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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 336
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90 Jan 22 Mon Community Charge: Welsh Office to No 10 ("Welsh Local Government Finance Debate: 24 January 1990") [draft opening speech] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jan 23 Tue Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Barnet Community Charge") [two possible approaches to grant settlement] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 2 Fri Community Charge: Patten PS to Paul Gray ("Transitional Relief") [basis for fixing the assumed community charges] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 2 Fri Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Relief") [range of proposals] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 5 Mon Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (Community Charge capping) [tight timetable will mean taking complex decisions] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 5 Mon Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Transitional Relief") [proposed £3 cap on transitional relief] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 6 Tue Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Lamont-Hunt-Wilson) [arrangements for transitional relief] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 9 Fri Community Charge: Ingham minute to MT ("Community Charge") [conversation with Shirley Porter, about to announce Westminster City Council charge under £200; coming week "CRUCIAL, PARTICULARLY IN THE PRESENTATION OF THE COMMUNITY CHARGE"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 9 Fri Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [problems that are likely to occur from implementation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 9 Fri Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Meeting with Colleagues on 13 February") [issues still to be faced, views on the "Higgins Scheme"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 12 Mon Community Charge: Patten PS to Paul Gray (levels of community charges) [tables for meeting] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 12 Mon Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("The Community Charge") [student nurses, savings rule for pensioners] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 13 Tue Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Lamont-Renton-Hunt-Mills-Wilson) [transitional relief, concessions] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 16 Fri Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping") [attaches great importance to the policy; options for implementation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 16 Fri Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping") [accepts political arguments for suggested timetable, but has "unattractive consequences" for Community Charge Benefit] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 17 Sat Community Charge: Charles Powell minute to MT (charge capping) [supported by Nick Lyell, David Madel and Conservative group on Bedfordshire council] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 20 Tue Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Cecil Parkinson ("Treatment of Capital Debt in the New Revenue Support Grant") ["there is little I can do at this stage"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 21 Wed Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Tony Newton ("Community Charge Capping") [open to local authorities to set lower substitute charges] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 21 Wed Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (local authorities' budgeting decisions) [position looks like it will turn out to be worse than expected] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 23 Fri Community Charge: Howe PS minute to Patten PS ("Treatment of Capital Debt in the New Revenue Support Grant") [proposals are "very far from being an entirely comfortable position to defend"] [released Dec 2016]