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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 Mo Major 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 Jun 6 Mo Major Local Government: Channon letter to Ridley ("PTAs under the new local government finance regime") ["consultation paper... as you requested... [highlighted] option of secession for districts which considered that their PTAs were overspending... most of the replies... have been hostile to the proposal"] [declassified July 2016]
88 May 19 Th Major Local Government: Channon letter to Wakeham ("Privatisation of local authority bus companies") ["writing to you to set out the situation"] [declassified July 2016]
88 May 23 Mo Major Local Government: Hurd minute to MT ("Brent: Grant under Section 11 of Local Government Act 1966") ["Our supporters in Brent are naturally worried about the scheme, given the history a couple of years ago"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Apr 11 Mo Major Local Government: Luce letter to Ridley ("Local government finance: fees and charges") [delay in legislating posing risk of librarian revolt] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 6 We Major 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 Apr 12 Tu Major Local Government: Major letter to Rifkind ("Local government capital spending: consultation paper") [Scotland] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 11 Mo Major Local Government: Major minute to MT ("New Planning Total") [draft White Paper; key points] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 26 Tu Major 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 1 Fr Major 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 Jul 6 We Major 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 Jun 23 Th Major 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 Apr 19 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local Government Finance Bill: Lords amendments") ["You may be interested to see the attached note from the Public Bill Office on the admissability of amendments in the Lords"] [declassified July 2016]
88 May 24 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["Brent: Grant under Section 11 of Local Government Act 1966"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 4 Mo Major Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Wakeham, Parkinson, Major) ["1989-90 RSG Settlement"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 28 Th Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Baker ("Consultation with local government") [the way forward] [declassified July 2016]
88 Apr 14 Th Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Hurd ("1989/90 RSG Settlement: operation of the expenditure working groups") [identifying scope for savings] [declassified July 2016]
88 Apr 14 Th Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Overseer Scheme") ["my reactions to the correspondence which has taken place and... the issues which I think we need to address at the [Committee] meeting"] [declassified July 2016]
88 Jul 7 Th Major 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 Apr 21 Th Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major (local authority capital controls) [follow-up to statement in Parliament on 9th March outlining changes to rules] [declassified July 2016]