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1980 Sep 29 - 1981 Jun 2
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/514
Local government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 235
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81 May 28 Th Major Local Government: Younger minute to MT ("Local Government Finance") [comment on Heseltine's 27 May minute to MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 2 Tu Major Local Government: Welsh Office letter to No.10 ("Statement to the House: Local Government Finance - Wales") [Edwards' statement to the House of Commons] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Local Government: Thorneycroft letter to MT ("Policy Options for Local Government Finance") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Local Government: Pym letter to MT (local government finance) ["I want to voice my disquiet about the way in which it is proposed we should handle the two items on local government finance"] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 23 Th Major Local Government: Pattison note to MT (Housing Investment Programme 1980/81) ["The moratorium on new council housing starts is attracting a lot of attention"] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 5 Fr Major Local Government: Pattison minute to MT ("Housing Association Schemes") [moratorium on new housing association approvals] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 6 Mo Major Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Wyn Roberts) [Local Government Bill, capital expenditure controls, Amlwch Oil Terminal] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 25 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 letter to HMT ("Council House Subsidies and Rents: Rate Support Grant") [MT sides with Heseltine in Environment/Treasury dispute] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 letter to Department of Environment ("Local Government Finance") [MT "takes a very close interest" in Heseltine's review of local government finance] [declassified 2011]
81 May 29 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 letter to Department of Environment ("Government Finance") [MT's comments on Heseltine's minute of 27 May] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 28 Tu Major Local Government: MT letter to Councillor Keith Evans (Local Government Bill, capital expenditure controls, and Amlwch Oil Terminal) ["I should like to be able to help, but I am afraid I have concluded that I cannot do so"] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 24 Mo Major Local Government: Lankester minute to MT ("Mr. Heseltine's Statement on Housing Overspend") [dispute between Heseltine and the Treasury] [declassified 2011]
81 May 28 Th Major Local Government: Lankester minute to MT ("Local Government Finance") [comment on Heseltine's 27 May minute to MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 4 We Major Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT (local government finance: Barnet experiment) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Rates") [rate settlements] [declassified 2011]
81 May 27 We Major Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Local Government Finance") [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 11 Th Major Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Local Authority Housing: Capital Overspend 1980-81") [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 27 Mo Major Local Government: Edwards letter to MT (Local Government Bill, capital expenditure controls, and Amlwch Oil Terminal) [unable to allow Ynys Mon Borough Council to fund capital expenditure from Amlwch Oil Terminal income] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 25 Tu Major Local Government: Department of Environment press release ("Standstill on Local Authority New Housing Projects in England to Continue for the Time Being") [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 12 We Major Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (consultation with local authorities on new housing subsidy system) [declassified 2011]