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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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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85 Dec 2 Mon Local Government: Norgrove minute for Michael Alison (Widdicombe Inquiry into the conduct of local authority business) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 3 Tue Local Government: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 3 Tue Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (Michael Heseltine) [denied access to restricted circulation E(LF) papers] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 4 Wed Local Government: Younger letter to Kenneth Baker ("Sale of local authority mortgages") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 5 Thu Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("E(LF)(85)19: Local Authority capital expenditure control") ["...how the present system of capital control on net expenditure might be modified..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 5 Thu Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local Authority capital expenditure controls") ["...implications for a reformed system... of the assurances given in the past to local authorities about use of capital receipts..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 9 Mon Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local governement finance: specific grants") [Lawson-chaired working group interim report on "...the role and extent of specific grants in funding local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 9 Mon Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils") ["...now evidence of concerted efforts to spend as much as possible... before abolition... In the case of the GLC... giving money to organisations... involved in perpetuating the policies of the GLC... we must introduce legislation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 10 Tue Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Biffen, Mayhew, MacGregor, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 11 Wed Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding") [consideration of measures to curb and control spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 13 Fri Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, MacGregor, Mayhew, Baker, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 13 Fri Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1986/87) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 13 Fri Local Government: Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local authority capital expenditure") ["...proposals... in the Green Paper on Local Government Finance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 16 Mon Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Biffen PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 16 Mon Local Government: Lynda Chalker letter to Tony Banks MP (taxicard scheme) [addressing her comments made in Parliament on proposed GLC revisions to the scheme and its cost-effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 17 Tue Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition: residuary bodies") [Chairmanship of the Merseyside Residuary Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mon Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Consultative Council on local government finance: expenditure groups' report") [improvement of existing arrangement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tue Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Scottish approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tue Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [statement to Parliament to launch Green Paper: "We are proposing... the replacement of rates with a flat-rate community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]