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Manpower") [interim reply] [declassified Aug 2013] |
81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin) ["NHS Manpower"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Jenkin minute to MT ("NHS Manpower") ["Several Cabinet colleagues have recently expressed critical surprise that NHS staff are growing in numbers... I hope the following explanation will help to clear minds"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Heseltine minute to MT ("NHS Manpower") ["I simply do not know how I can explain to local government that over a single year the manpower employed in the National Health Service has increased by 25,000 or 2.1%"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
80 Jul 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Jenkin letter to Younger (Medical Manpower) ["Report of the Inter-Departmental Steering Group... and the proposed statement on the future intake to the medical schools"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Kenneth Stowe) ["Health Service Pay Dispute"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The NHS Dispute") ["none of the options for attempting a settlement are sufficiently attractive [to trade unions]... The Government should continue to ride out the dispute"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Fowler, Tebbit, Kenneth Stowe, Robert Armstrong) ["National Health Service Pay"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 letter to Home Office ("National Health Service Pay") [Ministerial briefing note] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: MT letter to Foot (NHS Dispute) ["The situation is not such as to require or justify the recall of Parliament... nor do I accept your contention that the pay offers are "inadequate"... there is also another interest to be considered - that of the taxpayer"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Health Service Dispute") [recent developments] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("NHS - staff and beds") ["possible that the journalist [who approached MT] was looking for figures which supported... a simple correlation between NHS manpower and NHS beds... the NHS does not treat beds, but treats patients"; however MT unconvinced by statistics on patients] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar (NHS pay dispute 'day of action': statistics on civil service supportive industrial action) [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing to MT ("Cabinet: NHS pay dispute") [key points] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Baroness Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Sympathetic industrial action") [NHS pay dispute; "I believe that the time has now come to tell all civil servants, formally, of the Government's policy towards sympathetic action"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on the NHS") [summary of reactions in House to Fowler statement on pay dispute/industrial action] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Oct 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Fowler minute to MT (public sector pay) ["concerned at the possible impact on the present NHS pay dispute of decisions which will shortly have to be taken about the pay of some other groups"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Nov 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | National health: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Industrial Affairs: National Health Service Dispute") [[Fowler] will be seeking the Cabinet's agreement to a package of proposals, covering both a two-year pay offer up to 31 March 1984 and permanent pay arrangements thereafter, in respect of the nurses and certain other NHS groups"; proposals/main issues] [declassified Aug 2013] |
87 Nov 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Potter briefing for Chancellor ("Transition to the Community Charge") [briefing for ministerial meeting] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Jun 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Robert Armstrong ("Venice Summit: Press Briefing") ["the presentational problem for us at this Summit is threefold"] [released July 2016] |
87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Bill Galloway (American diplomat who arranged her 1967 US visit) ["I have been eternally grateful for the wonderful experience it gave me"] [released Oct 2017] |
87 Jul 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for PS Chancellor ("Monks and Nuns") [liability for the tax; "must stop exemption becoming a habit"] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Royal Household and Community Charge") [figures] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Local Authority Capital Controls") ["looks promising"] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Sep 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for PS Chancellor ("Fast-track scheme to abolish the rates") [press stories quoting Ridley] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Oct 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Transition to the Community Charge") [Ridley to press MT to abandon four year phasing-in of CC] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Oct 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("E(LF): Community Charge - Transitional Arrangements for England") [Ridley proposals] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Oct 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Tyrie minute for Chancellor ("E(LF) Community Charge - Transitional Arrangements") ["Ridley's plans look even more suicidal than obligatory implementation in 1990-91"] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Oct 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Future of Local Authority Capital Controls") [recommends acceptance of Ridley proposals] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Oct 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley Special Adviser conversation record (Conservative Backbench Environment Committee) [views expressed] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Nov 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge - Transition") ["Ridley's paper ... much as predicted in The Times yesterday morning"] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Nov 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Major minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Transition") [Ridley proposal: "I don't think we should underestimate the attraction it will have for others"] [declassified Oct 2017] |
87 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Potter briefing for PS Chancellor ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [agreed papers for ministerial meeting] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Alex Allan minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Transition") [draft minute to send MT] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Andrew Tyrie minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: A Modified Safety Net") ["Ridley's latest wheeze"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Central Office of Information minute to Paymaster-General ("Community Charge publicity: Opposition criticism") [booklet produced before legislation passed] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Draft minute for Chancellor to send MT ("Community Charge: Transition") [Lawson comments] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Potter briefing for Chancellor ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [material to use in cabinet committee] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Allan minute to Potter ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [Chancellor wants more briefing for use at ministerial meeting] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Alex Allan note on Michael Howard speech ("Michael Howard looks at London and the Community Charge") [dual running "is stated Government policy!"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office paper for ministerial meeting ("Transition to the Community Charge") [detailed briefing for ministerial meeting, with Lawson comments] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Ingham briefing) [press coverage of decision to end dual running] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paymaster General letter to Chancellor (end of dual running) [local candidates will not thank us] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [Lawson's copy - note for future use MT stating no extra money] [released Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to PS Chancellor ("Royal Household and Community Charge") [draft letter to send No.10] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paymaster General note for Chancellor (end of dual running) [quotes Walpole - "They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Howard letter to Nick Scott ("Community Charge - members of religious orders") [Lawson raises concerns] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Ingham briefing) [press coverage of decision to end dual running] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Economic Secretary ("Community Charge: Married and Unmarried Couples") [difference in their treatment] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Katharine Ramsay letter to Sherbourne (state of opinion among Conservative councillors, including poll tax) ["deep unease about the Green Paper proposals ... a 'nightmare' to administer and police ... political perception that it will be unfair"] [released Oct 2017] |
