Scope and Contents Correspondence with constituents, local businesses and others where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Subjects include: MOD choice of attack helicopters, 1995; Cassini Space Probe and its use of plutonium dioxide as a power source, 1997; and the campaign to establish a medal for those who served on the Arctic Convoys during the Second World War (the Arctic Star), 2004. Also includes briefing note for the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) concerning defence...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with constituents and others where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Department of Education and Science. This file relates to the period before Blunkett was appointed Shadow Education Secretary in November 1994. See separate series for his correspondence as Shadow Education Secretary, 1994-1997 (467/4), and Secretary of State for Education and Employment, 1997-2001 (467/5). For education correspondence from 2002 onwards see 467/1/1/6a. Subjects include: Sheffield...