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PREM19/832
Local government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 289
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82 Jan 13 We Major Local government: Heseltine minute to MT (London Transport & the GLC) [implications of House of Lords judgement] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 14 Th Major Local government: Howell PS letter to Pym PS (London Transport & the GLC) [Howell draft letter to Livingstone] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 18 Mo Major Local government: No.10 minute to MT (“London Transport and the GLC”) [Howell statement to Parliament] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 21 Th Major Local government: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Local Government Finance Bill - Clause 4”) [“I came under strong pressure on all sides of the House”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 22 Fr Major Local government: Joseph letter to Heseltine (“Local Government Finance (No 2) Bill”) [power to withhold consent to temporary borrowing] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 25 Mo Minor Local government: Howell PS letter to Pym PS (“Legislation on Transport subsidies”) [scheduling of Transport Bill and Rates Support Grant debate] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 27 We Minor Local government: Whitelaw letter to Heseltine (targets for local authority expenditure) [possible effects on law & order services] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 27 We Major Local government: Heseltine minute to MT (“Possible modification to the Rate Support Grant settlement”) [response to MT request to re-examine figures] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 1 Mo Minor Local government: Brittan letter to King (“Local Government Finance (No 2) Bill: clause 4”) [request for amendment] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 2 Tu Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Brittan, Younger, Edwards, Jopling, Channon, King) [“Proposed modification of the RSG settlement”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 2 Tu Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Greater London Council (GLC) and London Transport (LT)”) [MT: “getting into a mess… must take a firm hold quickly”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 3 We Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Heseltine, Brittan, Pym, Howell, Havers) [“Greater London Council (GLC) and London Transport (LT)”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 4 Th Major Local government: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Local government: long term strategy”) [implications of large-scale re-organisation] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 8 Mo Major Local government: Heseltine letter to Havers (“R v. Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte London Borough of Brent and Others”) [“We now face further litigation”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 9 Tu Minor Local government: Department of Environment letter to Cabinet Office (CPRS study on relationship between central & local government) [interdepartmental co-operation] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 10 We Major Local government: Howell minute to MT (“GLC and London Transport: emergency powers”) [powers to overrule GLC] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 10 We Major Local government: Cutler letter to Heseltine (London transport fares & the GLC budget: legislation) [“considerable concern and anxiety”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 17 We Major Local government: Joseph minute to MT (Hertfordshire LEA: educational results and expenditure) [RSG settlement 82-83] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 18 Th Major Local government: Department of Environment minute for Heseltine (Council rate increases) [Jack Straw MP article in ‘The Times’] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major Local government: Heseltine letter to Joseph (“Local Government Finance (No 2) Bill”) [concerns about potential cashflow difficulties] [declassified 2012]