Scope and Contents Correspondence with constituents and others regarding various matters where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR); the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC); or the Department of Business Innovation & Skills (BIS). Subjects include: chronic knee injuries in ex-miners, 2008; financial support for small businesses, specifically the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFG), 2009; the Fuel Poverty Bill, 2009;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with constituents and others regarding various legal matters where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Lord Chancellor's Department (until June 2003) or the Department of Constitutional Affairs (2003 onwards). Includes responses from the Lord Chancellors in this period, Lord Mackay, Lord Irvine and Lord Falconer, and from government officials. Subjects include: sentencing policy for murderers, 1988; legal aid, 1999; charging orders in relation to previously unsecured...

Scope and Contents 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,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with constituents, local councillors and others where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. Includes responses from Chris Smith, Tessa Jowell, James Purnell, Andy Burnham and Ben Bradshaw as Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Subjects covered include: distribution of lottery funding (correspondence with the Council of Advancement of Arts Recreation and Education, CAARE), 2001; digital radio broadcast licences for...