Correspondence between Blunkett and Ian McCartney, Shadow Employment Minister. Subjects include: a National Minimum Wage; employment section of the Road to the Manifesto; strategy for launch of Labour's National Minimum Wage Campaign; differences in opinion between McCartney and Stephen Byers; the end of production of the Escort car at Ford's Halewood factory, Merseyside; and funding for adult education. Includes papers of the National Minimum Wage working group (1995) and final report on the implementation of the National Minimum Wage (March 1997).