Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Solicitor's Department Files

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Details of PIN 31
Reference: PIN 31
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Solicitor's Department Files
Description:

This series contains files of the Legal Department of the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors concerning health and social security statutes and regulations.

The files were registered in the L, LC, LP and LX series, and cover policy matters, the determination of legal questions, civil and criminal proceedings for fraud etc, and internal organization.
Date: 1939-2010
Arrangement:

  • The series have the following designations
  • L1-L900 - Routine questions
  • L2000 et seq - Determination of legal questions
  • LC - Civil proceedings, recoveries case files
  • LC.98/ - Policy files
  • LC/DOM - Internal organisation
  • LP - Criminal prosecutions
  • LX - Oral hearings, case files
Related material:

For other files relating to cases submitted to the minister for his decision under sections of the National Insurance Act 1946 and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 see PIN 48
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: L, LC, LP and LX File series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

Ministry of National Insurance, Solicitors Department, 1946-1947

Ministry of Pensions, 1916-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968
Physical description: 406 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1979 Department of Health and Social Security

From 1979
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

General legal advice was given to the headquarters divisions on all branches of the work of the Solicitor's Department including court proceedings in both criminal and civil cases.

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