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PREM19/1837
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 258
Themes: Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”)

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Date Value Title
86 Jan 3 Fr Major Local Government: Baker letter to Younger ("Local government finance Green Paper") [draft chapter on Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rate reform: safety nets") ["Kenneth Baker has cunningly revised the 'safety net' so that it gives fewer bonuses to the North and makes life easier for London"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 6 Mo Minor Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Local government finance") [reply to Whitelaw minute of 23 Dec 85] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 9 Th Major Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Local government finance Green Paper foreword") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 9 Th Major Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local government finance studies: draft Green Paper") ["The proposal likely to attract the greatest public interest - and the fiercest political controversy - is that to replace domestic rates with a community charge"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 We Major Local Government: Department of the Environment record of conversation ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker, Rifkind, Ancram, Waldegrave] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Green Paper: Paying for Local Government") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker draft statement to Parliament: "...shows you have been absolutely right to select him and William Waldegrave as the reform team..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 28 Tu Major Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge]
86 Feb 13 Th Major Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Paying for local government") [request for extension of the consultation period] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 3 Mo Major Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Baker, Ridley, MacGregor, Wakeham, Giles Shaw, Waldegrave) ["Rates": "...prospective rate increases in... Wirral, Sefton and Bury... options for action..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 3 Mo Major Local Government: Department of Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting: 4.00 pm, 3 March") [prospective rate increases in Wirral, Sefton and Bury: options for action] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 8 Th Major Local Government: Rifkind letter to Whitelaw (Paper for E(LF) meeting: 'Local Government finance studies: Scotland: proposed grant arrangements') ["...changes to the grant distribution arrangements needed with the introduction of a community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th Major Local Government: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Norgrove ("Paying for local government: 1986-87 Scottish legislation") ["We are planning to move to a non-domestic rate uniform across the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jun 13 Fr Major Community Charge: Scottish Office paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 1 ("The Operation of the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
86 Jun 17 Tu Major Community Charge: Fowler paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 2 ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
86 Jun 18 We Major Local Government: Edwards letter to Ridley ("Green Paper 'Paying for Local Government'") ["...letter... from the Director of the CBI Wales in support of our proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jun 18 We Major Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("E (LF) (86) 1st Meeting") [Community Charge: "The Social Services Secretary has now circulated - very late - a Memorandum... that does little more than wring hands and draw attention to the considerable turbulence which the various reforms will cause..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jun 19 Th Major Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 1st ("Introduction of the Community Charge") [also social security aspects] [declassified Jul 2015]
86 Jul 1 Tu Major Local Government: Lord Hailsham letter to Rifkind ("Paying for local government") ["...liability and subsequent enforcement... potential pressures on and resource implications for the court service..."] [declassified Dec 2014]