File of material relating to Devonport Dockyard, including:

• Inner file: containing correspondence concerning problems encountered by Devonport Dockyard employees with redundancy payments, pensions and other aspects of their employment at the Dockyard; including correspondence between David Owen and Plymouth constituents, primarily Dockyard employees, concerning individual problems; some with Advice Bureau forms completed by David Owen; correspondence between David Owen and officials of Devonport Management Limited and of the Ministry of Defence entered into by David Owen on behalf of constituents querying personnel policy; Oct 1987-Nov 1988
• Inner file labelled: `Correspondence re Dockyards 1984-88. Re job losses + Pay + conditions' including correspondence between David Owen and Plymouth constituents, primarily Dockyard employees, concerning individual problems with redundancy payments, pensions and other aspects of their employment at the Dockyard, and discussing concerns over the future of the Dockyard, particularly the Government's proposals to introduce commercial agency management; correspondence between David Owen and Ministry of Defence officials entered into by David Owen on behalf of constituents querying personnel policy etc Jan 1984-Sep 1989
• Inner file labelled : `Hansards' containing extracts from Hansard of discussions relevant to Devonport Dockyard, including discussions on the future of the Royal Dockyards and the Dockyard Services Bill , speeches by David Owen on the future of Devonport Dockyard, etc Apr 1985-Oct 1989
• Inner file labelled : `Press cuttings' containing news cuttings and copied cuttings relating to Devonport Dockyard, particularly the introduction of commercial agency management and the succession of job losses in the Dockyard, Oct 1986-Nov 1989.