Includes: correspondence with Bernard Crick regarding developing citizenship education; drafts of the forward of the white paper 'Lifelong Learning'; correspondence with Jack Jones concerning the Labour History Museum; private letter to Tony Blair entitled 'Economic Prospects and Welfare to Work'; correspondence and petitions concerning large cuts to education budgets in Shropshire; personal letter to Gordon Brown concerning the March 1998 budget; Sheffield TEC's response to 'The Learning Age' green paper; correspondence with Cyril Taylor, specialist adviser to the government on specialist schools and Education Action Zones (EAZs); progress reports on the Welfare to Work/New Deal programmes; letter to the Further Education Funding Council regarding the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review for Further Education for 1999-2001; and 'News Update' from the DfEE, December 1998 (2 copies).