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Correspondence with Members of Parliament, in alphabetical order by surname. With a listing of MPs (dated 2002) at the front of the file.

Covers a wide range of topics including

• Parliamentary Questions (PQs) relating to occupational and environmental health & safety, DHSS/DSS policies, DHSS/DSS procedures, DHSS/DSS leaflets and DHSS/DSS shortcomings
• Dr Kevin Browne's dual role as Cape Asbestos consultant and medical officer at DHSS medical boarding center for respiratory diseases
• constituents who happen to be also be SPAID/OEDA clients

Papers, press clippings, and photographs relating to asbestos in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Includes:
-brief notes relating to asbestos cases in Barking
-some handwritten research notes about topics such as asbestos found in Barking and waste disposal procedures
-correspondence about Barking cases of asbestos and the Cape factory
-a lot of notes and correspondence about a case of asbestos contaminated soil in Whiting Avenue, 1978
-papers relating to Barking Community Health Council
-correspondence (chiefly with Margaret Sharkey) and telephone memoranda
-press clippings

Correspondence with Anthony Coombs of John Pickering & Partners LLP, in reverse chronological order. Covers current cases, T&N bankruptcy, Anthony Mendelle as witness on Cape Asbestos in Barking, pleural plaques, OEDA finances. Also includes

• copy of reasons for judgement in Frederick Price v. Powergen plc (1998)
• draft of John Pickering & Partners brochure on asbestos compensation in the UK (1997), written specifically for Australian audiences
• John Pickering & Partners brochures on compensation for personal injury, 1996

For subsequent correspondence with Coombs, see link below.

Correspondence with John Pickering & Partners LLP, organised by topic:

• shipping
• compensation (including re compensation bill 2005)
• Cape plc (re group action against the company on behalf of South African miners)
• fibre counts
• the Fairchild judgement
• Association of British Insurers (ABI); includes copy of ABI's ‘Guidelines for apportioning and handling employers liability mesothelioma claims’ (2003)
• restructuring of Zurich Insurance Company
• T&N, including correspondence with the administrators of T&N

• correspondence and papers re Rita Ann Ashdown, mesothelioma victim, who had lived in a Council flat on the Harts Lane Estate in Barking, the former site of a Cape Asbestos factory. Includes particulars of claim Rita Ann Ashdown v. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2002; press coverage 2001-2003
• correspondence and papers re Barbara Ann Mead, d. 2002 of mesothelioma: transcript of coroners proceedings
• correspondence and papers re Barking, 1993-2001, including telephone memoranda, solicitors’ correspondence and press coverage
• copy of a report by Dr Kevin Browne, 25 January 1995, on a recent claim brought against Cape by a Barking resident
• correspondence with Peter Brady, Dublin, 1986, on his own case against Cape, including photocopy of minutes of a meeting of directors of Cape Insulation (Ireland) Ltd, 1977
• SPAID correspondence re Barking 1983-1986
• articles on SPAID‘s work 1984-1985, typescript of case notes Homerton University Hospital, Hackney, from Nancy Tait’s presentation (with Dr V J Harvey), ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983
• reports (1983) on safety arrangements at Cape Asbestos, Barking, and copies of related records 1956-1968, received through Anthony T Mendelle via litigator Richard Meeran. Including photocopies of Cape Asbestos Barking Factory Annual Report 1961 & 1962, also report on a visit to Cape subsidiary plants in the USA (n.d.). Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking

Set of industry brochures from Cape Boards and Panels Ltd and Cape Universal Claddings Ltd.

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the South African law suit against Cape Asbestos.

Includes papers of BAMCWU, the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union, which organised workers in the Penge mine in the Sekhukhune District, South Africa. Also includes a photocopy of extract from Union of South Africa, Department of Mines and Industries 'Annual report of the Government Mining Engineer for the calendar year ended 31 December 1915'.

• copy of affidavit of J L Sparkes, consultant to Cape plc and formerly the Company Secretary of Cape plc
• copy of Kevin Browne's discussion of [ ], notably re the grounds for the allegation that Cape should be held responsible for Mr [ ]'s mesothelioma

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the Cape Asbestos Fund. Includes successive proposals 'for a scheme of arrangement in respect of asbestos liabilities’.

• correspondence chiefly with John Todd re how he and his fellow laggers are affected by asbestos and re his awareness raising campaign; also with the TGWU, health and safety experts, the media
• correspondence with Margaret Bain (MP East Dunbartonshire) and John Healey (of Leven, Fife)
• photocopies of John Todd's correspondence with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the environmental health department of the city of Glasgow, the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), various newspapers, and the TGWU
• press coverage 1974-1976 and other papers

Correspondence with John Todd, a prominent representative of the Glasgow branch of the TGWU, 1984-1986.

Includes Todd’s medical notes, e-mails on his death in 2004, copy of extract of his father's entry in the Register of Deaths in 1944.

Successive versions of John Todd's compilation on asbestos victims from the Glasgow branch of the TGWU, 1975-1983, and correspondence with the victims 1967-1979.

Photocopies of correspondence and papers (including press cuttings), in reverse chronological order. Includes

• Nancy Tait's call, in March 1977, for an Asbestos Protection Trust to be set up with the aim of providing "information and sympathetic advice [to those] who develop asbestos diseases and their families", and "information and encouragement [to] individuals and organisations working to ensure the safety of those using asbestos and its substitutes"
• correspondence with future trustees of SPAID, among other things seeking advice on the Health & Safety Commission's (HSC) reluctance to accept Tait's evidence
• correspondence with experts (Prof. P C Elmes of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit at Penarth, Prof. I Selikoff, Prof. P E Enterline (biostatistician at the University of Pittsburgh), Barry Castleman, Prof. Patrick Lawther of the MRC Air Pollution Unit); with the asbestos industry (Turner & Newall, the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), Cape Industries); with trade union representatives including the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, and re Judge Rene Beaudry's 393-page preliminary report on the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada; according to Beaudry the provincial asbestos limit to be enforced in 1978 was inadequate
• correspondence relating to a television appearance during which Tait showed a cooking mat with an asbestos warning label, transmitted late January / early February 1977, and correspondence arising from a radio broadcast featuring Tait on asbestos (BBC 'World this weekend', 30 January 1977)
• a little correspondence with families of individuals suffering from asbestos-related disease
• copy of Tait's 'Asbestos press release', spring 1977

• correspondence and papers (including press coverage) re British Rail 1985-1991
• correspondence and press reports re Ralph Pickett, 1974-1978; Mr Pickett (d.1977) had worked in an engineering workshop of British Rail for 25 years and developed asbestosis
• correspondence with F C Walmsley of British Rail Eastern region re effects of asbestos dust, 1975

A single spiral bound notebook with handwritten notes inside, in Nancy Tait's handwriting.
Notes cover topics such as: case details; regulations; research into fibres; political questions; monitoring of asbestos; and general research notes.