1985 Dec 2 - 1986 May 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1835
Local Government (Relations with central government, organisation & finance) (Part 29)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 344 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Dec 2 Mo | Minor | Local Government: Norgrove minute for Michael Alison (Widdicombe Inquiry into the conduct of local authority business) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Minor | Local Government: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Major | Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (Michael Heseltine) [denied access to restricted circulation E(LF) papers] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 4 We | Minor | Local Government: Younger letter to Kenneth Baker ("Sale of local authority mortgages") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("E(LF)(85)19: Local Authority capital expenditure control") ["...how the present system of capital control on net expenditure might be modified..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local Authority capital expenditure controls") ["...implications for a reformed system... of the assurances given in the past to local authorities about use of capital receipts..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local governement finance: specific grants") [Lawson-chaired working group interim report on "...the role and extent of specific grants in funding local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils") ["...now evidence of concerted efforts to spend as much as possible... before abolition... In the case of the GLC... giving money to organisations... involved in perpetuating the policies of the GLC... we must introduce legislation"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 10 Tu | Major | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Biffen, Mayhew, MacGregor, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 11 We | Major | Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding") [consideration of measures to curb and control spending] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, MacGregor, Mayhew, Baker, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1986/87) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Local Government: Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local authority capital expenditure") ["...proposals... in the Green Paper on Local Government Finance..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Major | Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Biffen PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Major | Local Government: Lynda Chalker letter to Tony Banks MP (taxicard scheme) [addressing her comments made in Parliament on proposed GLC revisions to the scheme and its cost-effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Major | Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 13 Mo | Minor | Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition: residuary bodies") [Chairmanship of the Merseyside Residuary Body] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Minor | Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Consultative Council on local government finance: expenditure groups' report") [improvement of existing arrangement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Major | Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge] |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Major | Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [statement to Parliament to launch Green Paper: "We are proposing... the replacement of rates with a flat-rate community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |