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1988 Apr 5 - 1988 Jul 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2303
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 35)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 390
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88 Jul 8 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major (Local Government Finance Bill) ["costs of preparing for the rates reform package"; mechanism for distribution of resources to charging authorities] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 27 We Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Parkinson ("Rate Support Grant Bill") [scheduling; main provisions; necessary action] [declassified July 2016]
88 Apr 19 Tu Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("New burdens on local government") [enclosure & analysis of "the latest list of Central Government initiatives, having financial and manpower implications for local government"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 14 Th Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("Rate Support Grant Bill") [timing of legislation to close down existing RSG system] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 12 Tu Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("The Government's Response to the Widdicombe Report") [unresolved educational matters] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jun 29 We Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Circulars to Local Authorities") [report on the 9th year of exercise to reduce number of circulars] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jun 9 Th Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Local authority capital expenditure and finance") [draft consultation] [declassified July 2016]
88 Apr 15 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Regulating local authority involvement in companies") ["proposals designed to prevent local authorities from using their involvement in companies... to circumvent... financial and property controls"] [declassified July 2016]
88 May 13 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Regulating local authority involvement in companies") [response to concerns raised by MT and colleagues] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("The prescribed proportion of capital receipts") ["a note on the extent to which local authorities should be allowed to spend capital receipts in full within the financial year in which they are received" (controlling public expenditure) ] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 18 Mo Major Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [difference of views with MT over exemptions] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 26 Tu Major Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Local Government Finance (Scotland): RSG Settlement Annoucement for 1989-90") [statement to Parliament] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 7 Th Major Local Government: Wyn Roberts PS letter to No.10 ("Local Government Finance Announcement: Thursday 7 July") [closedown; Welsh RSG settlement; consultation paper on capital expenditure & finance] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 7 Th Major Local Government: Wyn Roberts PS letter to No.10 ("RSG Settlement 1989/90 etc") [statement to Parliament] [declassified July 2016]