Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Bill Papers

This series contains papers relating to parliamentary bills sponsored by the Ministry of Health and its predecessors, the Local Government Board and, in the field of mental health, the Home Office. The volumes contain correspondence with government departments and others, draft bills, notes on clauses and amendments. Major legislation represented in this series includes the National Health Service Bill (1939-1946), the National Assistance Bill (1948), the Mental Health Bill (1959), and the National Health Service Reorganisation Bill (1973).

For similar papers see:

MH 53

MH 137

For bill papers relating to functions transferred from the Ministry of Health see PIN 3

For files on the Welsh NHS reorganisation see BD 89

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Home Office, 1782-

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968