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Mainly correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re asbestos-related queries. Very occasionally the information flows in the opposite direction i.e. SPAID / OEDA asks questions.

Front matter includes material on access to medical records and how long hospitals keep records.

Correspondence and papers re the production of Nancy Tait (2000) 'Asbestos facts'. Includes

• correspondence with compensation lawyers re the content of relevant sections in the publication
• drafts in various stages
• copy of finished product
• notes relating to updates of the 2000 edition
• flyer for 'Asbestos facts'
• circular letter from Nancy Tait, announcing that the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) report reviewing the prescription of diseases attributable to asbestos, Cm 6553, will be laid before Parliament on 14 July 2005

Typescript list of personal injury lawyers, in alphabetical order by name of law firm, several versions.

Correspondence and papers, in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence, chiefly with Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), re death certification and re mesothelioma deaths making it into official death statistics. Includes draft of typescript 'Medical certificates of cause of death: notes for medical practitioners' (November 1984).

Correspondence and papers re the IIAC report reviewing the prescription of asbestos-related diseases (ADR), Cm 6553. Presented to Parliament in February 2005 and published in July 2005, the report admitted that asbestos can lead to lung cancer without asbestosis being present. It was taken to signal UK Government changes to the compensation scheme for asbestos-related lung cancer.

Structured as follows:
-‘IIAC after publication’: correspondence arising (with lawyers, trade unionists, representatives of victims support groups), including congratulatory letters and local press coverage celebrating Nancy Tait for her campaign work

• ‘Media inc Rory O’Neill’: correspondence re errors in graphs used in the report
• ‘LKA Henderson’: correspondence with Laurie Kazan-Allen and a much annotated copy of D W Henderson et al. (2004) ‘After Helsinki: a multidisciplinary review of the relationship between asbestos exposure and lung cancer, with emphasis on studies published during 1997-2004'
• ‘Ministers’ and ‘MPs’: a few press clippings and some incoming correspondence
• ‘Before publication’: correspondence chiefly re delays in the production and publication of the report, January-July 2005. Includes correspondence with Prof A J Newman Taylor (chairman of the IIAC) and a number of MPs, as well as a draft of the IIAC report dated January 2005
• ‘Hugh Robertson’: correspondence with Robertson, Owen Tudor's successor as senior health & safety policy officer of the TUC. Includes draft of the report dated November 2004
• ‘N Tait’: materials from Nancy Tait's mailshots in October 2002 and spring 2004

Also includes copies of

• IIAC ‘Annual report', 2003/4, 2004/5, 2005/6
• Cm 6553 with manually inserted corrected graphs

Correspondence (chiefly with John Flanagan) and papers, including agendas and minutes of meetings of the Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group. Also press coverage, trade union news, conference information, research papers, some case information. Further includes

• papers documenting foundation of National Asbestos Related Diseases Association (NARDA) as a nationwide body, 1997, and minutes of its meetings
• copy judgement Eileen Hare v. TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Liverpool County Court, 1998
• inquiry from Charlie Kavanagh, Liverpool Occupational Health Project, 23 April 1993, re data held by SPAID on financial cost to DSS of asbestos illness and also cost to DSS of asbestos medical tribunals, with photocopy of data entry masks of SPAID case database

Sometime during 2000 the Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group changed its name to Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Robert Pointer, Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group / Barrow Asbestos-related Disease Support Group, re awareness-raising concerning the dangers of asbestos. Starts with request Pointer for information to be used at TUC annual conference, later foundation asbestos victims support group.

Correspondence, 1997-1999, and papers re Plymouth, the Bill Luck's Plymouth asbestos support group, and the foundation of the National Asbestos Disease Association Limited (NARDA) as a national umbrella group of victims of asbestos related diseases (ARD) support groups.

Includes some historic documentation 1969-1976 as well.

Correspondence with Owen Tudor, TUC Senior Policy Officer & TUC Health and Safety Officer, and papers. Includes TUC briefings, TUC asbestos leaflets, reports, conference information, draft reports.

Covers discussions of draft OEDA publication ‘Asbestos: more facts why body counts’ (2001) (the precursor of 'Asbestos: to challenge "fibre counts"'), work of the TUC ban asbestos working group, setting up an OEDA parliamentary panel of MPs with particular interest in compensation for asbestos victims (1998), how a database of insurance companies as potential defendants in asbestos compensation cases could be used, compensation for mesothelioma, TUC official support for safety charities such as OEDA and the RSI Association, access for OEDA to RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) litigation database, etc.

Includes copies of

• TUC briefing documents for Workers' memorial day 2001
• TUC / Jacqueline Paige (1999) 'Women's health and safety at work: a woman's work is never safe'
• OEDA (1996) notes on 'Repetitive strain injury (RSI)' for TUC
• TUC (1995) 'Registering asbestos in public buildings' and annotated draft version
• TUC (1995) 'The future of union workplace safety representatives'

In chronological order.

Conference programme, list of participants, Nancy Tait's handwritten notes on the sessions.

Correspondence, telephone memoranda and papers (conference programmes, invitations) re events Nancy Tait and her staff considered attending, including events such as OEDA Fellowship group meetings at St Barnabas Church.

Correspondence and papers. Includes National Hazards Conference announcements, minutes of meetings of the National Hazards Campaign, occasionally minutes of the European Work Hazards Network Steering Group, successive versions of Hazards Campaign Charter.