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PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to Andrew Turnbull ("DOE brief on GLC Housing") [Young's brief illustrates why the abolition strategy has run into difficulty] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Councillor Alan Greengross (abolition of the GLC) [rejects Greengross's proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Community Charge: Alison record of conversation (MT - Scottish Conservative chairman) [“Goold came to express his great anxiety about the damage to the Conservative Party which is likely to result from Scottish rating revaluation”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker PS letter to Jenkin PS (building for ILEA) [best line is that no final decision needed at this point] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Rate Limits for Rating Authorities") [change in limits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Limits for Rating Authorities") [need for adequate controls to prevent authorities budgeting for a deficit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker (Abolition Bill) [impact on charitable bodies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees (Widdicombe Inquiry) [terms of reference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robin Butler (rate capped councils) [latest developments in the House] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Norman Tebbit letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition and the voluntary sector") [impact on charitable bodies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS ("Local Government Finance") [MT suggests a seminar be arranged at Chequers to discuss ideas] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [proposed members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 briefing for MT ("Briefing for PMQs - 16 February") ["Rate capping assumptions - provision of information to Opposition"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Baker minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Counter Obstruction") [amendment at Report Stage] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute for MT (Scottish rates) [Goold now accepts that revaluation can't be postponed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: George Younger minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [figures for authorities which have stuck to their rates is alarming] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [disappointed that Younger is trying to re-open the decision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Rate Revaluation in Scotland") [Younger's proposed rate rises will have a disastrous political effect] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Sir Philip Goodhart) [Goodhart's proposal of a parliamentary forum for London] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Baker letter to Sherbourne ("Early Warning - Planning in the South") [backbench Conservative hostility to more housing being built in the south east] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute for MT ("Local Government Seminar: 31 March") [struggling to keep out 'gate-crashers'; "The aim is to seek a political, rather than a technical, reaction"; MT - "NO further invitations - already TOO large"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: George Younger minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [package to ease the impact on domestic ratepayers; MT - "It is pretty PATHETIC - but Scotland must carry the can"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull briefing for MT (meeting with Lady Porter) ["to discuss her ideas on [Westminster Council's] role in the post-abolition world"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Younger PS minute to Tim Flesher ("Revaluation and Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [draft statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin paper ("London Boroughs Forum") [perceived need for a body "speaking for London" on planning and land issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to MT ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Role") [Westminster pleased to take on London-wide functions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to Kenneth Baker ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Political Role") [GLC mis-information likely to give the government trouble] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Hartley Booth minute for MT ("Hackney Council") [trying to get radio tapes of council proceedings refusing to set a rate] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("GLC and Westminster: Lady Porter's Letter") [Porter's proposal needs careful handling] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to George Younger PS ("Rates and Revaluation") [sets out agreed package of offsetting savings to fund increase in domestic rate relief] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Michael Havers minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Counter Obstruction") [legal difficulties associated with surcharges] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT (Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild asks to see MT, Butler suspects, "to ask if you want to abolish domestic rates altogether ... (h)e hankers after this"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Redwood briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild's thinking] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Local Government Bill: London") [meetings with Goodhart and Greengross on GLC abolition] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [aimed at providing reassurance about the future of voluntary bodies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Councillor Alan Greengross) [Greengross's proposal for a successor authority to the GLC; MT "remained completely unconvinced"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (Widdicombe Committee) [possible additional member] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC: A Voice for London") [Greengross's proposal is an abomination] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Local Government Seminar: 31 March") [Treasury want a minister invited; "I suggest that we press hard to have the Chancellor himself"; MT: 'Yes'] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Government Bill: London") ["meeting with Environment Ministers and Business Managers: 26 March 1985"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Jenkin, Biffen, Wakeham, Denham, Baker; Brearley, Letwin, Flesher) [handling of the Local Government Bill] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Leon Brittan minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [Baker's idea is an imaginative one] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin PS letter to Robin Butler ("Local Government Finance Studies: Chequers Presentation") [suggested agenda] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin briefing for MT ("Local Government Seminar") [Waldegrave will propose "(a)bolition of domestic rates ... by installing a new, simple, across-the-board poll tax for all local inhabitants"; "a first-rate job ... we agree"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 minute to MT ("Seminar and lunch at Chequers Sunday, 31 March") [list of attendees; seating plan for lunch] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: ?Butler note ("Seminar on local government finance") ["Note for background briefing by press officers"] [released Dec 2014]

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