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PDF 89 Jun 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1989") [MT wanting to be briefed before meeting of E(LF) on 22 Jun] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Rifkind ("Local Government and Housing Bill") ['right to buy'] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Local authority grant settlement 1989") [summary of key points from draft paper for E(LF) committee] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Local Government Finance - briefing with Richard Wilson") [state of play in talks between Ridley and Major] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Government Finance 1990-91") [Ridley has reached agreement with Major on this year's grant settlement plus a new safety net] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1989") [Gray and Wilson talk with Major - "his feeling is that, if something more is to be done on the safety net, it is best done early"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Meeting of E(LF): 22 June") ["John Major does think it would be possible to come up with a supplementary safety net package"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Revenue Support Grant Settlement 1990/91") [latest Treasury thinking] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(LF): Local Authority Grant Settlement 1990-91") [vital to keep average level of charge at £300; danger it could reach £330 without extra grant] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Role of local authorities") [summary & attached Policy Unit note] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, John Gummer, Sir Terry Heiser) ["Role and structure of local government"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("1990/91 local authority grant settlement for England") [announcement] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Local government finance in Wales") [announcement] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to MacGregor PS ("Scottish Revenue Support Grant Settlement 1990-91") [announcement] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Aug 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Patten PS letter to No.10 ("Circulars to local authorities") [MT agrees to ending successful 10 year exercise to reduce circulars, on proviso numbers don't rise again] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton letter to Lamont ("New financial regime for local authorities: rent rebate subsidy") ["I felt I should let you know of my misgivings about this"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Griffiths minute for MT ("Local authority grant settlement") [supports Lawson's point that councils doing best from community charge also those campaigning hardest for Exchequer support; get chapter and verse] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Baker, Patten, Lamont, David Hunt, Brian Griffiths) ["Local authority grant settlement"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lamont letter to MacGregor ("Local authority current: distribution of total standard spending amongst services") [proposals; Policy Unit: "much criticism will emerge that the Government is seeking to impose a 'cuts' package... [leading to] higher community charges"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lamont letter to Patten ("Local Authority capital: local councils with no outstanding debt") [legislative proposals "for the treatment of local authority capital receipts under the new capital finance regime"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Oct 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Patten letter to Lamont ("Local Authority cash incentive schemes") ["to encourage council tenants to move into homes of their own, thus releasing urgently-needed vacancies for reletting"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Oct 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Patten minute to MT ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Lords defeats") ["on rural shared ownership and the right to buy... proposed response"; sheltered housing for the elderly] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Oct 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Patten PS letter to No.10 ("Local Government Finance") [draft Statement to Parliament; Standard Spending Assessment exemplifications for local authorities; community charge capping] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Patten letter to Howe ("New burdens on local government") ["latest list of central government initiatives"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Dec 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local Authority Swaps: Hammersmith and Fulham") [MT rejects Governor of the Bank of England's offer to mediate between local authorities and banks: "a matter to be settled by the courts"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Dec 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Walker PS letter to Howe PS ("Statement on local government finance in Wales") [grant settlement; community charge transitional relief] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Dec 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lamont letter to Patten ("Local Government Finance") ["Any attempt to tinker further with the [grant] settlement at this stage would...seriously damage the credibility of the whole community charge policy"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Patten ("PWLB Quotas for 1990-91") [need to restrain local authority calls on Public Works Loan Board; MT: "perhaps we might consider why we have a PWLB at all"; relation to community charge levels] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Patten letter to MacGregor ("1991/92 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [discussions on expenditure with local authority associations] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lamont letter to Patten ("Local Authority Current: arrangements for handling the 1990 Survey") [MT concurs with proposals for no significant changes to existing system] [declassified July 2017]
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