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1990 Jan 2 - 1990 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3063
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 16)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 336
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89 Jan 3 Tu Major Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge") [meeting to discuss possible further concession on the local authority grants settlement] [released Dec 2016]
89 Feb 26 Su Major Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Surplus Land and Dwellings") [survey on government holdings] [released Dec 2016]
89 Dec 1 Fr Minor Community Charge: Surrey County Council letter to Surrey MPs ("Community Charge") [likely charge for each of the local districts, council budget] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 3 We Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") [will lay reports to determine the settlement; establishment of unified business rate] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 4 Th Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Patten-Lawson-Hunt-Renton-Mills) [backbench rebellion, grant settlement] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 8 Mo Minor Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("1990/91 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [how to respond to picture presented by own folk in local government] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 10 We Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (local authority grant settlement) [reports to be tabled; information campaign on benefits] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 10 We Major Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Community Charge") [timetable for laying local authority grants settlement reports] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 11 Th Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Non-Domestic Rating") [phasing down non-domestic poundages in Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 12 Fr Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge") [Patten's officials working on a possible fall-back package] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 15 Mo Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting with John Marshall and Sydney Chapman") [situation in Barnet] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 16 Tu Major Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("1990/91 Local Authority Grant Settlement") ["no neat, simple and cheap solution that will secure the support of a large number of rebels"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 16 Tu Minor Community Charge: Patten PS to Paul Gray ("Revenue Support Grant Settlement") [possible defeat on RSG reports to be debated] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 16 Tu Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement") [fall-back possibilities, consequences of a parliamentary loss] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 16 Tu Minor Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("1990/92 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [Patten's options for Barnet] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 16 Tu Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Marshall MP) [implications of local authority grant settlement for Barnet] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 19 Fr Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT- Howe, Major, Patten, Lamont, Renton, Hunt, Butler, Wilson, Mills) [Local Authority Grant Settlement] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 19 Fr Minor Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Community Charge Debate") [Hansard for the day] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 22 Mo Major Community Charge: MT personal minute to Chris Patten (thanks for hard work) ["local government finance is a subject of fiendish complexity"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 22 Mo Major Community Charge: MT personal letter to Chris Patten (thanks for hard work) ["superb way" Patten and Hunt have put forward the government's case] [released Dec 2016]