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Paper and correspondence with and re HSE proposals to amend the control of asbestos at work (CAW) regulations. Includes

• correspondence with the HSE, in particular Jeanie Cruickshank and Carole Grainger
• Nancy Tait's comments on HSE consultative document CD 159 (2000) on 'Proposals for amendments to the control of asbestos at work (CAW) regulations 1987 [etc]'
• copy of House of Commons Research Paper 99/81 (5 October 1999) 'Asbestos'
• OEDA response to HSE consultative document CD 140 (1998) on 'Proposed amendments to the asbestos (prohibitions) regulations 1992'
• OEDA response to HSE consultative document CD 129 (1998) on 'Proposals for amendments to the asbestos regulations and supporting approved codes of practice'; also responses by GMB (General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union) and by John Flanagan (Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group)

End matter is copies of scientific and legal papers including

• excerpt from J Addison & L S T Davies (1990) ‘Analysis of amphibole asbestos in chrysotile and other minerals’
• extract from memorandum of law of plaintiff, Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc and Turner & Newall Ltd, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1989
• copy of typescript G W Crockford & D Gazzi (1983) ‘Airborne asbestos dust survey of the Lisson Green flats: final report’
• copy of 1981 announcement of HSC asbestos scheme
• copy of William J Campbell et al. (1979) ‘Relationship of mineral habit to size characteristics for tremolite cleavage fragments and fibers’, Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation

Paper and correspondence with and re HSE proposals to amend the control of asbestos at work regulations (CAWR). Includes

• correspondence with Michael Clapham and other MPs, including re the work of journalist Christopher Booker
• excerpts from Hansard reports of relevant debates
• printout of Statutory Instrument No 2675 'Control of asbestos at work regulations 2002'

Correspondence re the legality of second hand sales of asbestos sheets, 1997-2000. Includes extensive excerpts from Hansard report of the parliamentary debate on methods of monitoring asbestos, December 1981, with multiple references to SPAID's work.

Correspondence and papers relating to Financial Services Authority (FSA) 'Consultation paper 108: financial services compensation scheme: draft transitional rules'.

Includes

• correspondence with Tony Worthington, MP, and other members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-committee
• Nancy Tait's commentary on the draft transitional rules
• copy of FSA (July 2000) 'Consultation paper 58: financial services compensation scheme draft rules'

Correspondence (with the SPAID trustees) and papers, among them IYPD News, press releases, promotional material, information leaflets and posters.

Invitations, replies and other correspondence re the launch of the SPAID fellowship (“for those disabled by industry, their family and friends”).

In reverse chronological order and by theme (‘o/s London’, ‘monthly mtgs’, ‘concerts’, ‘thank you letters’, ‘attendance’, ‘replies’, ‘fellowship membership’, ‘individual invitations’, etc). Includes copy of the SPAID 'Compensation leaflet' and textile sample, for a potential SPAID Fellowship tie.

Two posters for the inaugural occasion at St Barnabas, Bethnal Green, on 20 June 1981 promised "advice, tea, music, table tennis".

Colour photographs of Nancy Tait celebrating with her fellow asbestos critics at St Barnabas, London, ?2005.

Various versions of address lists.

Correspondence re the distribution of Cancer Prevention Society, Glasgow (CPSG) pamphlets after the CPSG was dissolved, 1989-1990. Includes a set of the pamphlets.

Copies of letters to Scottish politicians.

Correspondence with and re Justice for Asbestos Victims (JAV) Northern Ireland and the BBC Northern Ireland, 2003-2006. Also earlier historic documentation on asbestos in Belfast.

Correspondence and flyers.

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.

One email and copy of newsletter of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers chiefly re funding for Mavis Robinson’s Mesothelioma Patient Information Project, Leeds, initially funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief. Also papers re the founding of the British Mesothelioma Interest Group in 2001.

Includes charity leaflets and articles, newsletters concerning conferences, trials, etc..

Mavis Robinson was a nurse who set up the first dedicated mesothelioma helpline. In 2001 she was awarded an MBE for her seminal work assisting UK asbestos victims and their carers.