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 |
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| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Local Government: Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local authority capital expenditure") ["...proposals... in the Green Paper on Local Government Finance..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 19 We | Major | 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] |
| 85 Dec 11 We | Major | 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 Fr | Major | Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1986/87) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 26 We | Major | 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] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 86 Mar 10 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Major | Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Biffen PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 29 We | Major | 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 Apr 28 Mo | Major | 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 Jan 29 We | Major | Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Local Authority capital expenditure control") [draft consultation paper] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 14 We | Major | 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] |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | 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 17 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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 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] |