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1984 Oct 2 - 1984 Nov 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1308
Local government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 23)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 287
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84 Oct 2 Tue Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Inquiry into the working of local government”) [“abuses that arise from the lack of safeguards”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tue Local Government: Baker minute to MT (“GLC publicity campaign”) [unlawful expenditure] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 3 Wed Local Government: Rees minute to MT (“Party Conference: Motion on local government financial arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 3 Wed Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“A Voice for London”) [campaign against GLC abolition proposals] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 3 Wed Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local government finance”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 4 Thu Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Baker, Lord Avon, Letwin) [“London dimension of abolition”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 4 Thu Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw (“Abolition: By-elections”) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 5 Fri Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (controls over activities of the abolition authorities) [GLC contracts] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 10 Wed Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“New burdens on local government”) [central government initiatives] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 17 Wed Conservatism: No.10 press notice (“No.10 Policy Unit”) [staff list] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 19 Fri Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [“your proposals… would… cause uproar among our own supporters”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 26 Fri Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Seminar on Local Government”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 29 Mon Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“The Association of London Authorities”) [legal issues] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 30 Tue Local Government: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (Local government finance and functions) [request for ‘outside’ expertise] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 30 Tue Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“RSG settlement 1985/86”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 1 Thu Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Abolition: Trading Standards and related functions in metropolitan counties”) [statutory provision] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 9 Fri Local Government: Younger letter to Jenkin (“Contracting out of local authority services”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fri Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Politics of local government”) [rate-capping revolt] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 19 Mon Local Government: Joseph minute to MT (“Local government finance studies”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 19 Mon Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [monitoring and control] [declassified 2014]