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1985 Aug 1 - 1985 Nov 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1562
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance; Community Charge) (Part 28)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 404
Themes: Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”)

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Date Value Title
85 Nov 4 Mo Major Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (E(LF) Committee meeting: local authority capital expenditure) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 5 Tu Major Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council - Thamesmead”) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 6 We Major Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [curtailment of education services: proposed actions] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 12 Tu Major Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 5th ("The Local Domestic Tax") [distributional impact; Scottish and Welsh aspects; property vaulation] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Liverpool: Progress Report”) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 20 We Major Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool: Magistrates’s Courts”) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 20 We Major Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [“disturbing signs in today's press that Ministers … getting the jitters about Liverpool”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 22 Fr Major Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant (RSG) Settlement 1986-1987”) [E(LA) meetings: recent developments] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 22 Fr Major Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant Settlement: 1986-7”) [assessment and options] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 25 Mo Major Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant: 1986-1987”) [“why Liverpool gains so much when Hertfordshire loses so badly”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 28 Th Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [budget: a new purchase scheme proposal] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major Local Government: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker (“Local Authority Contracting Out”) [possibility of limited interim measures] [declassified 2014]