Personal file of David Owen containing correspondence and memoranda relating to Parliamentary affairs, including:

• correspondence with the House of Commons Speaker, George Thomas concerning allocation of opposition time to minority parties in the Commons, the calling of SDP MPs, including David Owen, for debates etc; including letters urging Speaker to call Owen and David Steel's amendment on the Trident programme with draft and annotated copies of the amendment, Mar 1982; letters expressing dissatisfaction at lack of calls for David Owen to speak during Prime Minister's Questions, Nov 1989 etc
• memoranda and tables prepared for David Owen by Parliamentary Secretary Susan Child reporting on SDP and David Owen's voting records in specified periods of Parliamentary sessions, and listing occasions on which David Owen spoke.
• correspondence concerning various practical arrangements, including staff identity passes; ministers' salaries; introduction of satellite television to House of Commons; introduction of information technology for members; televising the proceedings of the House; letter from Margaret Thatcher explaining arrangements for speech of President Ronald Reagan's speech in Westminster Hall, Mar 1982 etc
• correspondence concerning SDP claims for financial assistance for opposition parties, Jun-Jul 1990

Originally part of reference filing system