File containing papers relating to Ministry of Defence personnel matters in Plymouth, particularly concerning personnel employed at the Royal Naval dockyard, Devonport, including:

• Copy correspondence of David Owen on various issues effecting Devonport Dockyard employees, including compulsory retirement of supervisors, Apr 1981, apprentice training at the dockyard, Apr-Sep 1981, future work programme for the dockyard, Aug 1981, closure of HM Dockyard, Chatham, May-Jul 1982, future programme for HMS Hermes, Aug-Sep 1983, including letter from Secretary of State for Defence Michael Heseltine , etc; also with news cuttings and copies of statements
• Group of correspondence concerning proposal to replace caterers employed by the Ministry of Defence at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, with contract caterers, Jun-Nov 1983
• Group of correspondence and copy correspondence primarily between David Owen, P. Staddon, Plymouth Branch Secretary of the Society of Civil and Public Servants and Ian Stewart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement, concerning use of and expenditure on computer facilities at Devonport Dockyard and its effect on computer operators, Jan 1983-Feb 1984, with information sheets
• Group of papers concerning the banning of trade unions at GCHQ Cheltenham; including copy of letter from David Owen questioning Margaret Thatcher over the prevention of some civil servants from attending the lobby of Members of Parliament over this issue on behalf of Plymouth civil servants refused leave to attend, 24 Feb 1984, with copy of Margaret Thatcher's reply, 13 Mar 1984; letter from Ken Foster, chairman of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants concerning the issue, with copy of David Owen's reply, Mar-Apr 1984
• Letters to David Owen from Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for the Armed forces Lord Trefgarne and Roger Freeman concerning future of RAF Mount Batten, Plymouth and organisation of the Territorial Army in the South West, Apr-Aug 1984//Jan-Feb 1987