87 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Sherbourne briefing for MT (Conservative Local Government Conference) [timings, speech suggestions, background] [released Oct 2017] |
87 Nov 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Economic Secretary ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel: E(LF) on 26 November") [MOD's bizarre arrangements] [declassified Feb 2018] |
90 Oct 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC/Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Andreotti) [Italian politics; Cossiga state visit; European Council; the Gulf; GATT; CSCE; aid to USSR; South Africa; seat of the institutions; IGCs; EC/US; Gorbachev; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017] |
87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Parliament: Bernard Ingham briefing for MT ("Sunday Telegraph - Bruce Anderson interview") [inner cities, Scotland, community charge, arms control; stress choice is between CC and revaluation] [released 2017] |
87 May 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Katharine Ramsay letter to Brian Griffiths (manifesto draft) [Nick Ridley comments - commit to minimum 20 per cent charge, to blunt Labour attacks] [released Oct 2017] |
87 Jul 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: MT notes (ideas for 1922 speech) [Scotland, North/South divide, Community Charge "same level of service, same level of efficiency will mean same community charge"] [released Oct 2017] |
87 Nov 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury draft briefing for Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [for E(LF) meeting 26 Nov] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Criticisms etc") [case against showing safety net element on demand notices] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Briefing Line") [Treasury unhappy with tenor of DOE arguments against relating CC to ability to pay] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: Monks and Nuns") [only £250,000 at stake, not worth further debate] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Rateable value of business property") [Lawson: "Why was I not alerted to this much sooner?"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("The treatment of the Community Charge in the RPI") [Lawson: "lamentably shoddy note from DE" <Department of Employment>] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [Lawson strongly opposes Ridley's 24 Feb proposal] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Ridley ("Local Government Finance Bill: Fees and Charges") ["very disappointing and puzzling" that bill does not include provisons E(LF) agreed in February] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Ridley ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [rejects his 24 Feb proposal] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Nov 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Moore letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [annoyed that Ridley had circulated a paper on an issue affecting his department without consultation] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chancellor ("Treatment of National Non-Domestic Rate") [Treasury preference for including NNDR in the new planning total, DOE resisting strongly] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke letter to Ridley ("National Non-Domestic Rate: Transition") [broadly supports his 24 Feb proposal, but concerned at level] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chancellor ("New planning total and NNDR (National Non-Domestic Rate)") [possible compromise with Ridley] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Feb 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chancellor ("New planning total and NNDR (National Non-Domestic Rate)") [draft for Lawson to send Ridley] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Dec 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Parliamentary situation) [conversation with Murdo (Maclean)] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Dec 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury briefing for Financial Secretary ("L Committee: Local Government Finance Bill") [cabinet committee meeting] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Dec 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nick Scott letter to Ridley ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel") [E(LF) discussion] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 letter to PS DHSS ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel") [MT's dissent from Scott's view] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Dec 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Tyrie minute for Paymaster General ("Community Charge: criticisms and political blackspots") [anticipated attacks from Conservative supporters] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [need for such disclosure] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Lawson ("Non-domestic revaluations: forecasts") [asks Treasury permission to update Inland Revenue forecasts and publish a summary] [declassified Feb 2018] |
90 Oct 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | European Council: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("European Council: European Monetary Union") [must stick to line that Hard Ecu COULD evolve into a single currency] [released Feb 2020] |
88 Mar 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind minute for MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [qualified agreement with Ridley] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury briefing for Chief Secretary ("Non-domestic rate transition") [meeting with Ridley this afternoon] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Major-Ridley) ["National non-domestic rate: transition"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Lawson ("Valuation for rating: the 'Addis' and 'Cakebread' case") [agree Ridley's plan to amend Local Government Finance Bill to reverse court decisions, but refuse to compensate for losses] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lawson letter to Ridley ("Valuation for rating: the 'Addis' and 'Cakebread' case") [agrees plan to amend Local Government Finance Bill to reverse court decisions, but not compensation proposals] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Lawson ("Valuation for rating: the 'Addis' and 'Cakebread' case") [seeks agreement to amend Local Government Finance Bill to reverse court decisions] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury note for APS Chancellor (Non-domestic rate transition) [amended DoE press line to counter stories Chancellor's power to uprate NNDR will increase CC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute for MT ("The Community Charge: members of religious orders") [agrees common position] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chief Secretary ("A new planning total") [resolving questions with Department of the Environment before consulting other departments] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Chief Secretary ("National non-domestic rate transition") [standing committee debate on transition "went fairly well", but may need special help for small businesses] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to John Moore ("Community Charge: attachment of benefit") [mechanisms] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute ("The budget and funding of local authorities") [Michael Howard mis-statement in Commons debate] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Lawson ("The treatment of the community charge in the RPI") [Lawson: "I am astonished by this submission"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: possible DOE concessions") [Tyrie warning that some Mates supporters "led to believe that concessions might be forthcoming"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant settlement for England") [suggested approach] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Lawson ("E(LF): Non-domestic rate transition and dual running") ["half-baked proposal put together hurriedly by DOE officials to meet a supposed political need"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Lawson ("Community Charge rebates") [Mates amendment - sympathy for less well-off] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Lawson ("Community Charge rebates") [concessions for Report Stage] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peretz minute for PS Chancellor ("Community Charge and the RPI: Indexed Gilts") [advice sought from the law officers] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Gray letter to PS Michael Howard (figures for relative household contribution to local authority spending) [asks chapter and verse for Howard claim that top 10 percent will pay about 15 times more than bottom 10] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: APS Lawson minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant for England") ["essential to be as tough as possible on provision"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: APS Lawson minute for Culpin ("Housing Benefit and Unemployment/Poverty Traps") ["this is a benefit and not a tax/NIC problem ... an inescapable consequence of targeting benefit on the neediest"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley PS letter to Gray ("Community Charge rebates") [changes to taper which Ridley wishes to suggest at cabinet tomorrow] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Community Charge and the Budget") [provides material for Howard to verify to No.10 claim that top 10 percent will pay about 15 times more than bottom 10] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Financial Secretary ("Non-domestic rate transition") [business seeking reassurance] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lawson letter to Ridley ("Community Charge rebates") [changes to taper which he could live with] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chief Secretary minute for Lawson ("Community Charge rebates") ["This is a major retreat", but a "concession ... has political merits since it will, I think, purchase the bill"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cropper note for Lawson ("Chancellor") [Ridley's line on community charge as a tax; leak of No.10 document] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Phillips, Turnbull, Potter) ["1989-90 Rate Support Grant for England"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("LA [Local Authority] Capital Controls") [measures to block barter and leaseback deals] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of phone conversation (Lawson - Ridley) [National non-domestic rate] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("Dual Running: Rates and the Community Charge") [discussions with MPs for Westminster and Kensington confirm exclusion from dual running] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant Settlement for England") [follow up to meeting] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson - senior Treasury officials) ["RPI and the Community Charge: Index-Linked Gilts"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative party: Archie Hamilton record of conversation (Conservative Backbench Environment Committee) [usual suspects object, but Ridley and Howard's performance "will have stopped the rot going any further"] [released 2017] |
88 May 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Allan minute for Lawson ("RSG Settlement 1989-90") [personal thoughts on tactics - need to be "as mean as possible on provision" because won't be able to shift Ridley much on grant percentage] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Potter minute for Chief Secretary ("RSG Settlement 1989-90") [Ridley draft paper for E(LA)] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nick Scott letter to Ridley ("Rebating Collective Community Charge Contributions") [complexity] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Scholar letter to Eddie George ("Indexed-linked gilts and the RPI") [seeks Bank view of three options] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Chief Secretary and senior officials) ["RSG settlement 1989-90: tactics"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Allan minute for PS Chief Secretary ("1989-90 RSG Settlement") [commitments given as to what councils would be expected to raise in first year of CC, 1990-91] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 May 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant Settlement for England") [working with DOE on numbers for bilateral with Ridley on 7 Jun] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Environment: discussion on 1989-90 RSG Settlement") [Lawson: "Essential to reach satisfactory bilateral understanding with Mr Ridley before E(LA)"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley and Howard) ["Discussion of 1989-90 RSG settlement"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("Local Authority Capital Expenditure and Finance") [draft consultation document] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant Settlement") ["We do not believe the [Ridley] proposal represents a good deal for the Treasury"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge: Churches") [concession] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley) ["1989-90 Rate Support Grant settlement"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Capital: Draft consultation paper") [MT proposal that authorities with surplus capital should be permitted to lend it to other authorities in their area] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Nick Ridley ("Local Authority Capital Control Regime") [MT proposal that authorities with surplus capital should be permitted to lend it to other authorities in their area] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute ("Prospects for Local Authority Finances") [financial overview of introduction of Community Charge] [declassified Feb 2018] |
86 Dec 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Local government: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 ("Islington's Debt") [Norgrove - "I think I had better move house!"; MT - "Not to Southwark!"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
87 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local government: Douglas Hurd letter to Nick Ridley ("Local Government Bill: Homosexuality Amendment") [welcomes principle but warns against criminalising opinion] [declassified Oct 2016] |
88 Jun 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Bank of England letter to Treasury ("Index-linked gilts and the RPI") [issue arising from replacement of rates by community charge] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Closedown of RSG system: letter to Environment Secretary") [focus on loophole in capital consultation document; Lawson "Why was this not spotted before?"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley plus officials) ["Rate Support Grant/Capital Controls"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Ridley ("Local Authority Capital: Consultation Document") [loophole in capital consultation document requires urgent discussion] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury briefing for Chief Secretary ("Meeting with the Environment Secretary") [loophole in capital consultation document] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Chief Secretary (Local Authority Capital: Consultation Document) ["The issues you have identified are not new"; urges not delaying publication] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Allan minute for Chancellor ("Local Government Finance") [dilemma in dealing with closedown of RSG system] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute for MT ("Dual running of domestic rates and the community charge in London") [argues for dropping it; MT and other E(LF) members agree] [declassified Feb 2018] |
84 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Local government”) [urges ministerial meeting to plan for "coming battles with local government"] [declassified 2014] |
84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Redwood briefing for MT (“Local government” - ministerial meeting) ["some kind of poll tax ... most likely to meet the requirements of accountability and visibility"] [declassified 2014] |
84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Biffen, Joseph, Ridley, Younger, Rees etc.) [“Local government policies” - Jenkin to announce government "looking at the most serious inequities and deficiencies of the system but without giving this the status of a review"] [declassified 2014] |
