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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 420
Any docs withheld?

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90 Apr 24 Tue Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Community Charge") [data on transitional relief proposals] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 24 Tue Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 24 Tue Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [policy package, assessment] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 24 Tue Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure Control") [Patten's proposals for a control system are too complex to get ready for next year] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 24 Tue Community Charge: John Major minute to MT (local authority finances) [proposals for generating additional income, fairness issue] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Local Government: Rifkind minute to MT ("The Community Charge") ["I thought you might find it helpful to have my views in light of one year's Scottish experience of the community charge"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping and the Retail Prices Index") [the lower capped charges should be included in the index] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [level of charge, local government spending, policy package] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge [Minutes from the Secretary of State for the Environment (23 April) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (24 April)]") [decisions needed to secure better control over local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge: The Question of 'Fairness'") [Patten's proposals for national supplements, but Major thinks not the right way to go] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Community Charge: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("Retail Price Index") [issues for economic policy, public acceptance] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 Wed Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Community Charge") [Whips think "the dust is settling a bit"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Thu Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Norman Lamont (publicity) [information on the Community Charge Benefit] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Thu Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to David Hunt ("Community Charge and US Servicemen") [feeling in Suffolk; reluctant that special help should be given to deal with this localised problem] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Thu Community Charge: No.10 minute to MT ("The Community Charge - Further Work") [controlling growth in local authority spending, perceived fairness of the system] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 27 Fri Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Hunt-Baker-Rifkind-Patten-Lamont) [new regime "had been introduced because other measures of control had failed"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 30 Mon Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major (RPI and Community Charge) [capping decisions] [released Dec 2016]