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1990 Mar 1 - 1991 Apr 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3429
Local Government (Relations between central and local government: local authority expenditure; Local Government Review; structure of local government) (Part 38)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 423
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90 Oct 25 Th Minor Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Merseyside) [police will be staging major operation; allegations against the city council] [released July 2017]
90 May 3 Th Minor Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robin Butler ("Functions of Local Authorities") [additional burdens on authorities, existing functions of authorities] [released July 2017]
90 May 18 Fr Minor Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robin Butler ("Functions of Local Authorities") [which level of government has control over education] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS) and Standard Spending Assessment (SSA)") [options for distribution] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 28 Fr Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS)") [technical aspects of the settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 24 Tu Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("New Burdens on Local Government") [impact of central government initiatives] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [possible outcomes of Lords' judgment on Hammersmith case] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 23 Mo Major Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Welsh Local Authority Settlement") [dispute between Hunt and Lamont] [released July 2017]
90 Jun 22 Fr Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit ("Local Government: Some Longer-Term Issues") [MT concerned that the charge "would provide an insufficiently buoyant source of local revenue"] [released July 2017]
90 May 17 Th Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office note for MT ("Functions of Local Authorities") [scope for exercising greater central government control] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo Minor Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report 1989/90") [concerns about local authorities who lost out in the way debt has been handled] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 23 Mo Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("New Burdens on Local Government") [lists of central government initiatives] [released July 2017]
90 Apr 24 Tu Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor ("1991-92 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [changes sought by local authority associations] [released July 2017]
90 Mar 2 Fr Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor ("1991/92 Local Authority Grant Settlement") [discussing spending with local authority associations] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor ("New Burdens on Local Government") [lists of central government initiatives] [released July 2017]
90 Aug 8 We Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Financial Assets") [proposed legislation to require authorities to redeem debt] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [Hammersmith and Fulham case before the Lords for a judgment] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [proposed revisions] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 5 We Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [suggestions for keeping pressures of policy on local authority spending in check] [released July 2017]