JH/POL/EUR/44/1 - [European elections - United Kingdom papers on direct elections]

JH/POL/EUR/44/1

Sub file

[European elections - United Kingdom papers on direct elections]

1971-1979

57 items Mixed

Stewart, Michael, 1906-
Beamish, Tufton,
Jellicoe, George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe,
Elles, Diana,

Conservative Party -- Research Department
Committee to Enquire into the Question of Direct Elections to the European Parliament
South Norfolk Conservative Association
Bow Group
Federal Trust for Education and Research
United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Direct Elections to the European Assembly

Contains copies of Sir Tufton Beamish's and Michael Stewart's suggested systems for electing British MEPs; a Conservative Research Department paper on direct elections; questions and answers published by the European Elections Information Programme; correspondence concerning JH's membership of Earl Jellicoe's committee to consider direct elections, and committee minutes, papers and drafts of the committee's report with detailed comments by JH; a detailed paper on the subject by Baroness Elles; a paper expressing the views of the South Norfolk Conservtive Association; publications by the European Movement, the Bow Group, and the Federal Trust on the matter; press-cuttings on proposals for direct elections; the first and second reports of the House of Commons select committee on direct elections; and copies of Hansard containing the debates on the issue.