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PDF 83 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Jenkin, Alison) [MT “very concerned that the Council should have acted in this way, essentially for doctrinaire reasons”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment briefing (“Merseyside”) [“The DoE want to initiate another round of projects with an even bigger budget”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [MT said “External pressures should be allowed to exert themselves and the Government should avoid appearing to issue threats”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Barclay minute to Department of Employment (Liverpool community programme scheme) [proposed MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin PS minute to No.10 (Liverpool finances) [“Members of the Labour Group continue to threaten to rate inadequately in 1984/85”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS (“Liverpool”) [“she feels there might well be circumstances in which the Government should stand aside right up to the breaking of a crisis”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment note for record (meeting with Liverpool City Council) [“the Council was united in its determination to get what it wanted, if necessary by taking to the streets”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bishop of Liverpool letter to Jenkin (situation in Liverpool) [“a generation which has already grown up with no prospect of work”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“agreed that the Government’s objective should be to increase the pressure on Labour Councillors to make a legal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: AGO drafts (statement on local government spending) [government help for Merseyside and Liverpool] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, etc) [“Although an illegal rate could not be ruled out, the more likely outcome was now that no rate would be made at all”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“The River Mersey initiative”) [“convinced of its cumulative benefits and long-term potential”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: AGO draft statement (Liverpool rates) [“A local authority by law owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“the Labour rebels now wanted, not just to prevent an improper rate, but to secure a legal rate before the election on 3 May”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Hugh Taylor letter to No.10 (“Liverpool”) [reponse to “intimidation of so-called rebel councillors”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: John Hamilton letter to MT (Liverpool council budget) [“Liverpool’s plight does not derive and never has derived from circumstances in Liverpool alone”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, etc) [“underlying the crisis over Liverpool’s finances there was an atmosphere of growing violence which was exacerbated by the violence of language in local politics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Trade and Industry briefing (meeting with Liverpool councillors) [“if Liverpool City Council fail to decide on a valid budget and rate as soon as possible, then Liverpool’s problems would not be eased but made far worse”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: MT draft letter to John Hamilton (Liverpool council budget) [“The interests of the people of Liverpool … cannot be advanced by the adoption of an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [speaking note for ministers: objective “must be to encourage common sense to prevail so that the council makes a legal rate at its meeting”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 minute (Liverpool rate problems) [“we are faced with the likelihood that Liverpool will eventually set an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“the meeting did not favour legal action by the Attorney General”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: “HF” note (“Liverpool and local authority creditworthiness”) [options for ministers if Liverpool defaults on debts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (“Liverpool: Commissioners”) [“as many as 12 Commissioners might be needed in order to cover the full range of services provided by the Council”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment briefing (“Liverpool: Local Elections”) [potential influence of results on 1984-5 budget and rate decision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“it would be particularly difficult to change the Government’s stance just now, since that would seem like a direct response to the election results”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin discussion on situation in Liverpool) [MT “said there could be no question of a negotiated compromise”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit minute to Jenkin (Liverpool militants) [need for a firm response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [Jenkin seeking decision on “whether he can offer Liverpool modest assistance from the Urban Programme if that will either clinch a legal budget or put the Government in a better position presentationally”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin briefing for MT (meeting with Liverpool Labour council) [may be “grounds for believing that there is still not a majority on the Council for an unlawful budget, and the Council leaders may suspect this too”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [City Council proposals for schoool reorganisation, local finances] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [financial position of City Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Heseltine minute to MT (Liverpool Commissioners) [“It is essential to consider now a private list of people who could be approached if - against all our wishes and efforts - we are forced to intervene”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (meeting with Liverpool City Council) [plans for 1985-6 budget, possible rate increase agreement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [Jenkin “thinks the Liverpool City Council are genuinely anxious to strike a legal rate at their meeting”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin PS to No10 (Jenkin letter to Liverpool City Council) [“what he had in mind was the provision of a further £10 million”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: David Alton letter to Chester District Auditor (Liverpool City Council budget and rates) [“those responsible for the introduction of an unlawful budget must be held to account for their actions”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin statement (“Liverpool’s rate for 1984/85”) [“Liverpool City Council have wasted many months in totally unnecessary confrontation”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (Liverpool budget and rates) [“It is the City Council that has suffered a humiliating climb down not the Government which has given in to threats of illegal action”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [“we achieved the overriding objective of persuading the City Council to make a lawful rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (Liverpool City Council obligations) [“All the evidence points to a repeat of Liverpool’s challenge over the coming year”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Armstrong minute to Turnbull (“Ministerial Group on Local Authority Rate Setting”) [“To keep under review any problems which may arise affecting individual local authorities, arising from failure to set a local rate for 1985-86 or to fulfil their legal obligations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (“Ministerial Group on Local Authority Rate Setting”) [proposed make up of group] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [“Of particular concern is the build-up of substantial commitments for next year and beyond”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Kenneth Baker statement (Liverpool City Council finances) [“The City Council have completely ignored the breathing space offered by the settlement of this year’s budged in the Summer”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (Liverpool City Council finances) [“there will be no extra money for Liverpool, this year or next, as a result of highwayman tactics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Liverpool City Council: Potential Budget Crisis (MISC 109(84)3 and 4)”) [“Deficit and budget together would require either a massive rate increase, in the range of 150-220 percent or a substantial cut-back in services”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (Liverpool City Council capital expenditure) [proposed warning letter] [released Dec 2014]

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