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Papers and correspondence relating to the Langbaurgh public inquiry, 28 April 1981.

In 1980 Langbaurgh District Council adopted an anti-asbestos policy, refusing planning permission in six cases on the grounds that the projects involved asbestos use. Langbaurgh's policy was unusual at the time in that it was applied to both public and private building projects.

Appeals were lodged against the refusals. Four of the appeals came from local builder C & J Buckley and were backed by the Cement Manufacturers Association. During the ensuing public inquiry, Langbaurgh District Council was represented by QC Peter Boydell and called on evidence from Nancy Tait (SPAID) and G E Rushworth of the Glasgow-based Cancer Prevention Society.

SPAID's testimony at the inquiry, it was later asserted, "brought to light a lot of new information not available at the time of the Simpson Report in 1979" (House of Lords Debate 1 December 1981, vol 425 cc1008-31).

Langbaurgh was a borough in North East England.

Nancy Tait's proof of evidence, including extensive appendix. Also Tait's handwritten notes on the meeting.

Further includes

• papers marked 'Papers referred to not appended', among them parts of Alex Cross, '[Presentation at] Asbestos Information Association third annual industry-government conference, 8-9 September 1976'
• copy of SPAID's extensive critical commentary on the final report of the Health & Safety Commission (HSC) Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Report, 1979)
• HSC/HSE correspondence and papers 1975-1977

Proof of evidence Councillor Kevin Nilan, G E Rushworth and Peter William Wilson (Group Planning Officer of the Borough of Langbaurgh).

Further includes

• testimony of David Stephen Cooke, Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• correspondence between Nancy Tait, G E Rushworth, Kevin Nilan, the Borough Secretary of the Borough of Langbaurgh, and others; includes draft proof of evidence Nilan, Rushworth and Wilson

Photocopies of press reports.

• correspondence with the Department of Health & Social Security (DHSS) 1970-1981, intercalated with transcripts of House of Commons debates and correspondence with MPs
• correspondence and papers relating to recent cases, 1976, 1978-1981

The first component includes a copy of 'Comments from SPAID on diagnosis of asbestosis by Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels' [1979] and correspondence of Max Madden MP, 1974, among others with members of a Hebden Bridge group practice proposing to undertake an asbestosis study including retrospective survey using semistructured interviews, retrospective death certificate survey, and prospective asbestotic survey.

Three components:

• "Ireland | Dr Murray": Nancy Tait's correspondence with contacts in Ireland, 1977-1982, starting with copy of a statement by international asbestos expert Dr Robert Murray that the controversial Raybestos Manhattan brake-lining factory at Ovens and the waste-dump at Ringaskiddy, both Co Cork, were safe
• papers relating to EEC perceptions of and policy concerning asbestos, 1978-1981, including a note from Nancy Tait to Petra Kelly
• miscellaneous notes, correspondence, excerpts from publications c.1978-1981

Photocopies of research literature, in alphabetical order (by surname of author). Further includes bibliography, also handwritten notes on some of the papers.

Correspondence, notes, scientific reports and papers, press reports, also product information relating to the analysis/measurement of asbestos exposure, levels and guidelines, and sampling equipment. Includes

• Asbestosis Research Council (ARC) technical notes on dust sampling and measurement of airborne asbestos dust, c.1978
• product information re Charles Austen Pumps Ltd, Casella London Ltd, Rotheroe & Mitchell Ltd
• copy of F S Gill and I Ashton [1982] ‘Monitoring for health hazards at work’
• copy of E Gonzalez-Fernandez and F R Martín (1986) 'Comparison of NIOSH and AIA methods for evaluating asbestos fibres: effects of asbestos type, mounting medium, graticule type and counting rules', Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 30(4): 397-410
• EPA report by G Dufour et al. (1980) ‘Measurement of asbestos air pollution inside buildings sprayed with asbestos’, with related correspondence and notes on the report

Papers and correspondence re asbestos removal monitoring on Lisson Green Estate, 1984, a joint monitoring exercise involving Westminster City Council, scientific staff at Queen Mary College (QMC), and SPAID in the role of consultant to the tenants association.

Includes laboratory notes on QMC sampling analysis (using electron microscope technology), also report of airborne fibre sampling by the firm MSAX Services and report for SPAID by Casella London Limited Analytical and Environmental Services; this consisted in a 'sketch plan of the airborne fibre sampling programme for 21 Horwood House, Lisson Green Estate [etc]'.

Apparently there were problems with the project. Significantly fewer samples than planned were analysed and no written report emerged.

Correspondence and papers arising from a request of the governors of Winchmore Hill Primary School to advise on asbestos cement roofs of the school canteen and adjacent single story buildings. Includes

• correspondence with George Mitchell, Parent Representative and a governor of the school
• various drafts of SPAID’s ’Report on asbestos cement roofs, Winchmore Hill Primary School’, ?February 1988 (with appendices)
• photocopy of NAMAS ‘Directory of accredited asbestos testing laboratories’, January 1988
• copy of ‘Report of the Joint Central and Local Government Working Party on Asbestos’, March 1987
• much annotated photocopy of Spurny et al. (1979) ‘On the evaluation of fibrous particles in remote ambient air’
• photocopy of G J Burdett & S A M T Jaffrey (1986) ‘Airborne asbestos concentrations in buildings’

Papers and correspondence in response to a call from the National Audit Office to contribute to its study on the Industrial Injuries Scheme.

Includes drafts of SPAID response with extensive attachments, containing information on how the administration of the scheme is failing those who suffered disablement as the result of an industrial accident.

In compiling the SPAID response, sensitive persona data was used, including medical records, information on individual claimants & details on progress of their cases with the Benefits Agency, Medical Appeals Tribunal, etc.

Annotated copy of 'A joint technical document concerning people centred issues of respiratory diseases in Wales' (January 1992) and copy of final version, February 1992.

In 1991 a primary appraiser of the Welsh Health Planning Forum was asked to provide a broad picture of respiratory disease as seen from the patients' perspective, based on desk research and the experience of experts. The People Centred Panel of Review were asked to develop a joint technical document from the original appraisal. Nancy Tait served on the panel.

Invitation from the Law Reform Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland for Nancy Tait to comment on how often industrial injury claimants encountered the issue at the heart of Arnold v. Central Electricity Generating Board (i.e. latency) and that dealt with in Bradley v. Eagle Star (i.e. multiple employers).

Nancy Tait's response to Consultation Paper CP 08/02 on the implementation of the Joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission report (September 2002) ‘Third parties – rights against insurers’. Includes:

• Nancy Tait's response, November 2002
• annotated copy of Lord Chancellor's Department (September 2002) ‘Third parties – rights against insurers: a Consultation Paper on the implementation of the Joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission Report "Third parties – rights against insurers" by way of a regulatory reform order'
• Department for Constitutional Affairs (February 2004) 'Third parties – rights against insurers: analysis of the responses to the Consultation Paper on the implementation of the Joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission Report "Third parties – rights against insurers" by way of a regulatory reform order' (CP (R) 08/02)