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PREM19/831
Local government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 8)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 171
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Date Value Title
81 Dec 2 We Major Local government: Younger PS letter to Brittan PS (“Rate Support Grant Statement, Wednesday 2 December”) [PQ written answer] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 2 We Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local Government Finance Bill”) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 9 We Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local Government Finance Bill - Cabinet 10 December”) [banning of supplementary rates] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 11 Fr Major Local government: Heseltine minute to MT (Rate Support Grant Settlement for 1982/83) [reducing levels of local government current expenditure] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 15 Tu Major Local government: Pym letter to Howell (passenger transport subsidies) [timetable for legislation in response to House of Lords judgement] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 16 We Major Local government: No.10 minute to MT (“Mr. Heseltine’s statement on local government finance and rates”) [referendum proposal dropped - Kaufman “a humiliation for the Secretary of State”] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 16 We Major Local government: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (independent source of finance for local government) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 18 Fr Major Local government: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (“Statement on Local Government spending”) [achieving targets] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 18 Fr Major Local government: Heseltine PS letter to Brittan PS (“Housing PESC”) [Parliamentary statement on public expenditure] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 23 We Major Local government: Howell PS letter to No.10 (“London Transport”) [House of Lords judgement on GLC revenue subsidy] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 29 Tu Major Local government: Heseltine letter to Councillor Wheaton (Humberside’s expenditure in 1981/82) [Labour Council policies] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Th Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Joseph, Tebbit, Heseltine, Young, Blaker, Vaughan) [pay] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Th Major Local government: Heseltine letter to Havers (“GLC/Bromley Case: implications of House of Lords decision for ratepayers”) [possible entitlement to refund] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Th Major Local government: Howell letter to MT (“London Transport and the GLC”) [meeting with Ken Livingstone] [declassified 2012]