Archive

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 Tu Major Community Charge: John Major minute to MT (local authority finances) [proposals for generating additional income, fairness issue] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 We Minor Community Charge: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("Retail Price Index") [issues for economic policy, public acceptance] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 12 Th Minor Community Charge: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("RPI and the Community Charge") [concern over level of RPI and artificial element created by inclusion of Community Charge] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 19 Th Minor Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont (benefit arrangements) [proposals for additional publicity on rebates, experience in Scotland] [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 9 Mo Major Community Charge: MT minute to John Major (RPI) [inclusion of community charge reliefs; possible surcharge for incomes over £50,000 p.a.] [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 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]
90 Apr 26 Th Minor 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 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: 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 27 Fr Major 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 6 Fr Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Baker-Patten-Lamont-Hunt-Butler-Wilson-Wells-Mills) [government "currently in the eye of the storm over the introduction of the community charge"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 17 Tu Minor Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Rebates: Additional Publicity") [budget to finance advertisements] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Th Minor 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 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 24 Tu Major Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Community Charge") [data on transitional relief proposals] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 23 Mo Major Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments; liability for non-working wives] [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]