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1989 Jun 1 - 1989 Jul 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2764
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 355
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89 Jun 30 Fri Local Government: Ridley PS minute to No.10 ("Grant settlement: safety nets, etc") ["a number of further exemplifications of possible alternative treatments of the safety net"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jun 30 Fri Local Government: Gray minute for No.10 ("Community Charge Safety Nets") [MT: "Baffling! More & more variations"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Jul 21 Fri Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major (publicity) [current initiatives, next campaign push] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 19 Wed Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Exemptions from the Community Charge") [provision for school-age foster children] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 5 Wed Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Harmonisation of Rating: Decapitalisation Rate") [consutlation, views on proposed rates] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 8 Thu Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Standard Community Charge") [adverse publicity diverting attention from positive points] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 29 Thu Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Standard Community Charge") [proposed multiplier not acceptable in Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 18 Tue Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Scottish Community Charge Provisions") [formula valued industries] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 28 Wed Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Standard Community Charge") [allow charging authorities more discretion where affects seem unduly hard] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 20 Tue Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Decapitalisation Rate") [common rate of six percent across the border] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 10 Mon Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Scottish Community Charge Provisions") [amendments to charging structure, formula rated industries] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 6 Thu Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Standard Community Charge") [use of maximum multipliers] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 5 Wed Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Revenue Support Grant Settlement 1990/91: The Safety Net") [reasonable for some of the losses from moving to the new system to come through in the first year] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 5 Wed Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("1989 Grant Settlement") [alterntive to the term "needs grant"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 7 Wed Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Uniform Business Rate and Revaluation: Transitional Arrangements") [amendments to proposals to phase in effect of new system] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 1 Thu Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley briefing for MT ("Meeting with colleagues on the Community Charge Safety Net - Tuesday 6 June") [notes on options for change, individual constituencies] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 28 Wed Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Decapitalisation Rate") [proposals for a general rate, concessionary rate are acceptable] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 20 Tue Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Standard Community Charge") [bringing the system in Scotland more into line with England and Wales] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 15 Thu Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Uniform Business Rate and Revaluation: Transitional Arrangements") [proposal to remove transitional relief from a propert on change of occupant] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 5 Wed Community Charge: John Wakeham minute to Nicholas Ridley ("MPs and Community Charge") [reimbursement of standard charges but not personal charges] [released Dec 2016]