Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and predecessors: Pensions and Insurance Files

This series contains files of the Ministry of Health continued in the Ministry of National Insurance and the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance relating to the administration of national health insurance, contributory old age, widows' and orphans' pensions, and national insurance.

A few files relate to the administration of, and appeals under, the non-contributory old age pensions scheme.

The series also contains incomplete sets of statements, meetings, agenda and minutes of evidence of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance 1924-1925, and minutes of meetings of a sub-committee of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee in 1930.

See also Ministry of Health and successors, Division within MH

For Ministry of Health papers relating to the Inter-departmental Committee on Health and Unemployment Insurance (Watson committee) and the Committee on Insurance and other Social Services (Anderson Committee) see PIN 1

For National Health Insurance Commissions and Joint Committee volumes and files see PIN 2

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of National Insurance, Administrative Divisions, 1944-1948

Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department A, 1948-1953

Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department B, 1948-1953

Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1948-1953

Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department D, 1949-1953

Ministry of National Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Division, 1944-1948

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department A, 1953-1966

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department B, 1953-1966

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1953-1966

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