| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, copies of published material, newsletters, leaflets, project proposal and funding requests relating to The Constitution Unit. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: Robert Hazell founded the Constitution Unit in 1995 to do detailed research and planning on constitutional reform in the UK. The Unit has done work on every aspect of the UK’s constitutional reform programme: devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions, reform of the House of Lords, electoral reform, parliamentary reform, the new Supreme Court, the conduct of referendums, freedom of information, the Human Rights Act. The Unit is the only body in the UK to cover the whole of the constitutional reform agenda. The Unit conducts academic research on current or future policy issues, often in collaboration with other universities and partners from overseas, organises regular programmes of seminars and conferences, carries out consultancy work for government and other public bodies and acts as a special adviser to government departments and parliamentary committees. The Unit is based at the University College London. Nature of support: In 1995 the Trust approved two annual grants of £10,000 to the Unit. Minutes: BCT 113, BCT 178. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |