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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 Feb 9 Fr Major 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]
89 Feb 26 Su Major Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Surplus Land and Dwellings") [survey on government holdings] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 17 Sa Major 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 16 Fr Major 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 Fr Major 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 28 We Major Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping and Local Authorities' Preparedness") [proposal to ensure that Community Charge Benefit, paid on charges later reduced by capping, is treated as an overpayment] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 21 We Major 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 20 Tu Major 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 5 Mo Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (Community Charge capping) [tight timetable will mean taking complex decisions] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 21 We Major 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 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 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 Feb 9 Fr Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [problems that are likely to occur from implementation] [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 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]
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 Mar 1 Th Major Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Patten PS ("Transitional Relief") [proposals based on government assumed spending of each local authority] [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 Feb 6 Tu Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Lamont-Hunt-Wilson) [arrangements for transitional relief] [released Dec 2016]