[The Shadow Cabinet Policy Sub-Committee was constituted in July 1975 following Sir Keith Joseph's proposal that the work of the various policy groups then in existence should be coordinated by a small sub-committee of the Shadow Cabinet, chaired by him, and including Sir Geoffrey Howe, Ian Gilmour, Lord Carrington, James Prior, Timothy Raison, Norman Fowler and Angus Maude. James Douglas of the Conservative Research Department was initially involved, and Nigel Forman and Adam Ridley of the Research Department acted as joint secretaries of the sub-committee and provided the Secretariat for the policy groups].