Box Blunkett Box 99
Contains 38 Results:
Letter to David Milliband, 2 June 2003
Letter to David Miliband, Minister in the Department for Work and Skills, which refers to a letter from the headteacher of Firth Park Community College regarding changes to funding of schools (the Standard Fund) and how this has caused problems in schools.
Letter to Tony Blair, 27 June 2003
Letter to the Prime Minister setting out challenges facing the Labour Party in the run up to the next general election, and in a third term of government.
Handwritten letter from Gordon Brown to David Blunkett, [2003]
Letter from Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, congratulating Blunkett of a pamphlet he has written. Undated. Includes envlope with braille label.
Presentation to political cabinet by Douglas Alexander, 10 July 2003
Presentation on campaign strategy for the upcoming general election.
Letter to Tony Blair relating to campaign strategy, 9 July 2003
Correspondence and papers relating to Blunkett's role as Home Secretary during 2003.
Letter to Tony Blair concerning campaign strategy for elections in 2004, 9 July 2003
Notes for Blair concerning challenges to campaigning for elections being held in 2004, including the London Majoral election.
Letters regarding a BBC programme relating to asylum seekers, 25 July 2003
Contains letter sent to Grey Dyke, BBC, complaining about a Panorama programme on asylum, which Blunkett claims misrepresents the state of the UK asylum system. Also includes personal letter of the same date to Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, seeking to answer questions rasied by Dacre in an editorial regarding Blunkett's views on the Panorama programmes.
Correspondence with Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary, on the subject of identity cards, 9 September 2003 - 10 September 2003
Letters between Blunkett and Straw disagreeing on the need to introduce an identity card scheme in the UK.
Notes from Cabinet Office meeting regarding identity cards, September 2003
Correspondence and papers relating to Blunkett's role as Home Secretary during 2003.
Memos regarding police grants and terrorism and information technology, 23 October 2003
Contains two internal memos from Blunkett to his staff relating to: a disagreement between Blunkett and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister regarding funding of the police service; and proposals about terrorism and information technology.
Letter from Oliver Letwin , 21 November 2003
Letter thanking Blunkett from his congratulations on Letwin's appointment as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (he had previously been Shadow Home Secretary).
Email from Blunkett relating to regeneration, 17 November 2003
Print out of email sent to Gareth Redmond, one of Blunkett's private secretaries, regarding reductions in regeneration budgets.
Position Statement on identity cards, 6 November 2003
Summary of the goverment's policy on ID cards, and the wording for the Queen's Speech, as agreed at a Cabinet meeting on 6 November 2003.
Text of press release on asylum system reform, 27 November 2003
Announcement of new measures to fight organised crime and abuse of the immigration and asylum system.
Letter to Tony Blair regarding the European Convention, 25 November 2003
Letter from Blunkett regarding Justice and Home Affairs provision in the new European Treaty.
Policy paper on identity cards, November 2003
Document entitled 'Identity Card DA Paper'and parked as 'Restricted- Policy'.
Letter to Charles Clarke regarding university tuition fees, 9 December 2003
Letter to the Secretary of State for Education regarding changes to university 'top-up' fees/differential fees.
Letter to Tony Blair, 20 August 2003
Letter/memo to the Prime Minister setting out areas where Blunkett thinks the government need to make a 'fresh start'.