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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 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 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 Key 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 9 Tu Major Local Government: Ridley minute to MT (Local Government and Housing Bill) [Community Charge Registration Officers] [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]
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 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 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]
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]