1986 Nov 3 - 1987 Feb 25
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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
PREM19/2299 - download whole file (PDF, 282.6 MB)
Selections from this file
Showing items 21 - 33 of 33
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 Nov 12 We | Major | Local Government: Ridley letter to John MacGregor ("Specific Grants to Local Authorities") ["how specific grants might fit with the Green Paper proposals for a new system of local government finance"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Feb 5 Th | Major | 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] |
| 86 Dec 12 Fr | Major | Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("'Payment for Local Government' - response to consultation") [acknowledgement of responses; unresolved policy issues; publication] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | Major | Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1987/88") [proposed measure to help "those counties who are losing grant this year compared to last"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 86 Dec 5 Fr | Major | Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Total Expenditure Bill") [alternative timings & approaches] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Feb 19 Th | Major | 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 Jan 8 Th | Major | 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] |
| 87 Feb 16 Mo | Major | Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (local authority debt) [PQ to make clear Government's position] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 86 Dec 11 Th | Major | Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Rate Support Grant: expenditure definitions) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Feb 4 We | Major | 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] |
| 86 Dec 1 Mo | Major | Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant and Rate Capping: Total Expenditure") ["we are faced with an extremely serious problem... [since 1980] we have calculated a local authority's "total expenditure"... in a way that we must now acknowledge to have no lawful basis"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 86 Nov 26 We | Major | Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1987/88") [measures to address loss of grant under new proposals] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Feb 6 Fr | Major | Local Government: Whitelaw/Biffen minute to MT ("Local government legislation") [proposed changes to draft Bill to avoid delay] [declassified Oct 2016] |