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1990 Mar 1 - 1991 Apr 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3429
Local Government (Relations between central and local government: local authority expenditure; Local Government Review; structure of local government) (Part 38)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 423
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90 Jul 23 Mo Minor Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("AEF Settlement for 1991-92") [proposals for Scotland] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 23 Mo Major Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Welsh Local Authority Settlement") [dispute between Hunt and Lamont] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 24 Tu Minor Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Lamont PS ("Local Authority Finance: Scotland") [draft Rifkind announcement] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 24 Tu Minor Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("New Burdens on Local Government") [impact of central government initiatives] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 25 We Minor Community Charge: Lamont PS minute to Rifkind PS ("Local Authority Finance: Scotland") [amendments to draft Rifkind announcement] [released July 2017]
90 Jul 25 We Minor Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: Scotland") [final version of Rifkind's AEF statement] [released July 2017]
90 Aug 2 Th Minor Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to Chris Patten (New Burdens on Local Government) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017]
90 Aug 2 Th Major Community Charge: Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Restructuring Local Government and Abolition of County Councils") [abolition would be harder than abolishing the GLC] [released July 2017]
90 Aug 8 We Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Financial Assets") [proposed legislation to require authorities to redeem debt] [released July 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tu Major Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("New Burdens on Local Government") [additional demands on local government should be kept to a minimum] [released July 2017]
90 Aug 30 Th Minor Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Michael Howard (New Burdens on Local Government) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 5 We Major Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [suggestions for keeping pressures of policy on local authority spending in check] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Minor Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to Michael Portillo (New Burdens on Local Government) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo Minor Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report 1989/90") [concerns about local authorities who lost out in the way debt has been handled] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 18 Tu Major Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [need to distinguish between burdens arising from new activities and those from transfer of responsibilities to local government] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 21 Fr Major Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Shares Spending Distribution Between Service Shares") [officials' suggestions] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 24 Mo Minor Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to John Major ("Local Authority Pay") [central government involvement in pay negotiations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 24 Mo Major Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [costing the effect of policies affecting local authorities' spending] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 24 Mo Minor Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Michael Howard (HSC work) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 27 Th Major Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Standard Spending Distribution Between Services") [share for education services] [released July 2017]