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PREM19/1836
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 30)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 266
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86 Oct 28 Tue Local Government: Department of the Environment letter to Cabinet Office ("Leak investigation: local government finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Oct 23 Thu Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant and rate-capping: total expenditure") [John Moore: "It is obviously deporable that we have yet again to be contemplating emergency retrospective legislation on the rate support grant system. The sooner that simpler arrangements... are put in place, the better"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Oct 14 Tue Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") ["...latest lists of Government initiatives having resource implications..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Oct 14 Tue Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local authority capital controls") [Ridley press release and letter to Chairmen of local authorities: Government determined to retain control but no major legislation while system under review] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Oct 10 Fri Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Specific grants to local authorities") ["...tend to increase overall local authority expenditure compared to... a general grant"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Sep 22 Mon Local Government: MT letter to Councillor Paul Beresford, London Borough of Wandsworth (local authority capital expenditure control system) ["...most impressed with what you and your colleagues in the Conservative administration have achieved..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Sep 17 Wed Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Local authority capital control system") [meeting with Whitelaw to discuss problems with current system and Ridley's proposed changes] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Sep 11 Thu Local Government: MacGregor letter to Ridley ("Specific grants to local authorities") [thoughts on the E(LF) committee working group's first report] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 29 Tue Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1987-88: service distribution") ["...next May the Government [faces] district council elections... very unhelpful if, at such a sensitive time, district councils could point to large rate increases"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 28 Mon Local Government: Lord Elton letter to MT (strategic planning guidance for the South East) ["...following the abolition of the GLC..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 25 Fri Local Government: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Local authority capital controls") ["Clearly we must take action to bring this expenditure under proper control"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 22 Tue Local Government: Treasury record of conversation ("Scottish RSG settlement 1987-88") [MacGregor, Ridley] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 22 Tue Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (Scottish Rate Support Grant settlement) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 21 Mon Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant settlement 1987-88") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 18 Fri Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw (Rate Support Grant settlement, rate limitation and capital spending) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 17 Thu Local Government: Ridley letter to Moore (Birmingham City Council) ["...abuses of contractual process..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 15 Tue Local Government: Edwards letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant settlement - 1987/88 unallocated margins") ["The device has worked well in Wales and I see no technical difficulty if you were to adopt a similar scheme..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 10 Thu Local Government: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1987/88") ["...I was invited to discuss with [Ridley]... the way in which slopes and other mechanisms might be increased to reinforce block grant pressures, and to reconsider the RSG settlement for 1987-88 in the light of that discussion..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 9 Wed Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (Rate Support Grant settlement for England in 1987/88) ["I am pleased that the Chief Secretary and the Environment Secretary have been able to reach agreement on this package. It has my full support, and meets our objective of realism agreed last year"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 9 Wed Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Local authority finance") ["...the Lord President is furious with the Chancellor. He feels that his authority... has been questioned"] [declassified Dec 2014]