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1985 Jan 1 - 1985 May 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 425
Any docs withheld?

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85 Jan 16 Wed Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (Widdicombe Committee) [not supplying details of assumptions to authorities] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("GLC Propaganda on Ratecapping") ["increasingly unscrupulous" campaign against Abolition Bill] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Rate Support Grant Debate: Commitments for 1986/87") [opening debate] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin (Abolition Bill) [proposed "counter-obstruction clause"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 17 Thu Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Jenkin, Joseph, Havers, Baker, Gummer; Ingham, Sherbourne, Letwin, Turnbull) ["Rate financed propaganda"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fri Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("Local Authority Capital Expenditure in England and Wales 1985-86") [suggests shorter consultation period; lay orders much earlier] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tue Community Charge: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (Widdicombe Committee) [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tue Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("Inquiry into Local Government Practice and Procedures") [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 Wed Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 Wed Community Charge: Leon Brittan letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Local Government Bill: Counter-obstruction") [agrees further measures necessary, but against creation of a criminal offence] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 28 Mon Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Precept Limits for Precepting Authorities") [proposals for local authorities] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 28 Mon Community Charge: Leon Brittan letter to Patrick Jenkin ("New burdens on Local Government") [need "rigorous assessments of the costs and benefits of new initiatives", without straight-jacket] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 29 Tue Community Charge: Peter Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Precept Limits for Precepting Authorities") [ILEA - has doubts, but for you and Keith Joseph finally to decide] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("MISC 109: Extending the Coverage of Disqualification of Councillors") [should be considered by the Widdicombe Committee] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Thu Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Local Authority Propaganda") [introducing an emergency bill would be difficult] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Thu Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [announcement of Widdicombe Committee] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Thu Community Charge: Kenneth Baker letter to Keith Joseph ("The developing political crisis in our cities") ["The hard Left ... really do hope that the Government can be brought down by widespread action in the inner cities"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fri Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Local Authority Propaganda and Abuse") [GLC appeal, terms of Widdicombe inquiry] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fri Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Local Authority Propaganda and Abuse") [immediate legislation would probably regarded as an attempt to muzzle critics] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fri Community Charge: Caroline Ryder note to MT (GLC Abolition) [meeting with Lady Porter] [released Dec 2014]