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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3068
Local Government (Relations between central and local government: local authority expenditure) (Part 37)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 346
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89 Jun 16 Fr Major Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local Government Finance 1990-91") [Ridley has reached agreement with Major on this year's grant settlement plus a new safety net] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 21 We Major Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Revenue Support Grant Settlement 1990/91") [latest Treasury thinking] [declassified July 2017]
90 Feb 8 Th Major Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Patten ("PWLB Quotas for 1990-91") [need to restrain local authority calls on Public Works Loan Board; MT: "perhaps we might consider why we have a PWLB at all"; relation to community charge levels] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 19 Mo Major Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1989") [Gray and Wilson talk with Major - "his feeling is that, if something more is to be done on the safety net, it is best done early"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 9 Fr Major Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1989") [MT wanting to be briefed before meeting of E(LF) on 22 Jun] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 16 Fr Major Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Local Government Finance - briefing with Richard Wilson") [state of play in talks between Ridley and Major] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 21 We Major Local Government: Gray minute for MT ("Meeting of E(LF): 22 June") ["John Major does think it would be possible to come up with a supplementary safety net package"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Sep 8 Fr Major Local Government: Griffiths minute for MT ("Local authority grant settlement") [supports Lawson's point that councils doing best from community charge also those campaigning hardest for Exchequer support; get chapter and verse] [declassified July 2017]
89 Sep 14 Th Major Local Government: Lamont letter to MacGregor ("Local authority current: distribution of total standard spending amongst services") [proposals; Policy Unit: "much criticism will emerge that the Government is seeking to impose a 'cuts' package... [leading to] higher community charges"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Sep 20 We Major Local Government: Lamont letter to Patten ("Local Authority capital: local councils with no outstanding debt") [legislative proposals "for the treatment of local authority capital receipts under the new capital finance regime"] [declassified July 2017]
90 Feb 14 We Major Local Government: Lamont letter to Patten ("Local Authority Current: arrangements for handling the 1990 Survey") [MT concurs with proposals for no significant changes to existing system] [declassified July 2017]
89 Dec 20 We Major Local Government: Lamont letter to Patten ("Local Government Finance") ["Any attempt to tinker further with the [grant] settlement at this stage would...seriously damage the credibility of the whole community charge policy"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Sep 7 Th Major Local Government: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton letter to Lamont ("New financial regime for local authorities: rent rebate subsidy") ["I felt I should let you know of my misgivings about this"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jul 12 We Major Local Government: Major PS note to No.10 (briefing on new planning total) [press briefing attached] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 27 Tu Major Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Role of local authorities") [summary & attached Policy Unit note] [declassified July 2017]
89 Dec 1 Fr Major Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local Authority Swaps: Hammersmith and Fulham") [MT rejects Governor of the Bank of England's offer to mediate between local authorities and banks: "a matter to be settled by the courts"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Sep 14 Th Key Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Baker, Patten, Lamont, David Hunt, Brian Griffiths) ["Local authority grant settlement"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Jun 28 We Key Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, John Gummer, Sir Terry Heiser) ["Role and structure of local government"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Nov 3 Fr Major Local Government: Patten letter to Howe ("New burdens on local government") ["latest list of central government initiatives"] [declassified July 2017]
89 Oct 17 Tu Major Local Government: Patten letter to Lamont ("Local Authority cash incentive schemes") ["to encourage council tenants to move into homes of their own, thus releasing urgently-needed vacancies for reletting"] [declassified July 2017]