Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and successors: Private Office, Ministers' Papers

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Reference: PIN 92
Title: Ministry of Pensions and successors: Private Office, Ministers' Papers
Description:

This series consists of papers concerning policy development and implementation discussed within the Private Office of the Ministry of Pensions and its successors .

The files contain correspondence, working papers, notes and minutes of meetings, statistics, speeches and ministers' briefs. They cover many topics, including quinquennial reviews of the national insurance scheme, appointments and constitution of the National Assistance Board, functions and organisation of the ministry, National Assistance, National Insurance and Family Allowance legislation.

Date: 1950-1977
Arrangement:

No discernible order on transfer.

Related material:

Private Office papers of the senior officers of the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health and Social Security can be found in BN 13

Registered files of the Private Office of the Department of Health and Social Security can be found in BN 72

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of Pensions, 1916-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

Physical description: 119 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department of Social Security

Custodial history: Transferred to the Department of Social Security, 1988-, in 1988.
Accruals: Series is not accruing.

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