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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)'

Correspondence (chiefly with IIAC officials, MPs, clients) and papers. Also includes correspondence with Nick Wikeley and Dr R M Rudd.

Covers review of prescription for industrial injuries disablement benefits (asbestos-related diseases) in the mid-1990s, reform of social security in the mid 1980s, changes over time in the wording of form BI 100 (Pn) and DHSS NI 226, rules of claims, difficulties caused by the DHSS administration, lung cancer without asbestosis and the effects of chrysotile asbestos, etc.

Includes copies of

• IIAC ‘Periodic report’ 1993, 1990
• IIAC (1991) ‘The industrial injuries scheme and the self-employed in construction and agriculture: a consultation paper'
• ‘Reform of social security: programme for action’ (Cmnd 9691)

Correspondence and papers re reform of the industrial injuries scheme (Cmnd 8402). Includes:

• DHSS discussion documents, draft papers and press releases 1980-1982
• some press reports 1979-1982
• correspondence between Nancy Tait, DHSS, solicitors and reporters, spring 1982
• invitation from the DHSS for Nancy Tait to attend a meeting of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), February 1982, and transcripts of her contributions
• SPAID commentary on asbestos-related diseases where asbestos is not present, submitted in response to a request for information received from the IIAC, January 1982
• copy of typescript by Alan Walker (June 1980) 'Industrial injuries compensation: the case for reforming the industrial injuries scheme', precirculated for the Disability Alliance Conference 'The industrial injuries scheme: is there a need for change?', Imperial College, London, 13 June 1980 (see link below)
• copy of DHSS discussion paper (February 1980) 'Industrial injuries compensation - a discussion document'
• correspondence between Nancy Tait and the IIAC, 1978-1979, introducing the newly founded SPAID

Papers and correspondence with and re HSE consultative document for revised Asbestos Regulations and an Approved Code of Practice (CD 205), in particular re the proposal to remove asbestos-containing textured decorative coatings from the licensing regime. Includes

• extensively annotated copy of Kevin Walkin and Geoff Lloyd (2006) 'A comparison of risks from different materials containing asbestos'
• copy of response to CD 205 by Adrian K Watson
• copy of summary of responses to CD 205 received
• copy of Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA) document 'Questions raised and HSE's response following consultation on the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006'
• summary of responses to CD 205 to be discussed at a stakeholder meeting on 4 April 2006
• Nancy Tait's comments and response to CD 205
• minutes of meeting of the All Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-Committee, 22 November 2005
• various versions of minutes of stakeholder meeting to discuss HSE proposals to implement the amendments to the Asbestos Worker Protection Directive (AWPD), 11 August 2005
• Nancy Tait's comments on the stakeholder meeting of 11 August 2005