Catalogue description Department of the Environment and Successors: Local Government Finance Studies (LGFS Series) Files

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Reference: AT 106
Title: Department of the Environment and Successors: Local Government Finance Studies (LGFS Series) Files
Description:

This series contains Local Government Finance Studies (LGFS Series) files.
Date: 1977-2000
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LGFS Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Local Government Finance Studies Division, 1985-1987

Department of the Environment, Rates Legislation Division, 1983-1985
Physical description: 119 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2013 Department for Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Department of the Environment 1977 to 1997; Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997 to 2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001 to 2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002 to 2006; Department for Communities and Local Government 2006 on.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The division was formed in 1983 as the Rates Legislation Division and was re-named the Local Government Finance Studies Division in 1985. It ceased to exist in 1987 and its functions were re-absorbed into the relevant other divisions within the Local Government Finance Policy Directorate.

The task of the division was to take forward policy options from the 1981 Green Paper Alternatives to Domestic Rates. The policy was then presented in the 1986 green paper Paying for Local Government. Legislation was passed in 1988 and the Community Charge ('Poll Tax') became operational in 1989.

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