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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 Feb 14 Thu Community Charge: Alison record of conversation (MT - Scottish Conservative chairman) [“Goold came to express his great anxiety about the damage to the Conservative Party which is likely to result from Scottish rating revaluation”] [released 2015]
85 Jan 1 Tue 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 29 Fri 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 Jan 11 Fri Community Charge: Turnbull note for the record ("Lord Rothschild's Note on Local Government Studies") [shows "signs of frustration", but progress being made; Waldegrave "thought interesting and radical proposals would emerge but there would be some difficulty in selling them to the rest of Whitehall"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Thu Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 15 Fri 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 Fri Community Charge: John Redwood briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild's thinking] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 9 Wed Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Patrick Jenkin (Abolition Bill) [controls over obstructive GLC and Metropolitan County Councils activities] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 14 Mon Community Charge: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin ("New Burdens on Local Government") [cost of new responsibilities] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tue Community Charge: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (Widdicombe Committee) [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 10 Thu Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Willie Whitelaw ("RSG Debate 1986/87: Commitments for 1986/87") [backbenchers want answers on how low-spending authorities will be treated] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fri Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to John Biffen ("Local Authority Capital Expenditure in England and Wales, 1985/86") [proposed timetable for laying the regulations] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fri Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Michael Havers (GLC "Awareness Campaign") [legality of the campaign] [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 3 Thu Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Rate Limitation Implementation") [not supplying details of assumptions to authorities] [released Dec 2014]
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 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 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]