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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1082
Local government (Future of rating system; alternatives to domestic rates; rate limitation schemes) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 334
Themes: Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”)

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Date Value Title
82 Sep 24 Fr Major Local government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Reform of rates") ["I well understand your reaction to... [my proposals] taken in isolation. But these reforms are only part of a range of proposals for local government which need to be judged together"; MT: "totally inadequate"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 4 Fr Major Local government: King minute to MT (Local government expenditure and rates reform) ["possible routes of action"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 7 Mo Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, Ferdinand Mount) ["Local government expenditure and rates reform"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 14 Mo Major Local government: No.10 minute to MT (membership of the Small Working Group on Rates) [local authority taxation reform] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 15 Tu Major Local government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Taxation") [rate reform] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 15 Tu Major Local government: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Sub Committee on Local Government Finance") [rate reform; funding of teachers' salaries] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 15 Tu Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Taxation") [rate reform] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 28 Mo Minor Local government: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 ("Local Taxation") [reform: inter-departmental report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 12 Tu Major Local government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Rates") [reform] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 13 We Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King, Brittan, Parkinson, Lord Bellwin, Ferdinand Mount) ["Local Government Finance": rates reform] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 22 Fr Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Taxation") [main issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 26 Tu Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Taxation: control of rate increases and expenditure") [main issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 26 Tu Major Local government: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Local Taxation") [observations for E(LF) sub-committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 26 Tu Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Local Taxation") [observations on Tom King paper for E(LF) sub-committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 26 Tu Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Taxation") [Tom King paper for E(LF) sub-committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 4 We Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Taxation: control of rate increases and expenditure") [main issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 6 Fr Major Local government: No.10 briefing for MT (Local Government Finance and Taxation) [Tom King paper for Cabinet: key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 9 Th Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Government Finance and Taxation") [main issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 29 We Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Rate Limitation Legislation") ["grateful for your agreement that work should proceed on the basis outlined in this minute"; MT pleased with progress] [declassified Aug 2013]