Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and predecessors: Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services Committee (Beveridge Committee), correspondence, papers and registered files (NI 99 series)

The first part of this series contains correspondence and papers of the central staff of the Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction under the Paymaster General including records of delegations received by Sir William Jowitt. The papers relate to the consideration and planning of administrative machinery to implement the Beveridge Report.

The second part of the series contains 100,000 series files (otherwise in MH 79 and PIN 19) of the Ministry of Health later transferred to the Ministry of National Insurance, and subsequently re-registered in a NI 99 series. These were re-registered in C (Chairman of Court of Referees) and DI (Disclosure of Information) and put into this series. They include papers reflecting both the direct responsibility of the department in the field of social insurance and allied services and departmental representation on the Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services Committee (Beveridge Committee), the Phillips Committee and the central staff.

Includes minutes, circulated papers and the report of the Phillips Committee.

For files also registered in the 100,000 series see:

HLG 30

HLG 68

For other committee papers and correspondence see Subseries within ACT 1

Beveridge Committee minutes and memoranda are in Subseries within CAB 87

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

War Cabinet, Committee on Reconstruction Problems, Central Staff, 1941-1943