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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’

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)

Correspondence and papers (including reports and research papers 1965-2002) re the IIAC Research Working Group meeting, 13 February 2003, to which Nancy Tait was invited to present her evidence. Previously, Tait had submitted three OEDA reports, 'Asbestos to challenge fibre counts', 'Asbestos fibres in lung tissue' (both 2002) and the earlier 'The diagnosis of asbestos-related lung cancer PDD8' (2001/2002).

Includes material from Tait's submissions, annotated current research papers and contemporary literature examining Sir Richard Doll’s career and questioning his authority. Older publications contained in this aggregation include:

• photocopy of Nancy Tait's paper (with Dr V J Harvey) (1983) 'Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital - a preliminary report', presented at the Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester
• photocopy of evidence presented by Nancy Tait and Jean Robinson to the Simpson Committee, 28 June 1977; on Jean Robinson see below
• extensively marked photocopy of H A Anderson et al. (1976) ‘Household-contact asbestos neoplastic risk’
• photocopy of M Newhouse and H Thompson (1965) 'Mesothelioma of pleura and peritoneum following exposure to asbestos in the London area'

Patient activist Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Correspondence and papers chiefly re parliamentary discussion, 25 February 1992, on Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ compensation). Includes

• correspondence with MPs Tam Dalyell, B Field, Eric Forth, P Hardy, Kim Howells, Tony Lloyd, G Lofthouse, W O'Brien, Allan Rogers, Dennis Skinner, Nigel Spearing, Andy Stewart
• correspondence with SPAID trustees
• also copy Scottish law commission’s report (1990) ‘The effect of death on damages’

Correspondence and papers relating to Clause 70 of the Social Security Bill, which imposed a time limit on backdating benefits. The bill was being reviewed by Standing Committee B at the time. Includes

• information on the composition of Standing Committee B
• correspondence addressed to Keith Bradley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security, and the House of Commons as such
• copies of amendments of the Bill
• correspondence addressed to the Prime Minister and John Battle MP, Minister for Science, Energy and Industry
• proposal by Owen Tudor (Senior Policy Officer, TUC, and member of the OEDA management committee) to form an OEDA Parliamentary Panel "to give more structure to the help we receive/request from MPs ..."

Correspondence in alphabetical order, by surname of MP.

Letter and faxes alerting select Members of Parliament (and select Members of the House of Lords, as well as the press) to an upcoming media briefing of the Asbestos International Association.

Letter (incomplete) re chrysotile and the Manville Trust, 1998. Also notes by Nancy Tait, 12 November 1998, on ‘Counts of fibres in lung tissue, using the electron microscope and x-ray analysis’, triggered by recent HSE proposals for a new study (possibly the 'population based case-control study of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to occupation among British men and women under the age of 60').

Only a partial sample of the letter (addressed to Mr Alan Meale MP) survives.

The Manville Trust was established in 1988 to resolve all further asbestos personal injury claims resulting from exposure to asbestos and asbestos containing products mined or manufactured by the Johns-Manville Corporation and its affiliated entities.

Correspondence in reverse chronological order, in response to a mail shot from SPAID sent out in early April 1988.

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 and papers re IIAC activities 1998-2003, in particular Nancy Tait's campaign for IIAC to address the issues associated with the diagnosis of asbestos-related lung cancer.

• copy of IIAC 'Proceedings of the 1st annual public meeting, 20 March 2003, Sheffield'
• papers relating to meeting of the IIAC research working group on 13 February 2003, to which Nancy Tait was invited
• papers relating to the meeting of the IIAC research working group, December 2002
• drafts of Nancy Tait's position paper on the diagnosis of lung cancer PDD8, sent to the IIAC in October 2002, and background material, including copy of Frank Burton QC (July 2002), 'Lung cancer, asbestos exposure, and smoking after Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd'. OEDA distributed its position paper among legal and medical consultants and other potentially interested parties
• correspondence re the House of Commons Asbestos Sub-committee's decision, in July 2002, that the IIAC should be asked to look at the diagnosis of asbestos-related lung cancer
• copy of Nick Wikeley's presentation to the Medico-Legal Society, 14 June 2001, 'Compensation for asbestos-related lung cancer' (amended version)

Also includes copies of

• IIAC ‘Annual report' 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002/3
• IIAC (1998) 'Consultation paper: occupational coverage for occupational deafness (prescribed disease A10)'