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1989 Aug 1 - 1989 Oct 1
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2765
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 14)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 324
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89 Sep 8 Fri Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") ["I do recognize we are faced with a potentially difficult parliamentary situation"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Sep 6 Wed Local Government: Patten minute to MT ("Local authority grant settlement") ["There is a good deal of political pressure developing [over community charge] ... and I have therefore also been considering some possible modifications"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Aug 7 Mon Local Government: Ralph Howell memorandum ("An Alternative to the Community Charge") ["The Community Charge is a major mistake and should be abandoned"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Aug 2 Wed Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Peter Walker ("Formula Rating Reviews") [assessments for industries whose rateable values are determined by statutory formula] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 5 Tue Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Exemptions for the Community Charge") [amendments to the exemption for those on whose behalf child benefit is payable] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 22 Fri Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Wakeham ("Formula Rating Review") [rateable value for British Gas] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 22 Fri Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Cecil Parkinson ("Formula Rating Review: Transport Industries") [method for fixing rateable values] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 9 Sat Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Review: Transport Industries") [method for fixing rateable values on the basis of turnover] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 14 Thu Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe (legislation) [revisions to the bill] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 30 Sat Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge: Publicity") ["We are starting from a fairly good base"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 11 Mon Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Review") ["current arrangements are anomalous"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 27 Wed Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Relief") [is a scheme for individuals justified, changes to the safety net] [released Dec 2016]
89 Aug 10 Thu Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Community Charge Benefit") [capital limit for pensioner couples] [released Dec 2016]
89 Aug 3 Thu Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (publicity) [encouraging awareness of rebates] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 12 Tue Community Charge: James Douglas-Hamilton minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Review") [rateable value for industries - experience in Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 26 Tue Community Charge: James Douglas-Hamilton minute to Chris Patten ("Personal Community Charge: Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired") [legislative changes to definition "proving increasingly controversial and difficult to justify"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 11 Mon Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge: Publicity") [Scottish experience of publicising the rebates scheme] [released Dec 2016]
89 Aug 28 Mon Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Geoffrey Howe ("MPs and the Community Charge") [Additional Costs Allowance] [released Dec 2016]
89 Aug 21 Mon Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Norman Lamont ("Application of Surplus Local Authority Receipts") [suggestion of transferring surplus receipts to other bodies] [released Dec 2016]
89 Aug 29 Tue Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Reviews") [valuations based on a methodology consistent with rating valuation principles] [released Dec 2016]