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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1559
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance; beginning of Community Charge) (Part 25)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 425
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Union of UK nations

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Date Value Title
85 Mar 14 Th Major Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to George Younger PS ("Rates and Revaluation") [sets out agreed package of offsetting savings to fund increase in domestic rate relief] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 15 Fr Major Community Charge: Michael Havers minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Counter Obstruction") [legal difficulties associated with surcharges] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 15 Fr Key Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT (Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild asks to see MT, Butler suspects, "to ask if you want to abolish domestic rates altogether ... (h)e hankers after this"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 15 Fr Key Community Charge: John Redwood briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild's thinking] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 19 Tu Major Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Local Government Bill: London") [meetings with Goodhart and Greengross on GLC abolition] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 19 Tu Major Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [aimed at providing reassurance about the future of voluntary bodies] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 21 Th Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Councillor Alan Greengross) [Greengross's proposal for a successor authority to the GLC; MT "remained completely unconvinced"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 24 Su Major Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (Widdicombe Committee) [possible additional member] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC: A Voice for London") [Greengross's proposal is an abomination] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Local Government Seminar: 31 March") [Treasury want a minister invited; "I suggest that we press hard to have the Chancellor himself"; MT: 'Yes'] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Government Bill: London") ["meeting with Environment Ministers and Business Managers: 26 March 1985"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Jenkin, Biffen, Wakeham, Denham, Baker; Brearley, Letwin, Flesher) [handling of the Local Government Bill] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 27 We Major Community Charge: Leon Brittan minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [Baker's idea is an imaginative one] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 27 We Major Community Charge: Jenkin PS letter to Robin Butler ("Local Government Finance Studies: Chequers Presentation") [suggested agenda] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fr Key Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin briefing for MT ("Local Government Seminar") [Waldegrave will propose "(a)bolition of domestic rates ... by installing a new, simple, across-the-board poll tax for all local inhabitants"; "a first-rate job ... we agree"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fr Minor Community Charge: No.10 minute to MT ("Seminar and lunch at Chequers Sunday, 31 March") [list of attendees; seating plan for lunch] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 31 Su Major Community Charge: ?Butler note ("Seminar on local government finance") ["Note for background briefing by press officers"] [released Dec 2014]