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Title

Cecil Parkinson with MPs - B

Shelfmark

CCO 20/5/58

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Baker, Kenneth, Minister of State for Industry and Information Technology

Baker, Nicholas, MP for Dorset North

Banks, Robert, MP for Harrogate

Bell, Sir Ronald, MP for Beaconsfield

Bendall, Vivian WH, MP for Ilford North

Bennett, Sir Frederic, MP for Torbay

Benyon, Tom, MP for Abingdon

Berry, Anthony, MP for Southgate and Deputy Chief Whip

Bevan, David Gilroy, MP for Birmingham Yardley

Blaker, Peter, MP for Blackpool South

Bonsor, Sir Nicholas, MP for Nantwich

Bottomley, Peter, MP for Woolwich West

Braine, Sir Bernard, MP for South East Essex

Bright, Graham, MP for Luton East

Brinton, Tim, MP for Gravesend

Brittan, Leon, MP for Cleveland and Whitby

Brotherton, Michael, MP for Louth

Brown, Michael, MP for Brigg and Scunthorpe

Browne, John, MP for Winchester

Bruce-Gardyne, Jock, MP for Knutsford

Buck, Antony, MP for Colchester

Budgens, Nicholas, MP for Wolverhampton South West

Bulmer, Esmond, MP for Kidderminster

Burden, Sir Frederick, MP for Gillingham

Cobb, Mrs Joan, Chairman, West Woolwich Conservative Association

Eyres, Stephen, Director, FOREST [Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco]

Garner, AS, Director of Organisation & Community Affairs

Graham, Ted, Labour MP for Edmonton

Howard-Smith, D, 'Our Country, Our Credit' Group

Jellicoe, Earl, George, Chairman, Tate & Lyle

Kellett-Bowman, Elaine, MP for Lancaster

Lennox-Boyd, Mark, MP for Morcambe and Lonsdale

McCluskey, Brian, Association for the Rights of Britons Abroad

Mitchell, John, 'Our Country, Our Credit' Group

O'Neill, WH (formerly, 1970-1975) Deputy Director, Christian Aid

Ridley, MK, Duchy of Lancaster Office

Skinner, Clive, Secretary, Conservative Anti Hunt Council (for the Prevention of Hunting with Hounds)

Spicer, Michael, Conservative Party Vice-Chairman

Stotter, Shirley, Deputy Central Office Agent, East Midlands Area

Subjects include:-

The Government's record on new technologies

The Telecommunications Bill and public call boxes

Amendment to the Protection of Animals Act 1911

Membership fees of Conservative associations

Animal Welfare and the 1983 manifesto

Criticism of grant made by Christian Aid to the Alinsky Community Training Project in Toxteth

Complaint about East Midlands Area Office

Boundary changes affecting MPs' jurisdictions in the Enfield area

Finance policy and naval cuts

Inclusion of Yardley in the list of critical marginal Conservative seats for the 1983 general election campaign

Scheme for voluntary pay cuts in return for 'Post-Depression Credits'

Enfranchisement of British citizens living in European Community Member States

Use of graphical representations to show comparative international rates of inflation and unemployment, 1979-1982

Failure of Winchester Constituency Chairman to be accepted onto the Candidates' List

Cecil Parkinson's attendance at the Scunthorpe Conservative Association's annual dinner and dance

Recommendation for appointment to the post of Land Agent for the Duchy of Lancaster

Peckham and Bermondsey by-elections

Claim of unfair dismissal by a local Conservative councillor/constituent of Graham Bright MP

Complaint about satirical programme Something Else, broadcast on BBC 2 on 24/09/1982

Sales of local council properties to fund capital projects

Photography student's request for permission to photograph shipbuilding construction techniques at Ministry of Defence sites

Rising crime rate and growth of vandalism

Request for assistance with funding an Agent for Wolverhampton South West

Constituents' request for Tom Benyon to be de-selected as MP for Abingdon

The poor state of the US economy

The peace settlement with Argentina following the Falklands Conflict

The ban on FOREST and other pressure groups from hiring exhibition stands at the 1982 Conservative Party Conference

Condition of Old Age Pensioners

Closure of Devonport Dockyard

The aims of Thatcherism

Bias of BBC reporting during the Falklands Conflict

Publication, The Democratic Right, Leatherhead

Threat to resign the Whip by Tim Brinton MP if the Government's aims during the Falklands Conflict are watered down

Potential donation of £10,000 to the Conservative Party from Peter Pritchard of Pritchard Cleaning Services

Critical seats: pairing of seats, and the possibility of marginal seats being 'adopted' by safe seats

Construction of fifth terminal at Heathrow Airport

£5,000 donation to the Conservative Party from Tate & Lyle, and its support for Conservative Action for Electoral Reform [CAER] and electoral reform

Party Political Broadcast featuring the Young Conservatives

Congratulations on appointment

Conservative Party support for parish councils

Includes:-

Paper, 'Technology: The Government's Record', ND [c.Apr 1983], Kenneth Baker, Minister of State for Industry and Information Technology

Briefing Note, 'The Telecomms Bill and the Rural Lobby', Kenneth Baker, Mar 1983

Transcript of speech by Kenneth Baker to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool University, entitled 'Toward and Information Economy: The social and political consequences of the Information Revolution', 07/09/1982

Transcript of speech by Jock Bruce-Gardyne, Economic Secretary to the Treasury to Knutsford CPC, 29/01/1982