1989 Aug 1 - 1989 Oct 1
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2765
Local Government (Future of the rating system: rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 14)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 324 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 89 Aug 1 Tu | Minor | Community Charge: Lord Sanderson minute to Lord Belstead ("Local Government and the Housing Bill: Exemptions for the Community Charge") [child benefit exemptions, legislative pressure] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 2 We | Major | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Peter Walker ("Formula Rating Reviews") [assessments for industries whose rateable values are determined by statutory formula] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 3 Th | Major | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (publicity) [encouraging awareness of rebates] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 7 Mo | Major | Local Government: Ralph Howell memorandum ("An Alternative to the Community Charge") ["The Community Charge is a major mistake and should be abandoned"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 8 Tu | Minor | Community Charge: Lord Belstead minute to Lord Sanderson ("Local Government and the Housing Bill: Exemptions for the Community Charge") [exemptions for those fostering children] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 8 Tu | Minor | Community Charge: Caroline Slocock minute to MT ("Capital Limit for Community Charge Benefit") [extension to pensioner couples] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 8 Tu | Major | Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Community Charge Benefit") [capital limit for pensioners] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 9 We | Minor | Community Charge: Caroline Slocock minute to Patten PS ("Formula Rating Reviews") [MT cannot accept proposed approach] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 9 We | Major | Community Charge: Caroline Slocock minute to Newton PS ("Capital Limit for Community Charge Benefit") [proposals would increase the numbers dependent on benefit] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 10 Th | Minor | Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Community Charge Benefit") [capital limit for pensioner couples] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 18 Fr | Minor | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Geofrey Howe ("MPs and the Community Charge") ["we have maintained consistently that the Community Charge... is not a property tax"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 21 Mo | Minor | Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Norman Lamont ("Application of Surplus Local Authority Receipts") [suggestion of transferring surplus receipts to other bodies] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 21 Mo | Minor | Community Charge: David Hunt minute to John MacGregor ("Community Charge: Standard Spending Assessments") [appropriate level of spending for each authority] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 22 Tu | Major | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Formula Rating Review") [setting cumulo rateable values for formula rated industries for 1990] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 24 Th | Minor | Community Charge: No.10 minute to Patten PS ("Formula Rating Review") [MT "concerned that we do not have a formula which can consistently be applied to all industries"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 28 Mo | Minor | Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Geoffrey Howe ("MPs and the Community Charge") [Additional Costs Allowance] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Aug 29 Tu | Minor | Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Chris Patten ("Formula Rating Reviews") [valuations based on a methodology consistent with rating valuation principles] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Sep 4 Mo | Major | Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge Safety Net") [meetings to discuss possible changes] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Sep 5 Tu | Minor | Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Exemptions for the Community Charge") [amendments to the exemption for those on whose behalf child benefit is payable] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Sep 6 We | Major | Local Government: Patten minute to MT ("Local authority grant settlement") ["There is a good deal of political pressure developing [over community charge] ... and I have therefore also been considering some possible modifications"] [declassified Dec 2016] |