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PDF 88 Apr 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Luce letter to Ridley ("Local government finance: fees and charges") [delay in legislating posing risk of librarian revolt] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major letter to Rifkind ("Local government capital spending: consultation paper") [Scotland] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Overseer Scheme") ["my reactions to the correspondence which has taken place and... the issues which I think we need to address at the [Committee] meeting"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Hurd ("1989/90 RSG Settlement: operation of the expenditure working groups") [identifying scope for savings] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Regulating local authority involvement in companies") ["proposals designed to prevent local authorities from using their involvement in companies... to circumvent... financial and property controls"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("New burdens on local government") [enclosure & analysis of "the latest list of Central Government initiatives, having financial and manpower implications for local government"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local Government Finance Bill: Lords amendments") ["You may be interested to see the attached note from the Public Bill Office on the admissability of amendments in the Lords"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Major (local authority capital controls) [follow-up to statement in Parliament on 9th March outlining changes to rules] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Regulating local authority involvement in companies") [response to concerns raised by MT and colleagues] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Channon letter to Wakeham ("Privatisation of local authority bus companies") ["writing to you to set out the situation"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Hurd minute to MT ("Brent: Grant under Section 11 of Local Government Act 1966") ["Our supporters in Brent are naturally worried about the scheme, given the history a couple of years ago"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["Brent: Grant under Section 11 of Local Government Act 1966"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Channon letter to Ridley ("PTAs under the new local government finance regime") ["consultation paper... as you requested... [highlighted] option of secession for districts which considered that their PTAs were overspending... most of the replies... have been hostile to the proposal"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Local authority capital expenditure and finance") [draft consultation] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("The prescribed proportion of capital receipts") ["a note on the extent to which local authorities should be allowed to spend capital receipts in full within the financial year in which they are received" (controlling public expenditure) ] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local authority capital: consultation document") [Ridley/Major dispute about "risk of a surge of... spending on repairs and maintenance prior to the introduction of the new capital regime in 1990"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Circulars to Local Authorities") [report on the 9th year of exercise to reduce number of circulars] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("1989-90 RSG Settlement") [key issues; MT annotates her key concerns in advance of meeting] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 4 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 88 Jul 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Wakeham, Parkinson, Major) ["1989-90 RSG Settlement"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Rate Support Grant Settlement") [key points from E(LA) meeting; Attorney General advice; Ridley draft Statement to Parliament; key points for Cabinet meeting] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("RSG Presentation") ["in particular, how we can most satisfactorily defend the agreement we have reached"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Wyn Roberts PS letter to No.10 ("Local Government Finance Announcement: Thursday 7 July") [closedown; Welsh RSG settlement; consultation paper on capital expenditure & finance] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Wyn Roberts PS letter to No.10 ("RSG Settlement 1989/90 etc") [statement to Parliament] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Specific Grants to Local Authorities on Loan Charges") ["I am writing to seek your approval for a brief provision in next session's Housing and Local Government Bill"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Major (Local Government Finance Bill) ["costs of preparing for the rates reform package"; mechanism for distribution of resources to charging authorities] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major minute to MT ("New Planning Total") [draft White Paper; key points] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("The Government's Response to the Widdicombe Report") [unresolved educational matters] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("Rate Support Grant Bill") [timing of legislation to close down existing RSG system] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [difference of views with MT over exemptions] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Local Government Finance (Scotland): RSG Settlement Annoucement for 1989-90") [statement to Parliament] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major PS letter to No.10 ("The New Planning Total") [press notice & Q+A briefing to accompany White Paper publication] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Parkinson ("Rate Support Grant Bill") [scheduling; main provisions; necessary action] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Baker ("Consultation with local government") [the way forward] [declassified July 2016]
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