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Correspondence and papers re regular donations to OEDA from John Pickering & Partners Solicitors.

The quarterly revenue from this source was £5,000.

Correspondence and papers re OEDA's Health & Safety Policy. Includes a draft of the policy including 'Laboratory Health and Safety Policy' i.e. the policy covering the Electron Microscope Unit.

Copy of booklet HSE [2003] ‘Occupational health statistics bulletin 2002/03’

Correspondence and papers re the HSE conference on new legal duties to manage asbestos, arising from the 'Control of asbestos at work regulations' (CAWR) 2002. Includes list of delegates, slides of conference programme with Nancy Tait's annotations.

Correspondence and papers re British Lung Foundation’s mesothelioma summit, 9 March 2005.

Includes

• conference programme, speaker information
• copies of slides,
• Nancy Tait's notes
• leaflets of support groups such as Sheffield and Rotherham Asbestos Group (SARAG) and copies of SARAG and RASAG newsletters
• copy of Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group (n.d.) 'Asbestos: legislative bars to benefits and compensation: a charter for reform of benefits legislation, with an introduction by Michael Clapham MP'
• copy of John Pickering & Partners (2004) 'Asbestos compensation'

Press coverage, January to December 2003. In reverse chronological order. Some of the original cuttings mounted.

Mainly on asbestos but also covers other themes, among them the health threat posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Includes press coverage of Nancy Tait being shortlisted for the prestigious Beacon Award (category lifetime achievement).

Outgoing correspondence, 20 June to 31 October 2002, in reverse chronological order.

Outgoing correspondence, November 2002 to March 2003, in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence re donations, chiefly with insurance archaeologist Nick David of InSolutions whom Nancy Tait had met at an Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) seminar c. 2002. Includes copy of David's presentation on InSolutions at the seminar in question (in the form of a printout of his Powerpoint slides).

Recording of Meridian TV ‘Focus on asbestos’, transmitted 17 September 2002.

Recording of Carlton Television programme ‘Current affairs: the fatal fibre’. This was a Wash House Films Production and received an award from the Royal Television Society at the Regional Centres Awards 2003. Includes a covering letter and a note from Nancy Tait.

Legal fact sheets on a range of occupational diseases, by Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors. Also includes copy of 'Asbestos seminar: the patient killer' (presentation by Michael Imperato of RJW Solicitors).

Copies of Nancy Tait (2002), 'Asbestos fibres in lung tissue: an illustrated appraisal of analysis using a Transmission Electron Microscope'. Includes annotated drafts.

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