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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
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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 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 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 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 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 3 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant: Greenwich court case") [background & next steps] [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 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]