Conservative Party Archive: Keith Joseph Papers

Memorandum by Capt. Jeremy Elewes on future policy for eduction, the arts, crafts, heritage, design and leisure. Sent to Keith Joseph 1975. Letter from Keith Joseph to Norman St. John - Stevas on NFFC's future, 1976

Suggestion by Keith Joseph for Bow Group to undertake studies on Overseas Aid and the Post Office Monopoly

Additional comments on ORC survey report by James Douglas, CRD, and a brief on social services in West Woolwich

Includes:-

• Conservative Research Department brief, EAC(76)3: First report from the Select Committee on Direct Elections to the European Assembly, 06/07/1976 [Author: RPT/CFR]
• Report, ‘Guidelines adopted by the Commission for Steel Policy’, ND [1977]
• Report, ‘The Situation of the Community Steel Industry’, ND [1977]
• European Commission report [ref. COM(77) 145], ‘Consultation of the Council on the introduction of minimum prices for concrete reinforcing bars within the Common Market pursuant to Article 61(b) of the ESCS Treaty’, 13/04/1977
• European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs report on the crisis in the European Community iron and steel industry, 04/05/1977

Includes:-

• Gilt-Edged Research, 19/05/1975
• The UK Economic Outlook, 28/05/1975
• Corporate Liquidity, 28/05/1975
• Inflation Accounting, 28/05/1975
• Economic Forecasts - the background for business and investment, Jun 1975

Subjects includes:-

• West German Industrial Relations
• the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth
• Wage rates and Earnings
• Retail prices and the balance of payments
• Pay settlements
• the increase in VAT on boats and accessories
• the increase in VAT on television rentals
• PAYE

Correspondents include:-

• Ball, Prof. RJ
• Duncan, Mr AV
• Howell, David, MP
• Mckenzie, Heather, National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants
• Nott, John, MP
• Ridley, Adam
• Thatcher, Margaret, MP
• Tugendhat, Christopher, MP

Subjects include:-

• The taxation and investment income of retired people and the terms of the Finance Bill
• rates of domestic unemployment
• inflation
• Index-linked salaries and pensions
• Monetary policy
• Single women with elderly dependants
• Tax Credit Scheme
• Dividends control
• the Wilson Committee on the Funding of Financial Institutions

Includes:-

• Notes of a meeting of the Wider Share Ownership Council attended by Sir Keith Joseph and David Howell at the Centre for Policy Studies, 29/09/1975

[The Group was chaired by Sir Geoffrey Howe and its main focus was on public expenditure; the absorption of private industry into the public sector; the tax system; price, profit and dividend control; and inflation. It met for the first time on 20/06/1975]

Includes:-

• Notes of an all-day meeting on economic policy held on 18/05/1975

Includes:-

• Final Report of the Nationalised Industries Policy Group chaired by Nicholas Ridley, dated 08/07/1977
• Copy of paper presented by David Howell MP at a seminar held by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of California: Programme Budgeting and its Implications for Public Accountability and Government Structure in the United Kingdom, 17/10/1969

Includes:-

• Notes of an all-day discussion on Economic Policy between Geoffrey Howe, David Howell, John Nott, Adam Ridley, Michael Niblock and Anne Bulloch, 18/05/1975
• Minutes of a meeting on Economic Policy held in the Leader of the Opposition’s Office at the House of Commons on 08/07/1975

[The terms of reference of the Public Sector Policy Group were, ‘To consider policies for the control and financing of the public sector. Topics to be taken account of include: Machinery of Government, programme control; Nationalised industries’ finance; Scope and control of main spending agencies and services of central government; Scope and control of local authority spending.’ It met from June 1975 and was chaired by John Nott]

Includes:-

• The First Report of the Public Sector Manpower Group, dated 25/07/1975
• The Second Interim Report of the Public Sector Policy Group, 13/07/1977

[This Group was set up by Norman Fowler, Shadow Social Services Minister on 19th May 1975 under the chairmanship of Paul Dean, MP]

Includes draft report, Sep 1975 and interim report of the Conservatives' Self-Employed Policy Group, 01/10/1975

Includes:-

• Pamphlet, 1974. The beginning of the end of socialism and democracy, DD Wedgewood, [ND]
• Minutes of the Special Session of the Confederation of British Industry held on 17/03/1975
• Leaflet, CBI Talking Points, Apr 1975

[Chaim Herzog was a commentator for Kol Israel Radio News during the Six Day War, and subsequently Military Governor of East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. He was Israeli Ambassador to the UN between 1975-1978]

Note: File missing

Correspondents include:-

• Bell, Ronald, MP for Beaconsfield (1974-1982)
• Dobbs, Michael, Conservative Research Department
• Gilmour, Ian, Shadow Home Secretary (1975-1976)
• Joseph, Sir Keith, Shadow Minister with responsibility for policy formulation and research (1975-1979)
• Paine, G, Director and Registrar General, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
• Patten, Chris, Director, Conservative Research Department (1974-1979)

Includes:-

• Transcript of speech by Ian Gilmour, Opposition Spokesman for Home Affairs, at Amersham, 24/06/1975
• Race Relations and Immigration Policy Group interim report, 24/07/1975
• Newsletter of the Immigration Standing Committee, July/Aug 1975
• Transcript of speech by Ian Gilmour, Opposition Spokesman for Home Affairs, to the Bristol North-East Women’s Luncheon Club, 17/09/1975
• Conservative Research Department brief, ‘Repatriation of Immigrants’, 16/12/1975 [Author: MD/CFR]
• Conservative Research Department brief, ‘Immigration into Britain: some options for restriction’, 16/12/1975 [Author: MD/CFR]
• Transcript, presumably of a speech, entitled ‘The Great Betrayal’, Ronald M Bell, MP, ND [1976]
• Transcript of speech by Ronald M Bell, MP to the Hampstead Young Conservatives, 20/07/1976

