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Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant and Rate Capping: Total Expenditure") ["we are faced with an extremely serious problem... [since 1980] we have calculated a local authority's "total expenditure"... in a way that we must now acknowledge to have no lawful basis"] [declassified Oct 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/2299 f201
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Environment, Local government, Local government finance, Judiciary, Parliament, Union of UK nations