88 Jun 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("RSG Settlement and Related Matters") [threatened surge in local authority spending and government grant as we move from existing control systems] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Chief Secretary and senior officials) ["RSG Settlement and Related Matters"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Dual running of domestic rates and the community charge in London") [accept end of dual running on condition no new funds] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("RSG, 1989-90 and LA Capital Receipts") [developments since meeting with Chancellor] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("The Community Charge, the RPI and Indexed-Linked Gilts") [Bank of England's response; next steps; time presses] [declassified Feb 2018] |
83 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade despatch to FCO ("Visit of the Yugoslav Prime Minister to Britain: 15-18 November") [account of the visit] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [steering brief, non-aligned movement, East/West, Southern Africa, Indo-China, Middle East, arms control, bilateral defence, developing countries, Balkans, EC, bilateral including cultural relations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [East-West relations; non-alignment; arms control; Yugoslav economy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute to FCO ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [Mrs Planinc's speech during lunch at No.10] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [the Yugoslav delegation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [programme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
82 Dec 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute to FCO ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [longer period for talks before lunch] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of the Yugoslav Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute for MT ('Intepreters') [MT worried interpreters not getting a chance to eat] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade telegram to FCO ("Mrs Planinc") [Mr Planinc will be coming to the UK with his wife] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade telegram to FCO ("Visit of the Yugoslav Prime Minister to Britain 15-18 November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc) [tête-à-tête: East/West, non-alignment, arms race, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia's economy & copies of speeches made at lunch] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute (visit of Yugoslav PM Milka Planinc) [timetable, engagements] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [MT agrees to give an interview to RTV Belgrade] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Channon, etc - Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc) [plenary: world economic situation, international debt, Yugoslav economy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 May 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: MT message for Yugoslav Prime Minister ("Mrs Planinc's Visit") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Jan 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade telegram to FCO ("Proposed Visit by Yugoslav Prime Minister") ["Mrs Planinc accepts with pleasure"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | MT/security: FCO Security Department minute ("Security Brief for Prime Minister's Visit to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 23-30 November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: John Birch minute for Coles ("Visit of the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia") [briefing for the representatives of the EC in London] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: DTI briefing for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [anti-dumping] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: No.10 minute for Coles (Yugoslav Prime Minister's visit: toasts) [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [Mrs. Planinc's speech at lunch] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [draft text of the speech during lunch at No.10] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Jun 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Cancellation of Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Mar 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Treasury minute to FCO ("Visit by Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Feb 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit by Yugoslav Prime Minister: May 1983") [MT suggests some evening entertainment] [declassified Jan 2014] |
82 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Yugoslavia's invitation to Prime Minister") [invitation to Mrs Planinc to visit the UK] [declassified Jan 2014] |
82 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Proposed Visit to the UK by the Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014] |
82 Nov 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Yugoslavia: Coles minute to FCO ("Proposed Visit to the UK by the Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014] |
88 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation ("The Community Charge, the RPI and Indexed-Linked Gilts") ["The Community Charge, the RPI and Indexed-Linked Gilts" - next steps agreed] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Rate Support Grant, 1989-90 and Capital Receipts") [developments following this morning's meeting with Ridley] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley, Howard plus officials) ["Rate Support Grant Settlement/Capital Controls"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chief Secretary record of conversation (Major - Ridley, Howard) ["Rate Support Grant, 1989-90 and Capital Receipts" - agreement reached; Lawson - "So far so good. Vital now that this be made to stick"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute for MT ("Dual running: rates and the community charge") ["some grounds for cautious optimism" about London charges; Treasury sceptical] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Precept limitation of ILEA in 1989-90" plus rate capping) [Lawson: "all highly unsatisfactory ... 'rate'-cap far more vigorously in 1990-91"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley, Howard plus officials) ["1989-90 RSG Settlement/Capital Controls"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: PS Chancellor minute to PS Chief Secretary ("RSG 1989-90 and Capital Receipts") [Lawson's view - satisfactory outcome, vital it be made to stick] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury briefing for Chief Secretary ("RSG 1989-90 and Capital Receipts") [No.10 meeting, support Ridley's view that urgent closedown needed] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("1989-90 RSG Settlement") [loophole requires early action to close] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Ridley, Lawson, Major, Wakeham, Parkinson; officials) ["1989-90 RSG Settlement" - agreed loophole requires early action to close, subject to legal advice] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("RSG Settlement: Presentation of DOE statement") [concern at strength of pressure to make further concessions] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Attorney-General letter to Ridley ("1989/90 RSG Settlement") [comforting advice on DOE proposal] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("1989-90 RSG Settlement") [increase in GDP deflator from 4 to 4.5 per cent - Major wants to tell colleagues this evening] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lord Young to Chief Secretary ("English Estates' Future Strategy") [development programme in Assisted Areas] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Rate Support Grant Bill") [to be taken in overspill] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("The Community Charge, the RPI and Indexed-Linked Gilts") [Solicitor-General's advice] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Jul 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Fowler letter to Chancellor ("Community Charge - RPI") [plans to consult RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("Community Charge - RPI") [consulting RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("Local Authority Bank Deposits and the LABR") [doubts about the figures] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Home Secretary (capitalising specific grants to local authorities) [in principle agreed; detailed issues] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: DHSS letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [next steps] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Fowler ("Community Charge - RPI") ["I am in no doubt the Community Charge should be in the RPI"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office letter to PS Fowler ("Community Charge - RPI") [Lawson: "A singularly inept and unhelpful letter"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Aug 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: MT letter to President Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (Business Rates in Scotland) [do not doubt resolve, but be realistic about