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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 7 Th Minor Community Charge: Lord Belstead minute to Chris Patten ("Local Government and the Housing Bill: Exemptions for the Community Charge") [correct any faults in an existing exemption] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 8 Fr Major 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 8 Fr Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge and the Safety Net") [local authority grant settlement] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 8 Fr Major Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") [perception that something needs to be done to ease the safety net problem] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 9 Sa Minor 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 11 Mo Minor Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Review") ["current arrangements are anomalous"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 11 Mo Minor Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge: Publicity") [Scottish experience of publicising the rebates scheme] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 11 Mo Minor Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to David Hunt ("Community Charges: Standard Spending Assessments") [proposed new methodology] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 12 Tu Major Community Charge: James Douglas-Hamilton minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Review") [rateable value for industries - experience in Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 12 Tu Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Formula Rating Review") ["no single method can be applied satisfactorily across the board"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 12 Tu Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") [should further changes be made to proposals for 1990-91] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 12 Tu Minor Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Charge: Standard Spending Assessments") [difficult to arrive at formula that uses reliable data] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 13 We Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge and the Safety Net") [Patten and Lawson "will adopt fiercely opposed positions"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 14 Th Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe (legislation) [revisions to the bill] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 14 Th Key Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Baker-Patten-Major) [local authority grant settlement - expectations of transition problems] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 14 Th Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Future Handling of Work on Community Charge") [preparation for meeting groups] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 15 Fr Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Formula Rating Review") [Patten says his proposals are the best available] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 15 Fr Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Form of the Community Charge Bill") [latest amendments] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 18 Mo Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Patten PS ("Formula Rating Review") [maximum effort should be made to return to conventional rating in context of 1995 revaluation] [released Dec 2016]
89 Sep 18 Mo Minor Community Charge: Christopher Chope minute to John MacGregor ("Community Charges: Standard Spending Assessments") [proposed framework] [released Dec 2016]