Archive

1988 Aug 2 - 1989 May 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2762
Local Government (Relations between central and local government: local authority expenditure) (Part 36)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 415
Any docs withheld?

Selections from this file

Showing items 1 - 20 of 29

Per page:
Date Valuesort ascending Title
88 Dec 16 Fr Minor Local Government: Gummer PS letter to Parkinson PS ("Rate Support Grant 1989/90") [draft oral statement] [declassified July 2017]
88 Dec 6 Tu Minor Local Government: Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1989/90") [draft oral statement] [declassified July 2017]
88 Nov 15 Tu Minor Local Government: Rifkind letter to Tom King (period of disqualification on release from prison) [comments in relation to Scotland on proposed amendment to Local Government Act (NI) 1972] [declassified July 2017]
88 Aug 5 Fr Minor Local Government: Ridley letter to Baker (capitalisation of specific grants to local authorities) [credit approvals available for spending on education] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 9 Tu Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT (Local Government and Housing Bill) [Community Charge Registration Officers] [declassified July 2017]
88 Nov 25 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Simplified needs assessments") [consultation with local authorities: Major's agreement to Ridley paper subject to conditions] [declassified July 2017]
88 Dec 2 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Local authority fees and charges") ["a number of issues concerning the nature of the enabling power which remain to be resolved"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Mar 23 Th Major Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("Treatment of local authority current expenditure in the 1989 survey") [agreement on how to proceed] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jan 16 Mo Major Local Government: Luce letter to Ridley ("Local fees and charges") [draft statement to Parliament on "use [of] the Local Government Housing Bill to protect the core of the free public library service"] [declassified July 2017]
88 Nov 2 We Major Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("Local authority capital expenditure: cash limits and end year flexibility") ["we must act swiftly so as to remove any obligation to give local authorities this end year flexibility bonus"] [declassified July 2017]
88 Nov 28 Mo Major Local Government: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Local authority fees and charges") [MT's key concerns in relation to Major/Ridley dispute over provisions in Local Government and Housing Bill relating to local authority powers to set fees & charges for specific services] [declassified July 2017]
89 Feb 3 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Local government finance: consultation with local authority associations") ["my further proposals for handling the 1989 round"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Mar 8 We Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham (Local Government and Housing Bill: Audit Commission provision) [amendment to address "inadequacies in... powers to arrange for the certification of grant claims and other financial returns by local authorities"] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 24 We Major Local Government: Rifkind letter to Ridley ("Local Government and Housing Bill") [amendments to Right to Buy provisions] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 25 Th Major Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Parkinson, Major) ["Local Authority Grant Settlement 1990/91" - No.10 text with draft] [declassified July 2017]
89 Apr 19 We Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("New burdens on local government") ["latest list of Central Government initiatives"] [declassified July 2017]
88 Nov 18 Fr Major Local Government: Tony Newton letter to Ridley ("Local authority economic development") [proposed amendment to forthcoming annoucement; inner city regeneration] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 22 Mo Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1989") ["aim for sufficient grant ... that will ensure that community charges in the first year can (or could be) set at reasonable levels"] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 25 Th Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Hammersmith and Fulham") ["swap transactions... legal proceedings may be initiated next week"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Feb 15 We Major Local Government: Hurd letter to Ridley ("Local authority capital expenditure: law and order services") ["how I propose to integrate [them]... into the new capital control system"] [declassified July 2017]