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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
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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 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 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 26 Th Minor Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Norman Lamont (publicity) [information on the Community Charge Benefit] [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 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 10 Tu Minor Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (Community Charge Rebates) [could publish information in local newspapers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 17 Tu Minor Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Peter Brooke ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [MT's concern that an announcement would give impresion that local government finance policies are getting out of line with the UK] [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 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 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: 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 23 Mo Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Retail Prices Index") [inclusion of the Charge in the Index] [released 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 4 We Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [local authority spending, burden on taxpayers] [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 18 We Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Draft Minute to the Lord President") [shift from domestic rates to community charge] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 24 Tu Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments] [released Dec 2016]