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Report on the Welsh Language Index Abse, Leo, 193 Coalitionism, 157 Annan, Lord, Olairman of the Commit- Committee on Scottish Affairs, 56 tee on Broadcasting 1974, 76 Commonwealth Office, 60 Army, British, 120 Congested Districts Board for the High­ Arson, 1979-80 campaign in Wales, 89 lands 1897, 150 Assembly, 4 Conservatism and Unionism, 139-70 Scottish, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192 political ideas and practice, 143-4 Welsh, 96, 187, 191, 192, 194 territorial politics, 143 Conservative Irish policy, 153 Balfour, A. J., 153, 155, 157 Conservative Party, 139-70 passim 'Barnett formula', 21, 24 in Scotland and Wales, 14-16 Bi-lingualism in Wales, 69. 70, 75, 78, and voting, 227-47 88 in Wales, 73 bi-lingual education, 83, 87 and Welsh language, 93-4 schools, 81, 82 Constitution, Royal Commission on 'BloodySunday',30January 1972,114 (Crowther, Kilbrandon), 3-4, 13, Board of Trade, 36, 37, 45, 50 16, 94, 188-9, 191 Boer War, 148, 154, 156 Constitutional Convention (NI) 1975, Bonar Law, 157 117' 126 Border Poll Act 1973, 122 CoS IRA, 42, 53 Boundaries between Northern Ireland Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, and Irish Republic, 123 report on The Welsh Language Bowen Committee 1973, 71, 94 Today 1963, 72 British Leyland, 19, 42, 48, 51, 53 Council for the Welsh Language, 72, 92, 94,95 Cabinet and ministries, 60 Council of Ireland, 116, ll7, 124 Callaghan, James, 17, Ill, ll2, 113, Crossman, Richard, 17, 18, 191 127 Diary 1976, 14 Campaign for Democracy in Ulster, Ill Crown, the, 1-3, 100, 101, 102, 104, Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., 155 119 Carmarthen by-election 1966, 183 Crowther-Hunt, Lord, 191 Central Policy Review Staff Report, 27 Olamberlain, Neville, 148, 159, 161 Dalyell, Tam, 194. Chrysler UK, 19, 46, 47, 61 Decentralisation in Northern Ireland, 54 Olurchill, Randolph, 148 De Lorean car company, 55, 58 Civil Rights Campaign 1968, 110, Ill Department of Education and Science, Civil Service, 12, 21, 31, 169 79 Commission, 12 Department of Employment, 37 Permanent Secretaries: Scottish and Department of Industry, 36, 37, 41 , 42, Welsh Offices, 12, l3 43, 45, 46, 60 251 252 Index Department of Industry-continued 225-30, sources of national regional offices, 39, 41 differences, 230--46; territorial Welsh regional office, 50 units, 224-65 Department of Trade and Industry, reg­ Electoral register, 156 ional offices, 39 Employment Development Local Employment Acts 1960, 1963, British Development Agencies: 36, 37; 1972, 37' 39 SDA, 58; WDA, 58 regional employment premium, 37, Development Board for Rural Wales 54, 57 (DBRW), 53 England, 1-4 Development Commission, 42, 53: English Industrial Estates Corporation, special investment areas, 42 42 Development Consultative Commit­ Evans, Gwynfor, 76, 77, 130, 213 tee, 48 and Carmarthen by -election 1966, Development Cmporation for Wales, 87, 90 54 Devon and Cornwall Development Faulkner, Brian, 116, 117 Bureau, 43 Fianna Fail government, 115 Industrial Development Advisory Financial relationship with government Board, 40 of Scottish and Welsh Offices, Devlin, Bernadette, 111 22-9 Devolution, 4, 16, 25, 31, 164 Fitt, Gerry, 111 and Labour party, 177-200 Ford, 19, 51 and voting, 235-6 Foreign Office, 60 in Wales, 225 Forth Bridge, 17 see also Assembly, referendum Devolution Acts 1978, 219 Gardiner Committee Report on Ter­ Disraeli, Benjamin, 146, 152 rorism 1975, 121 Dounreay prototype fast reactor, 17 Gittins Report on Primary Education in Downing Street Declaration August Wales 1968,71, 86, 87, 88, 89,94 1969, 113 Gladstone, W. E., 149 Drax B power station, 196 'Gosch en formula', 23 Government of Ireland Act 1949, 109 Economic Strategy (or Policy) Commit­ Griffiths. James, 182 tee, 14 Education Haddow, Sir Douglas, 16, 22 Education Act 1902, 150 'Haddow negotiation', 24 Education Act 1944, 79, 80 Hanham, Professor, 32 Education Acts 1979, 1980, 166 Harland and Wolff, 57 Education Bill 1979, 93 Haughey, Charles, 115 and language policy, 78-85 Heath, Edward, 114, 119 Welsh-medium, 80, 81, 82 and Declaration of Perth 1968, 163 Electoral behaviour Highlands and Islands Development class alignments, 235-7 Board, 44, 49, 53 and devolution, 235-6 Home Office, 10 religion and voting, 237-8 Home Rule Bill, 156, 157 and social attitudes, 232-3 Housing Act 1980, 166 and social class, 231-2, 239-41 Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scot­ variations in: national deviations, land) Act, 188 Index 253 Hughes, Cledwyn, 184 birth and advancement, 156 Humber Bridge, 18 and centralisation, 181-3 Hunt Report on Police 1969, 113 and devolution proposals, 192-200 and Home Rule, 179-83 Immigration, 161 and the Nationalist challenge, 183- Industrial Development Act 1966, 36, 92: Scottish reaction, 187-90; 37' 55 Welsh reaction, 184-7 Industrial Development Associations Scottish Labour Party, 192 (IDAs), 