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General Correspondence, including some with constituents, with occasional draft responses from the Conservative Research Department, Nov 1976-May 1978, n.d.

 File
CPP/KJ 8/4

Correspondents include:
  1. Amos, P
  2. Awdry, Daniel, MP for Chippenham
  3. Barnes, KB, Regional Secretary, East Midlands Region, Confederation of British Industry
  4. Bell, Miss Margaret
  5. Bennett, Reginald, MP for Fareham
  6. Benson, RA
  7. Bevebridge, Miss AE
  8. Blackburn, DG
  9. Bowen-Gotham, A, City of Manchester Conservative Association
  10. Bowey, RC, Managing Director, Martin-Thomas Limited, Andover
  11. Brady, Helen
  12. Browning, CH, Chairman, Southend & District National Federation of Self-Employed Limited
  13. Calder, Dr JA
  14. Campbell, Group Captain AP
  15. Carr, Colin
  16. Chapman, BP, Commercial Manager, Air Anglia Ltd, Norwich
  17. Crouch, James
  18. Crutwell, HJ
  19. Cutler, Basil
  20. Davis, Avril
  21. Dennis, T Morley
  22. Donnelly, Mrs B
  23. Dumas, Charles [formerly of the Conservative Research Department, 1968-1971]
  24. English, Jeffrey, Willis Parsons English & Co., Chartered Accountants
  25. Evans, Donald
  26. Ferguson, Andrew JD
  27. Gardiner, George, Editor, Conservative Monthly News
  28. Gough, Col. CFH
  29. Hobday, DH
  30. Hodgson, Mrs E
  31. Hyman, Michael R
  32. Izzard, Mrs I
  33. Jeans, Councillor Charles, Chairman, Cleethorpes Young Conservatives
  34. Lindsay, David G
  35. Lyles, J, Chairman, S. Lyles, Sons & Co. Ltd, Dewsbury
  36. McChlean, Mr GMM
  37. Miller, Mrs M
  38. Moore, Mrs Patricia
  39. Moreland, Robert
  40. Morgan-Giles, Rear Morgan Admiral, MP for Winchester
  41. Murphy, Christopher, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Welwyn & Hatfield Conservative Association
  42. Myers, Miss M
  43. Nadin, Maurice
  44. Newton, AG
  45. Old, Harry
  46. Parker, Mrs
  47. Passmore, MA ['Biddy'], Conservative Research Department
  48. Pavlin, Charles
  49. Peters, NA, Managing Director, Linolite Limited, Malmesbury
  50. Portillo, Michael, Conservative Research Department
  51. Pratt, GA, Clerk to Accrington Borough and Rossendale Justices
  52. Rayner, RJ, Harrison Cowley Advertising
  53. Riddall, John G
  54. Roberts, MC, Deloitte & Co
  55. Rowlinson, Peter, Chairman, Rowlinson Construction Ltd, Poynton, Cheshire
  56. Savage, Geoff
  57. Scott-Hopkins, James, Chairman, European Democratic Group
  58. Showman, Hymie
  59. Smith, Mrs PM
  60. Somerville, Air Commodore DM
  61. Spring, William
  62. Stewart, Donald
  63. Thompson, Mrs M
  64. Thorneycroft, Dr WT, Corporate Planning Manager, English Clay Lovering Pochin & Co., Ltd
  65. Wallace, KG, Managing Director, Task Power and Control Ltd
  66. Wheatley, JA, The Elite Hosiery Ltd, Hinkley
  67. White, D
  68. Willis, A
  69. Wood, WJ, Chairman, National Employers' Association

Subjects include:
  1. Seal culling in Canada
  2. Welfare of live animals in transit during export from the UK
  3. Inclusion of restrictive clauses in Government contracts with private firms designed to enforce compliance with the Government's pay policy
  4. Married persons pensions for widows and widowers
  5. Bank nationalisation
  6. Capital Transfer Tax
  7. Fluoridation of the water supply
  8. 50-mile fishing limit
  9. Aviation Security Fund
  10. Capital Gains Tax
  11. Request to open the new offices of Rowlinson Construction Ltd in Poynton, Cheshire
  12. Payment of rates on empty commercial properties
  13. Reorganisation of the Water Industry and the British Waterways Board
  14. Proposed increases in VAT
  15. Security of tenure
  16. Complaint at letter published in September 1977 issue of Conservative Monthly News under the headline, 'Remember – a million homosexuals vote Tory'
  17. Proposed revisions to the Employment Protection Act
  18. Choice of secondary school place
  19. Sovereignty negotiations with Argentina over the Falkland Island
  20. BBC Overseas Broadcasts
  21. Audit requirements on small businesses
  22. Pensions: Self-employed and public service
  23. Working wives' tax allowance
  24. Membership of the Common Market
  25. Trade Unions and the Closed Shop
  26. Child Benefit
  27. Increase in crime
  28. Proposed extension of the nuclear reprocessing facilities at Windscale
  29. Aircraft and Shipbuilding Bill
  30. Direct Taxation
  31. Application for post as Northern Ireland Desk Officer, Conservative Research Department
  32. Financial plight of Lady Clementine Churchill, widow of Sir Winston
  33. Cuts in Scottish higher education funding
  34. Control of the Money Supply and reduction of public expenditure
  35. The Declaration of Human Rights and the right of parents to choose schools for their children
  36. Support for private schools
  37. Terrorism, and in particularly the release of Abu Daoud, member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and Black September, by the French Government
  38. Compulsory Purchase
  39. Taxation Policy Group
  40. Devolution
  41. The Aerospace Industry
  42. Recycling

Includes:
  1. RSPCA leaflet 'Stop the export of live food animals. Does your MP know the facts?' n.d. [c1975-1978]
  2. CBI leaflet no. 32, 'CBI talking points. A Contract for Chaos? CBI seeks justice for Government contractors', Feb 1978
  3. Petition pressing for the ban on live exports from the UK, Leeds North East constituency, n.d. [Dec 1977]
  4. Annual report and accounts of Rowlinson Constructions Group, 1977
  5. 10 anti- Labour Party cartoons offered for use by the Party by cartoonist Dr JR Calder, Mar 1977
  6. Conservative Central Office press release containing transcript of speech by Sir Geoffrey Howe to a meeting of the Conservative Backbench Finance Committee, 25/01/1977

Dates

  • Creation: Nov 1976-May 1978, n.d.

Extent

1 file

Language of Materials

  • English

Conditions Governing Access

Closed.

Shelfmark

CPP/KJ 8/4

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