Correspondence with constituents and others in Sheffield where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Home Office. See separate series for his constituency office correspondence files during the period he was Home Secretary, 2001-2004 (467/6 - curently closed access). Includes individual asylum/immigration cases relating to Blunkett's constituents where he has taken up cases directly with the Home Office. Other subjects include: delays in passport applications due to strike action in the Passport Office, 1989; provision for religious broadcasting under the Broadcasting Bill, 1990; police housing allowance and impact on South Yorkshire Police Authority, 1990; withdrawal of Immigration Officers for the University of Sheffield, 1994; regulation of 'Puppy Farms', 1999; delays in processing international students leave to remain visa extensions, 1999; bid from the Sheffield Domestic Violence Forum for funding, 2000; accommodation and criminal activity by asylum seekers/refugees in Sheffield, 2000; South Yorkshire Police partnership taking forward recommendations following death of Stephen Lawrenson, 2000; Parson Cross Community Development Forum, 2001; the death of 12 Chinese nationals at Morecambe Bay, 2005; funding for the Arab Training and Information Centre (ATIC), Sheffield, 2005; the reintroduction of voucher support for certain asylum seekers, 2006-2007; charges for immigration applications, 2007; problems of constituency surgeries being dominated by asylum and immigration cases, 2008; the policing green paper, 2008; funding for Agency for Culture and Change Management (ACCM), 2005-2008; membership of Hillsborough Independent Panel, 2010; the impact of Slovak Roma migration to Sheffield on local schools, 2010; and GS4 housing contract for asylum seekers, 2012.

Also includes letters from the Home Office to all MPs concerning: MPs' representations in immigration cases, 1988-1990; and detention and possible deportation of Iraqis and other nationalities, 1991. Includes responses from David Waddington, Kenneth Baker, Jack Straw, Charles Clarke, John Reid, Jacqui Smith, Alan Johnson and Theresa May as Home Secretaries.