1985 Dec 2 - 1986 May 28
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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Major | Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge] |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Minor | Local Government: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 4 We | Minor | Local Government: Younger letter to Kenneth Baker ("Sale of local authority mortgages") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Major | Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("CMND 9714: Paying for Local Government: the Scottish approach") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 2 Mo | Minor | Local Government: Norgrove minute for Michael Alison (Widdicombe Inquiry into the conduct of local authority business) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | 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 10 Tu | Major | 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 3 Tu | Major | Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (Michael Heseltine) [denied access to restricted circulation E(LF) papers] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Major | 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 Mar 10 Mo | Major | 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 26 We | Major | 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 8 Tu | Major | 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 Jan 20 Mo | Minor | Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Consultative Council on local government finance: expenditure groups' report") [improvement of existing arrangement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 86 Jan 13 Mo | Minor | Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition: residuary bodies") [Chairmanship of the Merseyside Residuary Body] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 17 Th | Major | 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] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Major | 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 18 Fr | Major | 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] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | 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] |