43 and the state, 178--9 Industrial Development Certificates territorial politics, 159, 170 (IDCs), 36, 37, 41, 46, 55 voting, 227-47 Industrial Policy, regional dimension, in Wales, 13 34-65 and Welsh language, 93-4 decentralisation, 35: to Scotland, Welsh Manifesto, October 1974, 44-9; to Wales, 50-4 186 deconcentration, 35, 36-55: evolu­ Laws challenges to: in Wales, 130; trade tion of English sub-system, unionists, 130 38--44 Layfield Report on Local Government devolved, 35 Finance, 27 Industry Act 1972, 39, 55 Lewis, Saunders, BBC Wales radio lec­ International Business Machines (IBM), ture 1962, 86, 87 17 Liberal party, 73, 145-6, 151 , 155, 158, Internment, 114 180 Ireland voting , 227- 47 Ireland Act 1949, 123 Llantrisant, new Royal Mint, 18 Congested Districts Board 1891, 150 Local Employment Acts, 55 Crimes Act 1887, 150 Local Enterprise Development Unit Land Purchase Acts 1885, 1888, (LEDU), 58 1891, 1896, 1903, 150 Local government Irish Department of Agriculture and central-local government relation­ Technical Instruction 1898, 150 ship, 27-8 Irish Free State, 107 Local Government Act 1888, 150 Irish National Liberation Army, 120 metropolitan borough councils in Irish Question, 149, 155, 156 London 1899, 150 Irish Republican Army (IRA), 108, 113, Planning and Land Act 1980, 166, 115, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124 167' 168 Irish settlement, 159 reform of local government in Scot­ land 1889, 150 Johnston, Tom, 15 reorganisation of local government: Jones, Emrys, 184 Glamorgan, Strathclyde, 10 Joseph, Sir Keith, Secretary of State for Scottish Development Agency, 189, Industry, 46 190, 191, 192, 195 Loyalist cause, 120 Kilbrandon Report: see Constitution, Royal Commission on MacStiofain, Sean, 122 Kinnock, Neil, speech in committee Marsh, Professor D., minority report in stage of Wales Bill, 83, 97 Gittins Report 1968, 87-8 Maudling, Reginald, 115 Labour Party, 159 McNeil, Hector, 15, 17 254 Index Mid-Wales Development Cmporation, industrial policy: devolvement, 54-9 53 Industries Development Acts 1966, Mid-Wales Industrial Development As­ 1971, 55 sociation, 53 nationalists: constitutional goals, Ministry of Housing and Local Govern- 207-8 ment, Welsh Office of, 11 Northernlreland0ffice,60, ll8, ll9 Ministry of Technology, 37 Parliament (Stormont), 107, 108, Mint, Royal, 184, 191 109, llO, Ill, ll2, 113, l14, Monetarism, 167 116, 121, 122, 124, 129; suspen­ sion of 1972, 54, 57 National Economic Development Coun­ 'power-sharing' executive 1974, 126 cil (NEDC), 53, 61 Selective Employment Payment, 54 National Enterprise Board (NEB), 42, Temporary Provisions Billl972, 114 48, 49, 53, 55, 58, 61, 196 UKREP- United Kingdom Represen- National Front, 225 tative in Northern Ireland, 121, Nationalism, 69 122 linguistic, 68 Nationalists 0' Neill, Terence, 110, Ill, 112 in Gwynedd, 73 0' Shea divorce 1890, 148 Scottish Nationalist Party, 4, 129 Welsh (Plaid Cymru), 129 Paisley, Dr I., Ill Nationalist parties Parliament, 1-3 class support for, 217 Scottish Grand Committee, 9 diversity in electoral success, 212-18 Scottish Members, 9 electoral performance in Westminster Select Committee on Scottish Affairs, elections 1945-79, 214 9, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 Labourgovemment'sreaction, 190-2 Select Committee on Welsh Affairs, support and group mobilisation, 216 10, 54 UK nationalist parties, 202-20 George Younger, 46 within-nation dispersion of nationalist Plaid Cymru, 4, 73, 76, 82, 83, 86 vote, 215 analysis of conference motions, 210 see also Plaid Cymru, Scottish Na­ constitutional goals, 206-7 tional Party nationalism, 203 Needs Assessment Study- Report see nationalists, Welsh 1977-9, 23 'Pork-barrel' politics, 15, 18, 19, 20, Noble, Michael, 15 21, 24, 29 North of England Development Council, 'Power-sharing' government, ll6 43 Provisional IRA, 213 North Sea oil, 10, 190, 235 Provisional Sinn Fein, 122 North-West Industrial Development As­ sociation (NWIDA), 43 Rate Support Grant (RSG), 21 Northern Ireland, 3-5 Referendum on Assemblies for Scotland Civil Service, 118 and Wales, 4, 86, 89, 196-7, 198 Constitution Act 1973, ll6 Regional Development Agencies, 42 Department of Commerce (DOC), 55, Regional Development Grants, 36, 39, 56,57,58 46 Development Agency (NIDA), 49, Regional Development Officers' 58, 59 Liaison Committee, 48 government of, II Regional Directors, 40 Index 255 Regional Economic Planning Board Secretary of State for Scotland, 9, 44, (REPS), 38, 44 45, 46, 47; Scottish Secretary­ Regional Economic Planning Council ship, 12; Scottish Secretaries, (REPC), 38 12; George Younger, 46 Regional Employment Premium (REP), Select Committee for Scottish Af­ 37 fairs, 9: 1969, 22; 1980, 23, 24, Regional Industrial Development 25, 26 Boards, 40, 45 Scottish Office, 9-32,44-6,50,51,60 Scottish and Welsh Industrial De- relationship with Whitehall,
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