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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/829
Local government (Future of the rating system; rating revaluation; Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 280
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79 May 25 Fr Major Rates: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, John Stanley) [housing sector; domestic rates] [declassified 2012]
79 Jun 19 Tu Major Rates: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Rating revaluation (C(79) 21”) [MT compliments Heseltine on “excellent paper”] [declassified 2012]
79 Jun 20 We Major Rates: No.10 letter to Department of the Environment (Rating revaluation) [“decided to cancel… while we sort out the longer term future of the rating system”] [declassified 2012]
79 Aug 16 Th Major Rates: Lawson letter to Tom King (“Local Government Finance Bill: Rating Items”) [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 20 Tu Major Rates: Heseltine letter to Howe (“Future of Rating”) [“increasing pressure to say what we are doing”] [declassified 2012]
80 Jun 2 Mo Major Rates: MT letter to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP (Domestic rating system) [“objective to abolish”] [declassified 2012]
80 Jul 25 Fr Major Rates: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Tom King) [“Reform of the Rate System”] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 9 Mo Major Rates: Younger letter to Heseltine (“Future of the Rates”) [MT: “We are still committed to abolishing”] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 6 Fr Major Rates: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Future of Rating”) [MT: “They already know my views on this”] [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu Key Rates: Rifkind minute to MT (Scottish Conservative Conference debate on domestic rates) [“rates are… becoming an explosive political issue”] [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu Major Rates: Cabinet Office briefing to MT (“Local authority expenditure: reform of rates: accounts commission (E(81) 53 and 54”) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 9 Mo Major Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates) [revised draft] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 18 We Major Rates: Younger letter to MT (“Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates”) [clash with rating revaluation in Scotland] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 4 Fr Major Rates: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Green Paper on domestic rates”) [proposed amendments] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 15 Tu Major Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (“Local Government Finance Bill/ statement on Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates”) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 17 Th Major Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (“Future legislation on rates”) [timescale] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 3 We Major Rates: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Alternatives to domestic rates: next steps”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 18 Fr Major Rates: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Ministerial group on local government organisation: alternatives to domestic rates”) [MT: “I am totally against a local income tax”] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 2 Sa Major Rates: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Tom King) [“Future of the Rating System”] [declassified 2012]