Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("The Burden of Business Rates in Scotland") [Allan: "I much prefer a more brutal approach"] [declassified Feb 2018]

Supporting documents follow. No trace has been found in this file or in PREM19 of the "v. dangerous" Ridley minute c26 Jan 1989 referred to by Allan in his note of that date. Perhaps it was withdrawn and hence no copy found its way to the No.10 file. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.