Correspondence with constituents and others regarding matters relating to housing, local government and community issues where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (until May 2006) or the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) (2006 onwards). Includes responses from John Prescott, Hazel Blears, John Denham, Caroline Flint, John Healey and Margaret Beckett. Subjects covered include: right to buy, 2003; high hedges legislation, 2003-2004; planning control over telecommunications development, 2004; Local Government Settlement and formula grant distribution, 2005; Local Government Pension Scheme, 2007; population projections and the local government finance settlement in relation to Sheffield City Council, 2007-2008; Barker review of land use planning, 2007; funding for social housing stock in Sheffield, 2009; and cuts to social service spending on adults with learning disabilities, 2011. See also 467/1/1/13 for correspondence on similar issues with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (1997-2001) and Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) (2001-2002).