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PREM19/2300
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 32)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Oct 31
Classification: Secret
Page count: 325
Themes: Judiciary, Union of UK nations, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Community charge (“poll tax”), Local government, Local government finance

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Date Value Title
87 Mar 3 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant: Greenwich court case") [background & next steps] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Mar 6 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Hurd ("London boroughs grants committee") ["In view of the Committee's continuing failure to itself agree on a budget... I am doing all that I can to ensure that a budget for 1987/88 will be established"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Mar 6 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government': (1) 1990 non-domestic revaluation (2) Discretion to vary standard charge") [caravans; second homes/chalets] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Mar 9 Mo Minor Local Government: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("E(LF): specific grants to local authorities") ["how the issues raised by the review... should be taken forward"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Mar 11 We Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Liverpool Councillors") ["judgement in the House of Lords about disqualification"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Mar 20 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to MT (Rate Support Grant) ["I very much regret that legal action by one borough should have had these consequences for others"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Apr 9 Th Major Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Local authority needs indicators") ["some colleagues in charge of spending departments... are likely to resist a move to a simple system... [MT] would be most grateful if... [Whitelaw] could consider this problem"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 May 6 We Major Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Ridley PS ("Local authority leaseback deals") ["article in the Sunday Times on the Revenue's investigation"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 May 11 Mo Major Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Local authority current expenditure 1987-88: grant penalties and selective action") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 May 14 Th Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("MISC 109: Creative accounting and financial prudence") ["where... we stand on tackling the problem of those local authorities who persist in handling their financial affairs irresponsibly"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 May 15 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Sir Jeffrey Sterling") ["largely false" media reports of "Secret £30m GLC sell off"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 16 Tu Major Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Ridley ("Local authority needs assessment") ["arcane and complex"; possible ramifications of reform on community charge bills] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 17 We Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Local Government Bill") ["This letter deals with the proposed contents of the Bill, and any outstanding policy points"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 17 We Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Clarke ("Local Government legislation and the 'local employment' issue") ["fully support your policy of trying to secure the maximum benefit for local residents... I would be willing to consider any other means outside the Bill"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 18 Th Major Local Government: Hurd letter to Lady Porter (City of Westminster: proposed dog fouling byelaws) [Government view on the proposals] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 26 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("A prudential regime for local authorities") [progress report] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 26 Fr Minor Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("E(LF)") [MT agrees to have a DOE official on hand to answer technical questions on comunity charge; grants] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jun 29 Mo Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Non-commercial conditions in local authority contracts: local labour") ["form of words signalling the Government's commitment to the use of local labour in inner city projects"] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jul 1 We Major Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Opting-out of ILEA") [Education Bill; timescale; compulsory break-up of ILEA; issues associated with opting out] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Jul 10 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Reform of local government finance") [detail of action to be taken in response to No.10 request to "put across the case... more effectively"] [declassified Oct 2016]