timing] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Bank of England letter to Treasury ("Indexed-Linked Gilts and the RPI") [no change in Bank's view] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: Specific Grant for Preparation Costs") [case for] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley letter to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [MT wanted further consideration with decision on 9 September] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Economic Secretary, senior officials) ["Community Charge and RPI" - decision to wait for Bank letter] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("The RPI - abolition of domestic rates") [approach to RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("The RPI and the Community Charge") [next steps] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Inland Revenue Valuations Office minute to Treasury ("Rating revaluation: preliminary results of exercise: transitional arrangements") [first sight of the figures] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("RPI - abolition of domestic rates") [reply to Fowler re: approach to RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("RPI - abolition of domestic rates") [Lawson letter to Fowler on RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Allan minute to Inland Revenue Valuations Office ("Rating revaluation: preliminary results of exercise: transitional arrangements") [Lawson seeks more information on heavy losers] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Belstead letter to Nick Ridley ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [will be "very real disappointment" in the Lords at options] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("RPI and the Community Charge") [journalist has guessed RPIAC is meeting to decide whether CC should be included in RPI] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke letter to Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: Specific Grant for Preparation Costs") [supports Ridley] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Principal PS Chancellor ("The Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee") [arrangements for press notice convening RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("Rating revaluation: preliminary results of exercise: transitional arrangements") [comment on big losers; Lawson concerned there should be no impact on spending round] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 2 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: DHSS letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Deductions from Benefit") [DHSS demands to control the regulations] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("Indexed-linked Gilts and the RPI") [Bank and Treasury getting different legal advice; Allan: "clearly need to get a move on"; Lawson: 'right'] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("Indexed-linked Gilts and the RPI") [preferred Option B not possible; necessity therefore of government light touch with RPIAC] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) ["Community Charge and the RPI: Indexed Gilts" - MT agrees Lawson advice] [released Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Alex Allan note to Lawson ('Ch' - Community Charge and the RPI: Indexed Gilts) [MT wanting option A, involving 4 percent cut in RPI; "This seems loony"] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Community Charge: Publicity") [Ingham suggests more vigorous publicity campaign than Ridley envisages; MT agrees] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Sep 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Specific Grant for Preparation Costs") [MT opts to stay out of the argument between Ridley and Major] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Dec 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The format of Community Charge bills") [revisions by Ridley following comments] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Dec 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray note for the record ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Contractor's Basis") [decision not to submit papers to MT at this stage; bring forward second week of Jan] [released Feb 2016] |
87 Nov 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lawson minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transition") [revised Ridley proposals "still leave us exposed to unacceptable political risks"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
79 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Civil Service: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 1st (freeze on Civil Service manpower) [extract with MT's annotations] [declassified 2009] |
88 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Local Authority current expenditure provision: revised GDP deflator") [revision to 5 percent for 1989-90] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of Employment paper for RPIAC ("Effect of the abolition of local authority rates on the construction of the Retail Prices Index" - RPIAC(88)2) [Allan: "outrageous it was not cleared at ministerial level"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("The Community Charge and the RPI Advisory Committee") [options for government representatives on RPIAC - "say as little as possible" Lawson's preference] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Nov 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("Non-domestic rating: revaluation effects and transitional arrangements") [detail of self-financing scheme] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: PS Nick Ridley to PS Chief Whip ("Rate Support Grant Settlment 1989/90") [arrangements for announcement] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Sep 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Inland Revenue Valuation Office minute to Chancellor ("Rating revaluation: preliminary results of exercise: transitional arrangements") [further information on big losers; Allan: "Not v. comfortable at all"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Inland Revenue Valuation Office minute to Chancellor ("Revaluation effects & transitional arrangements report for England & Wales") [report ready; Lawson: "circulation as narrow as possible"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("Simplified Needs Assessment") [basis in new system] [declassified Feb 2018] |
88 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Arrangements") [review of safety net and grant distribution arrangements since decision to drop dual-running in London] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Nov 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Uniform Business Rate and Revaluation: Transitional Arrangements") [detailed proposals] [released Feb 2016] |
87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to No 10 ("The New Grant System") [format of the proposed community charge demand note] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Rebates") [concession on taper proposal to counter Mates amendment] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Gray letter to PS Michael Howard (figures for relative household contribution to local authority spending) [asks chapter and verse for Howard claim that top 10 percent will pay about 15 times more than bottom 10] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Ridley-Wakeham-Waddington) [agreed concessions on rebate taper to counter Mates amendment] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Apr 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Conservative Research Department briefing ("A Three Tiered Community Charge" and "The Local Government Finance Bill") [released Feb 2016] |
88 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Andrew Wells minute to Richard Wilson ("Community Charge: Deductions from Benefit") [Treasury's views] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Arrangements") [further look at transition plans since June decision to drop dual-running in London] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [limits of exemption] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [limits of exemption] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("Community Charge: Specific Grant for Preparation Costs") [support to charging authorities] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Specific Grant for Preparation Costs") [presentational advantages] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Aug 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: British Chambers of Commerce letter to MT (Uniform Business Rate) [harmonisation of valuation practices] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Oct 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Community Charge and the RPI") [some considerable sensitivities here] [released Feb 2016] |