Includes:-

• ‘Nationalisation of Aerospace – A summary of policy recommendations for the Industry’, compiled by the Joint Unions’ Committee, Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, Jan 1975
• ‘H.S.A Workload Situation’, Mar 1975
• ‘Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill – Views of BAC’, Sep 1975
• ‘Is there a future for the British Aerospace Industry?’ by Geoffrey Pattie MP, Oct 1975
• Transcript of speech given to the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, presumably by Sir Keith Joseph, 03/10/1975

Includes:-

• Minutes of a meeting between Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym and a delegation from the National Farmers’ Union concerning devolution and the Farmers’ Union of Wales, 12/06/1976
• Notes of a meeting between delegates from the Wales Region Self-Employed Action Group and Keith Joseph, 12/06/1976

Correspondents include:-

• Prior, James, MP
• Laing, Hector, United Biscuits
• Elliott, Christian, Chairman, Birmingham University Conservative Association

Includes:-

• Training Service Agency pamphlets:-

  Note: [The Training Service Agency was formed as an executive arm of the Manpower Services Commission, which was set up by Heath in 1973]

  • [TSA L4] ‘Your chance to learn a new skill with the Training Opportunities Scheme’, 1974
  • [TSA L5] ‘Start a new career in office work with the Training Opportunities Scheme’, 1974
  • [TSA L6] ‘Make a fresh start with the Training Opportunities Scheme’, June 1974
  • [TSA L7] ‘Short industrial courses under the Training Opportunities Scheme’, 1974
  • [TSA L8] Train for a new career in management’, Dec 1974
  • [TSA L9] ‘Weekly tax-free payments for TOPS trainees’, Aug 1975
  • [TSA L10] ‘Training Services’ 1974
  • [TSA L20] ‘Five good reasons why the Training Opportunities Scheme is TOPS’, 1975
• Transcript of paper given by Sir Anthony Bowlby at the Employee Relations Conference, 23-25 April 1975
• Transcript of lecture given at Durham by Sir John Donaldson, ND

Subjects include:-

• Opinion polls and trade unions
• Collective bargaining
• Industrial relations at Tarmac Construction Limited of Wolverhampton
• Employee participation
• The ‘Closed Shop’
• Unemployment and redundancy benefit
• The work of the Manpower Sub-committee
• Industrial policy
• Employment Protection Bill

Correspondents include:-

• Hutt, Prof. W.H. (Bill), University of Dallas, Texas
• Coombs, Monica
• Dean, Paul MP, Parliamentary Liaison Committee of the Engineering Employers’ Association
• Gilbert, Robert
• Miller, Robert
• Parkin, Michael, University of Western Ontario
• Pointon, Dr AJ, Assistant National Secretary, Association of Polytechnic Teachers
• Reynolds, Burt, Secretary, Action ’75
• Scoper, N.A., Services Director, Tarmac Construction Limited
• Trenchard, Viscount, Unilever Ltd
• Ward, Baroness

Includes:-

• Review of W.H. Hutt’s The Theory of Collective Bargaining (1975) by Sir Leonard Neal, ND [Aug1975]
• Report, ‘The Development of Trade Union Militancy on Tarmac’s Brixton Site (Fitzpatrick)’, 26/08/1975 [Author: NAS/DLR]
• Copy of Waterfront & Industrial Pioneer, Sep 1975
• Conservative Research Department paper, ‘Increased Numbers and Costs of Public Sector Employment’, 14/11/1975 [Author: DJN/JMR]
• Conservative Trades Union Department ‘Report of the Chief Registrar on Trades Unions for the Year 1975/75’, ND [cFeb 1976]
• Report ref. PG17/76/4, ‘The Closed Shop and Individual Freedom’, 24/06/1976 [Author: RHG/LSA]
• ‘Memorandum on Unemployment and The Arts and Craftwork’, Capt. Jeremy Elwes, 10/08/1976

Subjects include:-

• The Government’s response to difficulties faced by Chrysler (UK) Ltd and British Leyland
• Nationalisation of the ship repairing facilities in South Wales
• Nationalisation of the Aircraft Industry
• The European Community’s Leather Production Industry

Includes:-

• Minutes of a meeting of the Conservative Parliamentary Industry Committee with Sir Ronald Macintosh, Chairman of NEDO, 10/06/1975
• Pamphlet, The City and industry – an Investors Chronicle Inquiry, 1975
• Report on the European Community Leather Production, ND
• Outline Conservative Research Department proposal for the creation of the Nationalised Industries Costs and Efficiency Board (NICE), 08/12/1975
• Report by Norman Tebbit MP, ‘Industry and Labour Supply’, on behalf of the Industrial Policy Group, 03/03/1976

[The Shadow Cabinet Policy Sub-Committee was constituted in July 1975 following Sir Keith Joseph's proposal that the work of the various policy groups then in existence should be coordinated by a small sub-committee of the Shadow Cabinet, chaired by him, and including Sir Geoffrey Howe, Ian Gilmour, Lord Carrington, James Prior, Timothy Raison, Norman Fowler and Angus Maude. James Douglas of the Conservative Research Department was initially involved, and Nigel Forman and Adam Ridley of the Research Department acted as joint secretaries of the sub-committee and provided the Secretariat for the policy groups]