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

PREM19/1560
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance; Chequers meeting on Community Charge) (Part 26)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 369
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85 May 14 Tu Major Community Charge: Baker and Waldegrave cabinet paper ("The Local Government Finance Studies: Specification Report") [circulated as E(LF) 85 1] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 17 Fr Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Government Finance Studies: E(LF) (85) 1, 2 and 3") [first opportunity for most ministers to discuss the DOE proposals] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 15 We Major Community Charge: Whitelaw PS letter to Joseph PS ("Local Government Bill") [Lords amendments carried against government] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 16 Th Major Community Charge: Whitelaw PS letter to Joseph PS ("Local Government Bill: Lords amendments") [Whitelaw acquiesces to Baker's suggestion "with considerable reluctance"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 28 Tu Major Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw ("Local Government Bill") [wants to concede "an advisory/consultative planning body in London"; MT: "Why do we need ANOTHER advisory body?"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 28 Tu Major Community Charge: Jenkin minute for MT ("Situation report on the setting of rates") ["where we stand regarding obstruction tactics by rate limited and other local authorities"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Minor Community Charge: Ryder minute for Butler ("Rates Meeting") [possible dates for E(LF)] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tu Minor Community Charge: No.10 briefing for MT ("Rates - Line to take") [briefing for PMQs] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tu Minor Community Charge: Havers letter to Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies - a Trust for London") [better to use an existing organisation] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 3 We Minor Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [need to take account of arts] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 1 We Minor Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin ("EC Acquired Rights Directive and the South Bank") [issues arising from GLC abolition] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 8 We Minor Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition: provisions to encourage cooperation") [strongly approves] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 10 We Minor Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") [74 items since beginning of 94] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mo Minor Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Ridley ("New burdens on local government") [acknowledges imperfections in his list] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Th Minor Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("E(LF) 20 May: Meeting and Buffet Lunch") [attendees - Lawson's name added] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Minor Community Charge: Turnbull minute for MT (Rate Support Grant 'close ending') [attached note "dealing with Mr Hattersley's fixation about the adjustment of RSG"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Minor Community Charge: Chief Secretary PS letter to DOE ("Local Authority Expenditure: Newspaper Article") [Chief Secretary wrote for Sunday Express] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 23 Tu Minor Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler (study of community charge in Cambridgeshire) [seeks contact with Inland Revenue] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Minor Community Charge: John Patten letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies A Trust for London") [supports his proposal] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Minor Community Charge: Cabinet Secretary minute for MT (evidence to be submitted to Widdicombe Inquiry) ["Central government conventions on publicity and advertising"] [released Dec 2014]