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1984 Aug 1 - 1984 Sep 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1307
Local government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 22)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 272
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84 Aug 1 Wed Local Government: Whitelaw PS record of conversation (Whitelaw, Jenkin, Lord Bellwin, Gummer, Waldegrave etc.) [“Abolition of the GLC and MCCs”: advertising campaign] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 1 Wed Local Government: Edwards letter to Lord Gowrie (additional central funding) [“interested parties in Wales will find it difficult to understand and accept their exclusion”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 2 Thu Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 2 Thu Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lady Lucy Faithfull) [“Abolition of the GLC”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 3 Fri Local Government: Younger minute to MT (Rate Support Grant settlement 1985-86) [“[may] run into a very serious political situation in Scotland”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 29 Wed Local Government: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Local government”) [urges ministerial meeting to plan for "coming battles with local government"] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 5 Wed Local Government: Tebbit letter to Lord Bellwin (“Abolition of GLC and MCC’s: further detailed decisions and preparation of legislation”) [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 5 Wed Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull (“Audit Commission Report”) [“bewildering complexity… lack of… accountability”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mon Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull (“Public expenditure”) [“spending overshoot of about £1 billion”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mon Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local government policies”) [meeting to discuss prior, to Conservative Party Conference] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mon Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [debate over moratorium proposal] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 19 Wed Local Government: Rees letter to Nick Ridley (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mon Local Government: George Young MP letter to MT (“Local government policies”) [abuses of office] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mon Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to Rees PS (“Local authority capital expenditure - announcement”) [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mon Local Government: Lord Bellwin letter to MT (Local government) [abuses of office; review of the rating system] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 25 Tue Local Government: Redwood briefing for MT (“Local government” - ministerial meeting) ["some kind of poll tax ... most likely to meet the requirements of accountability and visibility"] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 25 Tue Local Government: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (“Abolition of the GLC: avoidance of controls”) [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 25 Tue Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Local Government seminar”) [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 25 Tue Local Government: Joseph letter to Whitelaw (“New burdens on local government”) [“proliferation of central government initiatives”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 25 Tue Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local government policies”) [declassified 2014]