88 Oct 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Community Charge and the RPI: Indexed Gilts") [discussion of implications with Bank of England] [released Feb 2016] |
87 Jan 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (Peter Fry-MT) [Northamptonshire County Council] [released Feb 2016] |
87 Jul 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transitional Arrangements") [starting level for the charge, phasing out of the rates, special arrangements for London] [released Feb 2016] |
87 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [decision to abandon "dual running"] [released Feb 2016] |
90 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Standard Spending Distribution and Standard Spending Assessments") [composition of SSAs] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Chris Patten ("Pensions Ombudsman: Local Government Superannuation Scheme") [proposed regulations] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Shares Spending Distribution Between Service Shares") [officials' suggestions] [released July 2017] |
90 Jun 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Norman Lamont ("PES 1990: English Local Authority Block: Capital Receipts Taken into Account") [content with proposals] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Future Service Share Methodology") [teachers' pay settlement] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to Chris Patten ("New Burdens on Local Government") [health and safety demands on local government] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Tony Newton ("Pensions Ombudsman: Local Government Superannuation Scheme") [oversight of maladministration] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("Welsh RSG Settlement") [parity of treatment for Scotland] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Standard Spending Distribution Between Services") [share for education services] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report 1989/90") [concerns about local authorities who lost out in the way debt has been handled] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Michael Howard (HSC work) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lamont PS minute to Rifkind PS ("Local Authority Finance: Scotland") [amendments to draft Rifkind announcement] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("AEF Settlement for 1991-92") [proposals for Scotland] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to John Major ("Local Authority Pay") [central government involvement in pay negotiations] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to Michael Portillo (New Burdens on Local Government) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Lamont PS ("Local Authority Finance: Scotland") [draft Rifkind announcement] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [possible outcomes of Lords' judgment on Hammersmith case] [released July 2017] |
90 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Norman Lamont ("LA Revenue: Arrangements for Handling the 1990 Survey") [a July settlement is preferable] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("New Burdens on Local Government") [impact of central government initiatives] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [implications of government policy for local authority spending] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT (Welsh local government finance settlement) [parity with Scotland] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Governor of the Bank of England letter to John Major ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [need for a government statement following Lords' provisional judgment] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Merseyside) [police will be staging major operation; allegations against the city council] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Hammersmith & Fulham: House of Lords Case") [banks have no case, all local authority swap deals are ultra vires] [released July 2017] |
90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("The Public Works Loan Board") [lending to local authorities] [released July 2017] |
90 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("1991/2 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [significant changes to remit for discussions with authorities] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Financial Assets and Capital Spending") [proposal to legislate to require authorities to use reserved receipts to repay debt] [released July 2017] |
90 Jun 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit ("Local Government: Some Longer-Term Issues") [MT concerned that the charge "would provide an insufficiently buoyant source of local revenue"] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: Scotland") [final version of Rifkind's AEF statement] [released July 2017] |
90 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Functions of Local Authorities") [need to look at additional responsibilities being imposed, possibility of a larger review] [released July 2017] |
90 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robin Butler ("Functions of Local Authorities") [additional burdens on authorities, existing functions of authorities] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 minute ("Interest Rate Swaps - The Hammersmith and Fulham Case") [next step is for courts to establish what in principle can be enforced] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Standard Spending Assessments for 1991-92") [endorses Patten's proposals for changes in the assessments] [released July 2017] |
90 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: Arrangements for Handling the 1990 Survey") [timetable and information for decisions] [released July 2017] |
90 Sep 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [suggestions for keeping pressures of policy on local authority spending in check] [released July 2017] |
90 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("New Burdens on Local Government") [lists of central government initiatives] [released July 2017] |
90 Aug 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Financial Assets") [proposed legislation to require authorities to redeem debt] [released July 2017] |
90 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor ("1991-92 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [changes sought by local authority associations] [released July 2017] |
90 Aug 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("New Burdens on Local Government") [additional demands on local government should be kept to a minimum] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (TSS for 1991-92) [proposals for service split] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [proposed revisions] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor ("New Burdens on Local Government") [lists of central government initiatives] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("1991 Community Charge Levels in Scotland") [encourage local authorities to collect sums due, difficulties in applying capping powers to reduce charges inflated by failure to collect revenue] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Malcolm Rifkind (capping in Scotland) [possible legislative timetable, can't tack onto the end of the "Lambeth Bill"] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Privy Council Office record of conversation (MacGregor-Renton) [proposal to extend exemption to school leavers] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Chris Patten (consequences of non-payment) [growing concern about the problem in Scotland] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (Student Gap) [proposal to widen the exemption to school leavers] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Education and Community Charge") [Helestine's proposals would cause major upheaval for local authorities] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Chris Patten (capping in Scotland) [Rifkind's proposal to add to the "Lambeth" bill provisions for reducing charge levels inflated by under-collecction in earlier years] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lamont PS record of conversation ("Scottish AEF for 1991-92: The RSG/NDRI Split") [indexation of Scottish business rates] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("1991-92 AEF for Scotland: RSG/NDRI Split") [difference of treatment between Scotland and England/Wales] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Scottish AEF for 1991-92: The RSG/NDRI Split") [Exchequer contribution to cost of reducing business rate burden in Scotland] [released July 2017] |
90 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") [potential issues with legislation, difficulties with collection] [released July 2017] |
