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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 415
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89 Apr 26 Wed Local Government: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Role of local authorities") [MT "rather surprised" by Conservative County Council manifesto reference to no further significant structural reforms; was not consulted; requests meeting with Ridley and paper] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 9 Tue Local Government: Ridley minute to MT (Local Government and Housing Bill) [Community Charge Registration Officers] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 22 Mon 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 24 Wed Local Government: Rifkind letter to Ridley ("Local Government and Housing Bill") [amendments to Right to Buy provisions] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 24 Wed Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1990-91") ["particularly sensitive because it will be the first year of the community charge. The purpose of this informal meeting is... a chance to assess the position, in preparation for E(LF)"] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 25 Thu Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Role of local authorities") [stock-taking meeting; "[our] major programme of incremental reform ... is now resulting in a seachange in attitudes ... I would advise against another wave of radical reform in the immediate future"] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 25 Thu Local Government: Ridley letter to Rifkind (Local Government and Housing Bill) [proposed amendment] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 25 Thu Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Hammersmith and Fulham") ["swap transactions... legal proceedings may be initiated next week"] [declassified July 2017]
89 May 25 Thu 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]