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? |
PREM19/1559 - download whole file (PDF, 71.47 MB)
Selections from this file
Showing items 81 - 97 of 97
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Feb 11 Mo | Major | Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Rate Limits for Rating Authorities") [decisions to be made] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Major | 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 Mar 10 Su | Major | Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin paper ("London Boroughs Forum") [perceived need for a body "speaking for London" on planning and land issues] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 4 Mo | Minor | Community Charge: Peter Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") ["generally content"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 29 Tu | Minor | 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 11 Fr | Major | Community Charge: Peter Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("RSG Debate") [his draft speech goes too far; amendments suggested] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 28 Th | Major | Community Charge: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [disappointed that Younger is trying to re-open the decision] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 12 Tu | Major | Community Charge: Peter Rees minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Present Limits for Precepting Authorities") [situation in Hackney] [released Dec 2014] |
| 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 Jan 18 Fr | Minor | 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 7 Mo | Major | Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("Selective Rate Limitation in 1985-86: Setting of Rate and Precept Limits") [content with your approach] [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 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 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 Jan 11 Fr | Key | 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 Jan 15 Tu | Major | Community Charge: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant Debate 16 January 1985: Commitments for 1986/87") [meeting to agree form of words for Jenkin; MT thought they went too far, but in event they were not needed] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 7 Th | Major | Community Charge: Younger PS minute to Tim Flesher ("Revaluation and Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [draft statement] [released Dec 2014] |