Box Blunkett Box 74
Contains 7 Results:
Correspondence with Stephen Byers, MP, a member of the shadow education and employment team, 4 November 1994-22 March 1997
Letters and papers sent to Stephen Byers, Shadow Minister for Training and Employment. Contains letters sent to Byers by Blunkett, but not Byers' responses. Subjects include: employment protection; drafting of the policy paper 'The Skills Revolution', 1996; welfare to work policy; drafting of the employment section of the Road to the Manifesto; and drafting a policy document on the development of the Careers Service.
Correspondence with Bryan Davies, MP, a member of the shadow education and employment team, 28 October 1994-14 March 1997
Correspondence with Peter Kilfoyle, MP, a member of the shadow education and employment team, 28 October 1994-7 March 1997
Correspondence between Blunkett and Peter Kilfoyle, Shadow Schools Minister, with special responsibility for the development of youth policy. Subjects include: Labour's Youth Policy Task Group which Kilfoyle chaired; Kilfoyle's work schedule; announcement by Gordon Brown of a National Environmental Task Force; grant maintained schools; future role of LEAs; and the legislative priorities for the Education Team should Labour be elected.
Correspondence with Ian McCartney, MP, a member of the shadow education and employment team, 17 November 1995-14 March 1997
Correspondence with Michael Meacher, MP, a member of the shadow education and employment team, 26 October 1995-17 July 1996
Correspondence between Blunkett and Michael Meacher, Shadow Employment Minister. Subjects include: working relationship and areas of responsibility following merger of Department of Education and Department of Employment; the National Minimum Wage; drafting of a statement on Labour's position on 'Workfare'. Also includes a letter from Michael Meacher to Tony Blair concerning an article in the News of the World regarding the National Minimum Wage.
Correspondence with Estelle Morris, MP, a member of the shadow education and employment team, 3 November 1994-12 March 1997
Correspondence between Blunkett and Estelle Morris, Shadow Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Schools and Early Years). Subjects include: school standards; funding for a researcher to assist Morris is her work for the Education and Employment team; educational underachievement of boys; and initiatives to put into action if Labour is elected to government.
Correspondence with Labour Whips, 24 October 1994-11 November 1996
Contains correspondence with Labour Whips Derek Foster and Donald Dewar on a variety of issues linked to Blunkett's Education & Employment brief, including appointment of Whips to the Education team and slots for parliamentary questions relating to education and employment.