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1987 Jul 1 - 1987 Jul 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2306
Local Government (Future of the rating system; rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 206
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87 Jul 6 Mo Major Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The New Grant System") ["my unease about the high profile which the needs assessments will have under the new system"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 10 Fr Major Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [cost of transition, rating of empty commercial property, future revaluations, duty to consult business] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 28 Tu Major Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Exemptions") [discounted rate for students, compensation to authorities for the discounts] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 14 Tu Major Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Abolition of Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 1987 Commencement") ["at the political level, there may be some tendency to foot-dragging on the part of local authorities"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 13 Mo Major Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Abolition of Domestic Rating") ["Although the election results in Scotland were very bad I do not believe that rates reform was a major contributory factor"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 28 Tu Major Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Non-Domestic Rating") [power to override automatic indexations in Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 30 Th Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Moore ("Rate and Community Charge Rebates: Uprating of Income Support") ["We have been arguing that the introduction of the community charge will benefit many of those on low incomes"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 27 Mo Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Capping the Community Charge") [proposal to intervene and reduce authorities' charge at the start of the financial year] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 20 Mo Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge Exemptions") [exemptions for the mentally handicapped, residents of care homes, students, funding the exemptions] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 29 We Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transitional Arrangements") [starting level for the charge, phasing out of the rates, special arrangements for London] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 30 Th Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Dual Running: Rates and the Community Charge") [proposed dual running of domestic rates and community charge - proposals about collecting the rate] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 30 Th Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [enforcement procedures would apply to Crown property, including No 10] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 29 We Key Community Charge: No 10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley) [Ridley's "growing concern about opposition" to the charge; problem "increased by the decision to have a transition rather than to abolish rates immediately"; inclined to rethink some major aspects of the charge, which MT "discouraged firmly"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 3 Fr Major Community Charge: No 10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Major-Walker-Ridley-Waddington-Griffiths-Ingham) [MT "stressed the need for the Government to put across the case for the reform of local authority finance more effectively"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 24 Fr Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Community Charge Exemptions") [dual running of domestic rates and new charge, length of transition, level of initial charge] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 22 We Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Community Charge Exemptions") [exemptions for the mentally handicapped, those in care homes, discounts for students, compensation for local authorities] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 13 Mo Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transitional Arrangements") [two possible measures: a safety net grant, phasing out rates gradually] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 1 We Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [operation of the non-domestic rating pool, paying for transition, empty commercial property, duty to consult business] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 1 We Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("The New Local Authority Grant System") [a single grant is preferable, payment of grant] [released Feb 2016]
87 Jul 1 We Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") [doing without a transitional period, opting out, fallacies, capping, annual elections in London] [released Feb 2016]