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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)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 287
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84 Nov 20 Tu Major Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local government finance studies - work programme”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 20 Tu Major Local Government: Baker letter to Rees (“Abolition Bill: organising committees”) [Rees concern: more bureaucracy] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 22 Th Major Local Government: Nick Ridley letter to Jenkin (“GRE assessment for joint boards”) [“appalled… [with] the Bill as it will be introduced”] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 22 Th Major Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“GLC/MCC abolition: political developments”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major Local Government: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Local authority capital controls”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mo Major Local Government: No.10 letter to Wandsworth Borough Council (GLC statutory transfer orders) [“aggrieved… Conservatives”] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Local Government: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler (review of local government finance & functions) [bureaucratic issues] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Local Government: Rees letter to Whitelaw (“Scottish local authority expenditure 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“Value-for-money in local government”) [Audit Commission report] [declassified 2014]