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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 4 Mon Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Ridley, Lawson, Major, Wakeham, Parkinson; officials) ["1989-90 RSG Settlement" - agreed loophole requires early action to close, subject to legal advice] [declassified Feb 2018]
88 Jul 28 Thu Local Government: Ridley letter to Baker ("Consultation with local government") [the way forward] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 27 Wed Local Government: Ridley letter to Parkinson ("Rate Support Grant Bill") [scheduling; main provisions; necessary action] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 26 Tue 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 26 Tue Local Government: Major PS letter to No.10 ("The New Planning Total") [press notice & Q+A briefing to accompany White Paper publication] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 18 Mon Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [difference of views with MT over exemptions] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 14 Thu 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 Tue Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("The Government's Response to the Widdicombe Report") [unresolved educational matters] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 11 Mon Local Government: Major minute to MT ("New Planning Total") [draft White Paper; key points] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 8 Fri 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 7 Thu 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 Thu Local Government: Wyn Roberts PS letter to No.10 ("RSG Settlement 1989/90 etc") [statement to Parliament] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 7 Thu Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Specific Grants to Local Authorities on Loan Charges") ["I am writing to seek your approval for a brief provision in next session's Housing and Local Government Bill"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 6 Wed Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Rate Support Grant Settlement") [key points from E(LA) meeting; Attorney General advice; Ridley draft Statement to Parliament; key points for Cabinet meeting] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 6 Wed Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("RSG Presentation") ["in particular, how we can most satisfactorily defend the agreement we have reached"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 4 Mon Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Wakeham, Parkinson, Major) ["1989-90 RSG Settlement"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 1 Fri Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("1989-90 RSG Settlement") [key issues; MT annotates her key concerns in advance of meeting] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jun 29 Wed 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 23 Thu Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local authority capital: consultation document") [Ridley/Major dispute about "risk of a surge of... spending on repairs and maintenance prior to the introduction of the new capital regime in 1990"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tue 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]