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Margaret Thatcher on child maintenance legislation (1990)

Genre

Speech

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announcing proposals for new legislation on child maintenance. On the establishment of a Child Support Agency to trace absent parents and make them accept their financial...

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Two reports of parliamentary comment (1982)

Two reports of parliamentary comment. First report on 26-01-1982. Second report on 27-01-1982. Wokingham Conservative MP Sir William Van Straubenzee has hit out in the Commons at anti-nuclear protestors...

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Tony Newton on child maintenance legislation (1990)

Genre

Interview

Social Security Secretary Tony Newton setting out proposals for new legislation on child maintenance. The new framework involving an assessment of the fair amount an absent parent might be expected to pay,...

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Peter Adams on hospital maintenance workers’ action (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Peter Adams, electricians’ union negotiator, on the decision to continue work-to-rule and the postponement of hospital maintenance workers’ strike action. Male interviewer not identified.

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Cash for roads and rail network (1989)

Genre

Interview

Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson explains the plans for an extra 4 to 5 hundred million pounds a year given to transport- road maintenance and upgrading railway stock and stations. Interviewer not...

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John Patten on new child maintenance laws (1990)

Genre

Interview

John Patten, Home Office Minister, is interviewed about plans for new laws to ensure that divorced husbands pay maintenance for their families. Male interviewer not identified.

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John Major Mansion House speech (1995)

Genre

News report; Speech

UK Prime Minister John Major, uses the Lord Mayor’s Banquet Mansion House speech to hint at tax cuts, announce private investment in maintenance of roads, and to warn that the EU needs to be aware of...

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GMB deal with Brophy (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the deal between the GMB union and leading ground maintenance contract firm Brophy to protect the pay and conditions of workers whose jobs are contracted out. Jeff Collins reports. With comment...

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Taken for granted (1985)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Richard Robbins presents Taken for Granted. In this episode of the new regular show he focuses on the Royal Albert Hall, and asks, how does it operate, how does it pay its way? and talks about the...

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Ruling on child maintenance (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a female speaker (poss. Judith Hart MP) about a legal case in Scotland where Sheriff Neil Gow ruled 22-year-old Christine Main should receive only one pound a week maintenance for her...

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