1987 Mar 3 - 1987 Jul 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2300
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 32)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Oct 31 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 325 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 87 Jul 22 We | Major | Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Authority Needs Assessment") [main issues] [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 Jul 30 Th | Major | Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (public expenditure: local authorities) [proposed changes to planning & control systems in line with introduction of community charge] [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 Jul 16 Th | Major | Local Government: Channon letter to Ridley ("Passenger Transport Authorities under the new local government finance regime") [potential problems] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jul 23 Th | Major | Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("RSG Settlement Announcement") [Rate Support Grant 88/89: announcement to Parliament] [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 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 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 Jul 10 Fr | Major | Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("1988/89 RSG Settlement") ["The Chancellor feels very strongly that the settlement E(LA) is moving towards would excessive and damaging to the control of public spending"] [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 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 3 Tu | Major | Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant: Greenwich court case") [background & next steps] [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 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 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 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 Jun 26 Fr | Major | Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("A prudential regime for local authorities") [progress report] [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 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] |