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1990 Apr 2 - 1990 Apr 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3065
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 18)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 420
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90 Apr 2 Mo Minor Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (capped authorities) [expectation of wild claims that capping will disprupt services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 2 Mo Minor Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [proposals for a revaluation of business rates then domestic rates] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 2 Mo Minor Community Charge: No.10 minute to MT (Community Charge Benefit Forms) [problem with long, badly designed forms] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 3 Tu Minor Community Charge: No.10 minute to Northern Ireland Office ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [MT' not convinced revaluation is urgently required] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 3 Tu Minor Community Charge: Nicholas Lyell minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping 1990/91") [how to rebut claims that capping will disrupt services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 3 Tu Major Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge: Relieving the Burden") [extra transitional relief scheme for 1990, spending limitations for 1991] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 3 Tu Minor Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Major PS (capital limits in Scotland) [arrangements for introducing proposed scheme] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 3 Tu Minor Community Charge: No.10 minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Benefit Forms") [MT accepts local authorities must be responsible for design of own forms] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 4 We Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [local authority spending, burden on taxpayers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 4 We Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge [Minute from the Secretary of State for the Environment of 3 April]") [decisions to be made on changes to regime for 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 4 We Minor Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Major PS ("Community Charge: Special Payment Scheme") [draft statement] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 5 Th Major Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Community Charge") [MT commitment not to claim transitional relief] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 5 Th Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Rebates") [raising awareness of the benefit] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 5 Th Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS (income levels) [statistics for local authorities] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 5 Th Major Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Surplus Land and Dwellings") [some departments have failed to achieve the vacancy rate targets] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr Minor Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT (capping) [Lambeth's revised budget] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr Minor Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (capping) [questions and answers for cabinet discussions] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Suprlus Land and Dwellings") [need for better systems and policy for managing government-held land and dwellings] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr Minor Community Charge: Moore PS minute to No.10 ("Community Charge Benefit") [methodology for assessing entitlement] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr Minor Community Charge: No.10 minute to Foreign Office ("Community Charge: Chevening") [possibility that trustees will be responsible for any charge payable] [released Dec 2016]