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1983 Jul 4 - 1983 Sep 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1080
Local government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 16)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 325
Themes: Local government, Local government finance

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Date Value Title
83 Jul 29 Fr Major Local government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("English Rate Support Grant Settlement: public expenditure provision and targets") [report on conclusions of Ministerial sub-committee; White Paper on public expenditure] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 3 We Major Local government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils) [estimates of administrative staff levels] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Association of London Authorities") ["a new.... [Association] composed of Labour boroughs, together with the GLC and ILEA... we now have to take a view on how Departments should handle their relations with the new body"; feasibility of court action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 30 Tu Minor Local government: No.10 minute (internal) Ingham to Scholar ("Local government reform") [West Yorkshire county council paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 8 Th Major Local government: MT letter to Greater London Council's Leader of the Opposition, Alan Greengross (abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils) [Greengross paper on local government reform] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 13 Tu Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils) [rate-capping/legislation: request for meeting "to give early warning of the sort of sequence of events we foresee"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 13 Tu Major US: Jenkin minute to MT [Likelihood of Conservative Party opposition to rate-capping; difficulties of local government reform, need for early warning to senior Conservative figures] [declassified 2014]