The Conservative Small Business Bureau was established at Conservative Central Office within the new Community Affairs Department in 1975. In the first issue of Small Business, Spring 1976, the Director of the Community Affairs Department, Andrew Rowe, states: 'The Conservative Small Business Bureau has been established to help you. If you write to it, the Bureau will see that the ideas you put forward are carefully studied and passed on where they can have most effect. Small Business will report to you regularly on the topics raised and the Conservative Party's thinking about them.'