Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance: National Assistance (Modifications) Working Group: minutes and papers (IG series)

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Reference: PIN 95
Title: Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance: National Assistance (Modifications) Working Group: minutes and papers (IG series)
Description:

This series contains the minutes and papers of an inter departmental working group called the National Assistance (Modifications) Working Group. The group was chaired by Sir Donald Sargent, secretary to the National Assistance Board. Included are drafts and amendments to ministerial and cabinet papers. The group examined the implications of a national income guarantee scheme including discussions on the administration of a proposed scheme.

Date: 1964-1965
Related material:

AST 12

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IG
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Physical description: 28 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2005 Department for Work and Pensions

Selection and destruction information: Selected under appraisal policy 2.1.5 formulation and delivery of social policies
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Initially the working party was set up as the National Assistance (Modifications) Working Group. Later papers in the series include drafts and briefing notes for the Ministerial Committee on Social Services and discuss the impact and government wide implications of an income guarantee scheme.

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