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1987 Aug 3 - 1987 Nov 12
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2307
Local Government (Future of the rating system; rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 8)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 262
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87 Jul 31 Fr Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nigel Lawson ("Effects of Domestic Revaluation") [exercise to "illustrate the turbulence that might be expected" following a revaluation] [released Feb 2016]
87 Sep 28 Mo Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [legislation to abolish domestic rates, introduce community, recast non-domestic rating and grant arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
87 Nov 9 Mo Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [should be ready for introduction early next month] [released Feb 2016]
87 Oct 6 Tu Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [timetable for passage] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 11 Tu Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Scott minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Dual Running: Rates and the Community Charge") [need to ensure rebate system is simple] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 11 Tu Major Community Charge: Nicholas Scott minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Rate and Community Charge Rebates: Uprating of Income Support") [complications around timetabling, phasing in arrangements, and national social security systems] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 11 Tu Minor Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Dual Running: Rates and the Community Charge") [reservations about format of the Charge demand] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 11 Tu Major Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Effects of Domestic Revaluation") [proposals for a new study] [released Feb 2016]
87 Oct 26 Mo Minor Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("E(LF)") [transitional arrangements, capital controls] [released Feb 2016]
87 Sep 18 Fr Minor Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Effects of a Domestic Rate Revaluation") [opinion polls suggest government "has a long way to go in persuading the public to support the Community Charge proposals"] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 11 Tu Minor Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Role of the Treasurer") [support proposals to prevent illegal or imprudent spending decisions by local authorities] [released Feb 2016]
87 Nov 10 Tu Minor Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Transitional Arrangements for the Community Charge") [problems with earlier proposals, latest scheme] [released Feb 2016]
87 Sep 9 We Minor Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to MT (Transfer of Rating Responsibility to the Secretary of State for Wales) [MT agrees to proposal] [released Feb 2016]
87 Sep 3 Th Minor Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Adam Smith Institute Views on Community Charge") [requirements on households, privatising registration and collection] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 12 We Minor Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("Transfer of Rating Responsibility to the Secretary of State for Wales") [no objection to the proposal] [released Feb 2016]
87 Aug 11 Tu Minor Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Community Charge Exemptions") [student discount, rebates, disablement allowance] [released Feb 2016]
87 Sep 23 We Minor Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Wandsworth Rates") [likely impact of council's decisions] [released Feb 2016]
87 Sep 24 Th Minor Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Howe PS ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [rate for foreign diplomats] [released Feb 2016]
87 Oct 6 Tu Minor Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Rifkind PS ("Rates Reform: Crown Property") [prisons and hospitals should not be regarded as residential accommodation] [released Feb 2016]
87 Nov 11 We Minor Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("Publicity for the Community Charge in Scotland") [government information campaign about to begin] [released Feb 2016]