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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
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89 Jan 13 Fr Major Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("Local authority capital: arrangements for 1989 survey") [new system for local authority capital spending] [declassified July 2017]
89 Mar 7 Tu Major Local Government: Walker PS letter to Major PS ("Local authority interest rate swaps") ["concern that the transactions might be ultra vires"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Mar 28 Tu Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Lord Young ("National Exhibition Centre: Local Government and Housing Bill") ["effect of... proposals on local authority interests in companies"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Feb 21 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Major) ["Local authority swaps and options: Hammersmith and Fulham"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Feb 10 Fr Major Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Local authority capital finance: stabilisation measures") ["to prevent an unacceptable surge in... spending over the next 14 months"] [declassified July 2017]
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]