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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 27 Tu Minor Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Holiday Caravans & Standard Community Charge") [announcement of short bill, issue of long-stay hospital patients] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 5 Th Minor Community Charge: Robert Twigger letter to Mark Lennox-Boyd ("Community Charge Benefit") [points in each local authority where full charge becomes payable] [released Dec 2016]
90 Feb 19 Mo Major Local government: Mills letter to Hunt ("Community Charge: meeting with the Conservative group of the Solihull Council") [ "Each Councillor voiced total disenchantment with the way in which the Community Charge legislation is operating...I do urdge you to meet with us as soon as possible"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 25 Su Major Local government: No.10 conversation record ("Community Charge") [MT, Major phone conversation: MT - "contrary to earlier expectations, the community charge regime was not bringing about increased accountability...it was necessary to consider radical futher measures"; JM: agrees but states that "important to give no flavour of exactly what possibilities were being looked at"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 29 Th Major Local government: Turnbull minute for MT ("Community Charge: the way forward") ["the next moves in the efforts to secure wider acceptance of the Community Charge"] [declassified Dec 2016]