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1990 Mar 1 - 1990 Mar 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3064
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 17)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 429
Any docs withheld? 2

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90 Mar 12 Mo Minor Community Charge: Lord President's Office minute to No 10 ("Community Charge") [Howe's liability] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 22 Th Minor Community Charge: Major PS minute to DTI ("Increased Capital Limits for Means-Tested Benefits") [confusion about number of people who will gain from the measure] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 9 Fr Minor Community Charge: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("The Community Charge and the RPI") [transition relief and student discounts in calculation of RPI] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 29 Th Major Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [proposed approach would require legislation for Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 20 Tu Minor Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge in Scotland") ["likely that criticism in Scotland will continue"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 21 We Minor Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT (assistance to local authorities) [scope of proposed measure] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 13 Tu Minor Community Charge: Mark Lennox-Boyd note to Gray (brief MT for meeting with Ralph Howell MP on his alternative to community charge) ["will be a waste of time, but ... will have to do it to keep his frustration at bay"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 28 We Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Lyell minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [justifiable for legislation to have retrospective effect] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 29 Th Key Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Lamont-Patten-Portillo) [MT: "with community charge at the present level, the system was leading to an intolerable burden"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 21 We Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Patten-Moore-Lamont) [capital limit for entitlement to benefit] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 28 We Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Patten-Waddington-Baker-Clarke-Lyell and others) [capping for 1990-91] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 26 Mo Key Community Charge: No.10 record of conversations (MT-Major-Lamont-Portillo; joined by Butler, Wilson, Mills) [MT concluded that "the general public were blaming the Government for the high levels of community charge"; suggested proposals for radical review from 1991/92 on] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 28 We Minor Community Charge: No.10 to Lord President's Office ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [MT content for announcement of short bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 5 Mo Minor Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Howe PS ("Treatment of Capital Debt in the New Revenue Support Grant") [methodology for calculation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 26 Mo Major Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Paul Gray ("Charge Capping 1990/91") [authorities to be capped, criteria for selecting authorities, size of cap] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 30 Fr Minor Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Paul Gray (Solihull) [brief for meeting with Iain Mills and John Taylor] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 12 Mo Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge and the RPI") [establishment of a new advisory committee] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 21 We Major Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Capping") ["a very difficult issue to resolve"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 26 Mo Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Capping") [capping criteria, arguments against capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Mar 23 Fr Major Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Capping") [Patten thinks "it would be politically unacceptable to back down after all that has been said about the capping threat"] [released Dec 2016]