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PREM19/1835
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 29)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 344
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Date Value Title
86 Jan 28 Tue Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge]
86 Jan 29 Wed Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Welsh approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 29 Wed Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Local Authority capital expenditure control") [draft consultation paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 Wed Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986") [Policy Unit: "The 1986-87 settlement turned out so badly because so many levers were pulled to help London... it is the rates for 1987-88 on which the General Election is likely to be fought"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 26 Wed Local Government: Baker PS letter to Wakeham PS ("Paying for Local Government: briefing notes") ["...wish to keep up the momentum on the successful presentation of the Government's proposals on rating reform..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mon Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Government Bill, 1986-87 session") [timing of Bill's introduction to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mon Local Government: Conservative MPs letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Government Bill") ["Many of us who worked on this Bill through Committee are deeply concerned about the fundamental changes which have been made by the Lords... will mean the death knell for Conservative politics in every industrial centre"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 26 Wed Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Authority contracting out") ["... to extend competition in the provision of local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 7 Mon Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986/7: legal challenge by Birmingham City Council") ["...essential to introduce a short piece of legislation during this session of Parliament..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 8 Tue Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Deferred Purchase Schemes") ["...I [and MT are]... increasingly concerned about the way in which some local authories are using [DPSs] to [flout] both our capital and current control systems"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 17 Thu Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC/MCCs") [MT offers Baker personal congratulations: "This has been a major achievement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 18 Fri Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") ["...Government initiatives... which will have resource implications for local government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 28 Mon Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1986 public expenditure round") ["...consideration of individual local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 9 Fri Local Government: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Local authority spending and rate support grant") ["...the major problem in this year's public expenditure survey"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 14 Wed Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MacGregor ("Local authority capital expenditure controls") [responses to Green Paper giving rise to need for further consideration] [declassified Dec 2014]