90 Oct 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92 Charge-Capping") [opposed to any dilution of the criteria] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Waddington ("Community Charge Capping 1991/92") [SSAs for fire authorities] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Barry Potter ("Chargecapping") [Welsh proposals, police and fire authorities, Scotland] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [proposals on charge capping] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Moore PS minute to Patten PS ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [de minimis rule] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Charge Capping, 1991-92") [Welsh arrangements, fire services] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten letter to colleagues (distribution of grant to local authorities) [political points] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Aug 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Charge-Capping 1991-92") [deterrent effect] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Lilley minute to Chris Patten (Community Charge Capping 1991/92) [a firm line must be taken] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten (Charge Capping) [police and fire authorities] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS note to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance Statement") [final version] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: MacGregor PS minute to Patten PS ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [additional educational needs factor] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Potter minute to Professor Griffiths ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap in government's capping powers] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation to ensure full benefit of reduction is passed on] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School-Leavers") [address issue with short bill] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge 1991/92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on school provisions] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge: Charge Capping, 1991-92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers) ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage 1991-92") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rates") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge 1991-92") [RSG settlement, use of capping powers] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on schools] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Community Charge: Impact of Collection Rates") [action to raise collection rates] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [courts have upheld council's interpretation of the law] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Charge Capping") [authorities setting charges not reflecting reductions in their budgets] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("The Community Charge") [two main worries with proposed settlement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("The Community Charge") [capping criteria] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Community Charge: Oral Statement by Mr. Patten") [key messages not highlighted until the end] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Statement on Community Charge Review and RSG Settlement") [final version] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage") [case for full indexation] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Hunt (consultation papers) [job-related accommodation] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("E(LG): The Community Charge") [proposed settlement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: England") [help for those in granny flats] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Oral Statement on Community Charge Review and RSG Settlement for England 1991-92") [MT's revisions] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Sep 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report for 1989-90") [should minimise the numbre of changes] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rate Poundages") [transitional arrangements for SMEs] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Sep 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Michael Portillo ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [should be clear and simple] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [case for indexation] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke briefing to MT ("Community Care") [will hinder not help us if we cancel plans] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lyell PS minute to Patten PS ("Local Authority Finance: England July Statement") [standard spending assessments] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 8 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Howell letter to Chris Patten (Guildford Borough and Surrey County Councils) [figures used are inaccurate] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Sep 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [should be simpler and more understandable] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Non-Domestic Rate Poundage for 1991-92") [indexation of the multiplier] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke briefing to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [must not set local government impossible targets] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nicholas Lyell minute to MT ("Community Charge") [use of capping powers] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lamont PS minute to Howe PS ("Local Authority Grant Settlement for 1991-92") [timing of statement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Howe PS ("Local Authority Grant Settlement for 1991/92") [announcement on preliminary proposals] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor (school leavers) [comparatively unfair treatment] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping: Impact on School Budgets") [next year's capping exercise to be more extensive] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991/92") [impact on school budgets] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Barry Potter ("Community Charge: Non-Collection") [Audit Commission report] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Cope minute to Chris Patten ("Private Residential Homes: Liability for Rates") [local authorities unhappy at loss of revenue] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: MT letter to Baroness Sharples (Community Charge) [fairer than the old rating system] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [protection for SMEs] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Sep 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Format of the Community Charge Bill") [options for format] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge") [average charge will be well above £400] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of Environment note ("Community Charge: Collection") [impact of non-collection] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to No 10 ("Local Authority Finance: 1991/92") [criteria for charge capping] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92: Wales") [agreement with local authority associations] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Review") [Scottish consequences] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Sep 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Duncan Bray (new system) [fairer and more accountable method of charging for local services] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Major-Lamont) [charge capping powers and criteria] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92") [likely to lead to criticism that authorities will escape capping by cutting education services] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit (RPI) [suggests putting this point to MT later] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: The Community Charge Share") [largest share of local government finance comes from central government] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Robin Butler briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Local Government Finance: The July Statement") [1990-91 settlement, Community Charge review] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Aug 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of Environment letter to County Councils ("Community Charge Bill") [to be made clearer] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure, Aggregate External Finance and Related Measures 1991/92: England [E(LG) (90)3]") [proposed settlement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure and AEF 1991-92") [not yet home and dry with an average community charge] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Review") [final statement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping") [final caps for each