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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
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85 Mar 11 Mo Major Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to MT ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Role") [Westminster pleased to take on London-wide functions] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 We Major 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 Mo Major 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 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 Feb 18 Mo Minor Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker (Abolition Bill) [impact on charitable bodies] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 14 Mo Minor Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin ("1985-86 Rate Support Grant debate") [agrees with Peter Rees] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 We Minor Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin (Abolition Bill) [proposed "counter-obstruction clause"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Minor Community Charge: Lord Hailsham letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Proposed new clause in the Abolition Bill") [enough on our plates without this, but will bow to business managers] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 1 Tu Key Community Charge: Lord Rothschild paper for MT ("The Local Authority Problem Viewed by an Outsider, 1.1.1985") [promised "sharp look at local authority finance and function"] [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 Jan 9 We Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Edwards minute to John Biffen (Welsh rate support grant) [technical error in calculation] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tu Minor Community Charge: No.10 briefing for MT ("Briefing for PMQs - 16 February") ["Rate capping assumptions - provision of information to Opposition"] [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 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 Feb 28 Th Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Sir Philip Goodhart) [Goodhart's proposal of a parliamentary forum for London] [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 Jan 17 Th Major 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 Feb 28 Th Key Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tu Minor Community Charge: Norman Tebbit letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition and the voluntary sector") [impact on charitable bodies] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 14 Th Major Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to Andrew Turnbull ("DOE brief on GLC Housing") [Young's brief illustrates why the abolition strategy has run into difficulty] [released Dec 2014]