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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2299
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 31)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Oct 31
Classification: Secret and Personal
Page count: 293
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87 Feb 23 Mon Local Government: FCO briefing for MT ("E(LF) meeting on 26 February: review of local authority fees and charges") [MT opposes charging for library services] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Nov 20 Fri Local government: Douglas Hurd letter to Nick Ridley ("Local Government Bill: Homosexuality Amendment") [welcomes principle but warns against criminalising opinion] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 19 Thu Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Liverpool") ["we cannot be seen to be giving special help to Liverpool to meet problems which are, to some extent, self-inflicted and in substance little different from those of other local authorities"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 16 Mon Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (local authority debt) [PQ to make clear Government's position] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 9 Mon Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham) ["Local Government legislation": 'pruning' the Local Government Bill] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 9 Mon Local Government: Kenneth Baker note to MT (transfer of public assets to private ownership) [magazine property sales advert: "abolition in action!"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 6 Fri Local Government: Whitelaw/Biffen minute to MT ("Local government legislation") [proposed changes to draft Bill to avoid delay] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 6 Fri Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local authorities creative accounting and financial prudence") ["an opportunity to discuss the Government's strategy towards those local authorities facing possible financial collapse"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 5 Thu Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government': proposed 5 percent discretionary non-domestic rate") [case for dropping the proposal] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Feb 4 Wed Local Government: Waldegrave PS letter to MT ("'The Agenda for Strategic Guidance for London") [London Planning Advisory Committee's "views on the scope, contents and timing of the guidance"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jan 29 Thu Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (Housing policy and the future role of local authorities) [Ridley papers: cover note only; "I suggest a meeting with Mr. Ridley and the Chancellor"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jan 29 Thu Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Local authority credit standing") ["a line to take on the Audit Commission's report on London Boroughs, so as to make it clear that the Government does not stand behind their debts"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jan 16 Fri Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (specific grants to local authorities) ["we must retain the flexibility to introduce new grants, and... increases in specific grant should be subject to collective agreement"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jan 8 Thu Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1987/88 Statement on 13 January") [Ridley statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016]
86 Dec 15 Mon Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (Prime Minister's meeting with Lady Porter) [request for briefing] [declassified Oct 2016]
86 Dec 12 Fri Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("'Payment for Local Government' - response to consultation") [acknowledgement of responses; unresolved policy issues; publication] [declassified Oct 2016]
86 Dec 12 Fri Local Government: Association of District Councils letter to MT (meeting to discuss reform of local government finance) ["I appreciate greatly your receiving us and believe the discussions were very constructive"] [declassified Oct 2016]
86 Dec 11 Thu Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Rate Support Grant: expenditure definitions) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016]
86 Dec 10 Wed Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Total Expenditure Bill") ["Cabinet tomorrow is the last opportunity to inform all colleagues of what will be a very sensitive piece of legislation"] [declassified Oct 2016]
86 Dec 5 Fri Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Total Expenditure Bill") [alternative timings & approaches] [declassified Oct 2016]