Papers mainly relating to recommendations made in the White Paper 'The Conduct of Local Authority Business: the government response to the Report of the Widdicombe Committee of Inquiry' in the run up to the publication of the Local Government and Housing Bill in February 1989. Includes: copy of the white paper 'The Conduct of Local Authority Business', July 1988; Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) briefings for the Queen's Speech debate on legislation due to be announced by the government in response to the report of the Widdicombe Committee, November 1988; written answers to parliamentary questions tabled by Blunkett and others relating to new economic development power for local authorities proposed in the above White Paper, December 1988; two briefing papers from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) relating to proposed economic development power for local authorities, January 1989; press releases from the LGIU and the Department of the Environment on the publication of the Local Government and Housing Bill, February 1989; and research notes produced by the House of Commons Library Research Division concerning individual parts of the Bill, February 1989.