authority, publicity] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping") [caps for all but three proposed authorities are achievable] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Howe PS ("Community Charge Capping: Legal Action by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough and Council and Others") [judicial review proceedings] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Community Charge") [statistics on use of capping powers, local authority spending] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [aim to prevent the charge "from continuing as the dominant political issue"] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Conditions") [whether to proceed with conditions for 1990/91] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [enhanced capping regime, next year's grant settlement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [capping, levels of spending, negotiations on TSS and AEF] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [proposed settlement for TTS, AEF, transitional relief] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("The Community Charge - Latest Developments") [enhancing capping and referenda approach] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Community Charge") [Lyell's thoughts on court decision on charge capping] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [options on cash limits, income limits] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [cash limits on local authorities, safety valve, transitional relief] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [referendum, enhanced capping regime, tight settlement for grants] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [cash limit approach, politics of the legislation] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("The Community Charge: New Developments") [legislation on enhancing capping] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [grants, transitional relief] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [Patten unhappy at prospects of cash limits] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [income limits, restraints on local government spending] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office note ("The Community Charge. Enhanced Community Charge Capping Coupled with Referendums") [options for use of stronger capping powers that could be applied to more authorities] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office note ("The Community Charge") [controlling local authority spending] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Earl of Arran minute to David Hunt (local government finance) [making special payments to alleviate problems caused by introduction of new system] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT (latest figures) [prospects for capping spending] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (legislation package) [caution colleagues against suggesting anything they do or do not want to see in the final package] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [basic problem of how to control local authority spending] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit (officials' report) [idea of a higher rate of levy] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Possible Community Charge Legislation: Implications for Legislative Programme") ["impractical to try to rush through the drafting and enactment of such a complex and contentious measure"] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to MT ("Charge Capping") [proposals to impose conditions on authorities following the raising of initial caps] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Brooke minute to Chris Patten ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [distinction between domestic and business revaluation, difficulty of making an announcement] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [implementing a system of income limits under existing powers] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to MT ("Charge Capping") [child protection services in Southwark] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Forum for Discussion") [members of cabinet groups] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Potter ("Mr Heseltine's Community Charge Proposals") [special elections, surcharge, safety net] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 letter to Law Officers Department ("Community Charge") [MT surprised at Solicitor-General's new advice that existing capping powers could be used so extensively] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Newton PS minute to No 10 ("Allowance in Income Support for Minimum Contribution to the Community Charge") [MT's commitments on rebates] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to No.10 ("Contributions to Local Services") [contributions by the rich] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Solicitor-General minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [judgments in capping cases, ability of government to implement policies] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Charge Capping Case") [judicial review judgment "a resounding victory for the Government"] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Patten-Lamont-Lyell-Renton-Portillo) [use of existing powers versus enhanced capping powers coupled with referenda] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping") [potential implications for final caps on delivery of education] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Potter ("Community Charge (Caravans)") [proposals to rectify position for holiday caravans] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [valuation of caravans has not been harmonised between Scotland England] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Community Charge Review") [resistence in Whitehall to idea of new legislation on income limits in time for next year] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("The Community Charge: Next Action") [keeping down local authority spending, public relations on high charges, prolonging the controversy] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Baker-Rifkind-Wakenham-Patten-Hunt-Lamont) [system of limits on income of local authorities with largest budgets] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Potter ("Community Charge: Derogation etc") [likely that what is proposed will set income levels as high as unchanged policies] [released Dec 2016] |
90 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 letter to Newton PS ("Community Charge Benefits") [detailed comments by MT on advertising to encourage people to claim benefits] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to No.10 ("Non-Collection of the Community Charge") [only have anecdotal figures at present] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (Community Charge Rebates) [could publish information in local newspapers] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to David Hunt ("Community Charge and US Servicemen") [feeling in Suffolk; reluctant that special help should be given to deal with this localised problem] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (capped authorities) [expectation of wild claims that capping will disprupt services] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Rebates: Additional Publicity") [budget to finance advertisements] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Norman Lamont (publicity) [information on the Community Charge Benefit] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (capping) [Lambeth's revised budget] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 4 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [level of charge, local government spending, policy package] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [local authority spending, burden on taxpayers] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Major PS (capital limits in Scotland) [arrangements for introducing proposed scheme] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Rebates") [raising awareness of the benefit] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (capping) [questions and answers for cabinet discussions] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Major minute to MT (local authority finances) [proposals for generating additional income, fairness issue] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Community Charge") [data on transitional relief proposals] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [policy package, assessment] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments] [released Dec 2016] |
90 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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] |
90 Apr 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS (income levels) [statistics for local authorities] [released Dec 2016] |
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