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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1614
Regional Policy (Inner city policy: Urban Development Corporations: Government help for Liverpool and Merseyside) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 340
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84 Mar 23 Fr Major Local government: AGO draft statement (Liverpool rates) [“A local authority by law owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Mar 26 Mo Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“the Labour rebels now wanted, not just to prevent an improper rate, but to secure a legal rate before the election on 3 May”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Mar 28 We Major Local government: Hugh Taylor letter to No.10 (“Liverpool”) [reponse to “intimidation of so-called rebel councillors”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 3 Tu Major Local government: John Hamilton letter to MT (Liverpool council budget) [“Liverpool’s plight does not derive and never has derived from circumstances in Liverpool alone”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 11 We Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 12 Th Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, etc) [“underlying the crisis over Liverpool’s finances there was an atmosphere of growing violence which was exacerbated by the violence of language in local politics”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo Major Local government: Department of Trade and Industry briefing (meeting with Liverpool councillors) [“if Liverpool City Council fail to decide on a valid budget and rate as soon as possible, then Liverpool’s problems would not be eased but made far worse”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo Major Local government: MT draft letter to John Hamilton (Liverpool council budget) [“The interests of the people of Liverpool … cannot be advanced by the adoption of an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 19 Th Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [speaking note for ministers: objective “must be to encourage common sense to prevail so that the council makes a legal rate at its meeting”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 25 We Major Local government: No.10 minute (Liverpool rate problems) [“we are faced with the likelihood that Liverpool will eventually set an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 26 Th Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“the meeting did not favour legal action by the Attorney General”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 28 Sa Major Local government: “HF” note (“Liverpool and local authority creditworthiness”) [options for ministers if Liverpool defaults on debts] [released Dec 2014]