1979 May 11 - 1984 Mar 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1270
Housing (Policy on the sale of council houses; the right to buy)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 184 |
| Any docs withheld? |
PREM19/1270 - download whole file (PDF, 26.83 MB)
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 79 May 11 Fr | Major | Housing: Heseltine minute to MT (sale of Council houses) [Ministerial consent to local authorities to offer increased discounts] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 79 Nov 30 Fr | Major | Housing: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 (revised general consent to Council house sales) ['Right to Buy' legislation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Jan 11 Fr | Major | Housing: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Sale of Council Houses: Financial Appraisal") [press release & report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Sep 3 We | Major | Housing: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 (consent for the discretionary sale of Council houses: press release) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 May 13 We | Major | Housing: John Stanley note to MT ('Right to Buy': progress in London) [statistics] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jun 4 Th | Major | Housing: Heseltine PS minute to Pym PS ("Right to Buy") [Government intervention to speed up sale of local authority housing] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Sep 12 Sa | Major | Housing: John Stanley note to MT ('Right to Buy' booklet) [publication/copy of booklet] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Oct 1 Th | Major | Housing: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (Government Response to Second Report of Select Committee on the Environment) [Council house sales] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Nov 20 Fr | Major | Housing: Heseltine minute to MT ('Right to Buy': Norwich) [Government intervention on behalf of Council tenants] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Dec 3 Th | Major | Housing: Michael Pattison minute to MT ("Mr Heseltine's Statement on Right to Buy, Norwich") [Government intervention on behalf of Council tenants] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Feb 10 We | Major | Housing: Gow minute to MT ("Housing Act 1980 - Exclusion of Leasehold Properties from the Right to Buy") [case for Bill to be passed urgently due to "sense of betrayal" of Conservative-voting constituents] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Mar 15 Mo | Major | Housing: Heseltine letter to Jopling ('Right to Buy') [legislation for tenants in leasehold dwellings & in charitable housing association publicly-funded dwellings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Jun 22 Tu | Major | Housing: John Stanley PS minute to No.10 ('Right to Buy') [press notice on progress] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Oct 13 We | Major | Housing: No.10 Policy Unit letter to Heseltine ("Council House Sales") ["ways of encouraging hesitant buyers"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Dec 10 Fr | Major | Housing: Heseltine minute to MT ("Council House Sales: the Right to Buy") [publicity leaflet 'mail drop' proposal; MT asks for examples of precedents] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Major | Housing: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Low-Start Mortgages") [rent-based mortgages] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Major | Housing: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Right to Buy") [publicity leaflet 'mail drop'] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 7 Mo | Major | Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) ['Right to Buy': publicity leaflet 'mail drop' idea abandoned] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Major | Housing: Tim Lankester minute to MT (Housing and Building Control Bill) [Jenkin amendments: right to buy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 23 Mo | Major | Housing: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ('Right to Buy' scheme: performance of local authorities) [PQ request for list; MT advised that Barnet performing poorly] [declassified Jan 2014] |