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1990 May 2 - 1990 Jun 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3066
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 19)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 519
Any docs withheld? 1

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90 Jun 15 Fr Major Community Charge: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Charge Capping Case") [judicial review judgment "a resounding victory for the Government"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Community Charge: Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Community Charge Review") [resistence in Whitehall to idea of new legislation on income limits in time for next year] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 22 Fr Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [implementing a system of income limits under existing powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 15 Tu Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [basic problem of how to control local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 11 Fr Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office note ("The Community Charge") [controlling local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office note ("The Community Charge") [controlling local authority spending, community charges in 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 4 Mo Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office note ("The Community Charge. Enhanced Community Charge Capping Coupled with Referendums") [options for use of stronger capping powers that could be applied to more authorities] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 19 Tu Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to Patten PS ("The Community Charge") [use of existing capping powers versus use of new regime plus referendums] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 11 Mo Major Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping") [potential implications for final caps on delivery of education] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 15 Tu Major Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("The Community Charge: Next Action") [keeping down local authority spending, public relations on high charges, prolonging the controversy] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 16 We Major Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Possible Community Charge Legislation: Implications for Legislative Programme") ["impractical to try to rush through the drafting and enactment of such a complex and contentious measure"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 4 Mo Major Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Holiday Caravans: Standard Community Charge and Business Rates") [valuation of caravans has not been harmonised between Scotland England] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 20 We Major Community Charge: Peter Brooke minute to Chris Patten ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [distinction between domestic and business revaluation, difficulty of making an announcement] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 2 We Major Community Charge: Earl of Arran minute to David Hunt (local government finance) [making special payments to alleviate problems caused by introduction of new system] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 3 Th Major Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge and US Service Personnel") [intention to pay compensation to certain parishes in England] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 3 Th Major Community Charge: Newton PS minute to No 10 ("Allowance in Income Support for Minimum Contribution to the Community Charge") [MT's commitments on rebates] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 15 Tu Major Community Charge: Attorney General's Chambers to Department of Environment ("Community Charge") [local government grants and spending] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 31 Th Major Community Charge: No.10 letter to Patten PS (press stories about non-payment) [asks for note on latest state of play] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 21 Mo Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Baker-Rifkind-Wakenham-Patten-Hunt-Lamont) [system of limits on income of local authorities with largest budgets] [released Dec 2016]
90 Jun 15 Fr Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Patten-Lamont-Renton-Portillo) [enhanced capping powers coupled with referenda] [released Dec 2016]