1979 May 25 - 1982 Jun 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/829
Local government (Future of the rating system; rating revaluation; Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates) (Part 1)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2012 Dec 28 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 280 |
| Any docs withheld? |
PREM19/829 - download whole file (PDF, 52.75 MB)
Selections from this file
Showing items 1 - 19 of 19
Per page:
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 79 May 25 Fr | Major | Rates: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, John Stanley) [housing sector; domestic rates] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Jun 19 Tu | Major | Rates: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Rating revaluation (C(79) 21”) [MT compliments Heseltine on “excellent paper”] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Jun 20 We | Major | Rates: No.10 letter to Department of the Environment (Rating revaluation) [“decided to cancel… while we sort out the longer term future of the rating system”] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Aug 16 Th | Major | Rates: Lawson letter to Tom King (“Local Government Finance Bill: Rating Items”) [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Nov 20 Tu | Major | Rates: Heseltine letter to Howe (“Future of Rating”) [“increasing pressure to say what we are doing”] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jun 2 Mo | Major | Rates: MT letter to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP (Domestic rating system) [“objective to abolish”] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jul 25 Fr | Major | Rates: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Tom King) [“Reform of the Rate System”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 9 Mo | Major | Rates: Younger letter to Heseltine (“Future of the Rates”) [MT: “We are still committed to abolishing”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Major | Rates: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Future of Rating”) [MT: “They already know my views on this”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Key | Rates: Rifkind minute to MT (Scottish Conservative Conference debate on domestic rates) [“rates are… becoming an explosive political issue”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Major | Rates: Cabinet Office briefing to MT (“Local authority expenditure: reform of rates: accounts commission (E(81) 53 and 54”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 9 Mo | Major | Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates) [revised draft] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Major | Rates: Younger letter to MT (“Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates”) [clash with rating revaluation in Scotland] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 4 Fr | Major | Rates: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Green Paper on domestic rates”) [proposed amendments] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 15 Tu | Major | Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (“Local Government Finance Bill/ statement on Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Major | Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (“Future legislation on rates”) [timescale] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 3 We | Major | Rates: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Alternatives to domestic rates: next steps”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 18 Fr | Major | Rates: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Ministerial group on local government organisation: alternatives to domestic rates”) [MT: “I am totally against a local income tax”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 2 Sa | Major | Rates: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Tom King) [“Future of the Rating System”] [declassified 2012] |