| Title |
Social security |
| Reference |
KNNK 11/2 |
| Covering Dates |
1982–1992 |
| Extent and Medium |
7.5 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Subjects include: pensioners; winter fuel payments to the elderly; policies for the disabled; benefits for families, women and young people. |
| Index Terms |
| Social Security |
| Churchill/KNNK 11/2 contains: |
|
1
|
Old Age Pensions. Correspondence with Jack Jones, President of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) Retired Members Associations, with supporting papers, on pension provision.
1 file. |
Jun 1983-Sep 1983 |
|
2
|
Cold weather payments and social security. Briefings and reports on winter fuel payments to the elderly and social security issues.
1 file. |
Dec 1984-Jan 1985 |
|
3
|
Fuel Poverty. Briefings, reports and correspondence on winter fuel payments to the elderly and the Old and Cold campaign. Correspondents include: Robin Cook [health spokesman]; Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Energy.
2 files. |
Jan 1982-Nov 1987 |
|
4
|
Welfare State: general. Cuttings on social policy and poverty.
1 file. |
Sep 1982-Apr 1986 |
|
5
|
Social Security: women. Cuttings and briefings on maternity rights, housing benefit etc and general social security reform.
1 file. |
Jan 1985-Dec 1986 |
|
6
|
Social Security: general. Cuttings and briefings on changes to social security, mainly under the Social Security Act (1986), particularly on cold weather payments, social security cuts since 1979 and anti-poverty measures.
1 file. |
Oct 1984-Nov 1986 |
|
7
|
Social Security: services. Briefings and cuttings on services for the elderly and a draft discussion paper from the Shadow Cabinet working group on Old Age policy.
1 file. |
Feb 1985-Aug 1986 |
|
8
|
Social Security: housing. Briefings, cuttings and correspondence on old people's homes and housing for the elderly and those with special needs.
1 file. |
Jun 1986-Oct 1986 |
|
9
|
Social Security costings. Cuttings and briefings on poverty and cuts in social security.
1 file. |
Sep 1978-Jun 1987 |
|
10
|
Social Security: general. Includes: draft candidate's guide; notes on Housing Benefit proposals; Social Security Consortium papers on alternatives to the Social Security Act (1986); Supplementary Benefit comparisons with Income Support; papers on the Social Fund; papers on poverty and children.
1 file. |
Dec 1986-Jul 1987 |
|
11
|
Disabled. Correspondence with individuals including Thomas Clarke [health and social security (personal social services) spokesman], and cuttings on Labour's policy for people with disabilities, particularly relating to the Severe Disablement Allowance and the Social Security Act and Disabled Persons Act, 1986.
1 file. |
Dec 1983-Mar 1992 |
|
12
|
Disabled. Briefings, cuttings and consultation papers on the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Bill, 1986.
1 file. |
Mar 1986-Jul 1987 |
|
13
|
Pensions. Cuttings, briefings and background papers on pensions policy, including a draft press release from Michael Meacher, health and social security spokesman, on Labour's housing finance rescue package.
1 file. |
May 1985-May 1987 |
|
14
|
Pensions. Briefings and cuttings on pension provision, party policy and fuel poverty, including notes from the National Pensioners' Convention.
1 file. |
Jan 1986-Feb 1987 |
|
15
|
Pensions. Briefings and cuttings on pension provision and SERPS [State Earnings Related Pension Scheme], including texts of speeches by NK and material from the British Labour Group European information campaign for pensioners press conference.
1 file. |
Feb 1985-Apr 1987 |
|
16
|
Pensioners' Liaison Forum. Includes: briefings for and notes from NK's meetings with the forum (the joint committee of pensioners' organisations); correspondence with the forum, various pensioners' organisations and Jack Jones, President of the Transport and General Workers' Retired Members Associations; notes from the Policy Review relating to pensioners; note on the forum's purpose; text of a speech by Edwina Currie, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, at a Pensioners' health day; paper on Conservative benefit cuts; annual report (1986-87) from the Welsh branch of the British Pensioners and Trade Unions Action Association; papers on economic equality for pensioners; transcript of a BBC Radio 4 Today Programme interview with Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on means testing pensioners' benefits; briefing on securing the pensioner vote.
2 files. |
Jun 1987-Mar 1992 |
|
17
|
Social Security benefits and young people. Cuttings, briefing papers and correspondence on cuts in supplementary benefit for unemployed teenagers.
1 file. |
Oct 1986-Feb 1988 |
|
18
|
Social Security Bill, 1987. Background papers and briefings on the bill, particularly relating to child benefit and family credit, including copies of correspondence between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister.
1 file. |
Nov 1987-May 1988 |
|
19
|
Social Security Bill, 1987: figures. Background papers, figures and briefings on the bill.
1 file. |
May 1988 |
|
20
|
Social Security: general. Cuttings and briefings on changes to social security in April 1988 under the Social Security Act (1986).
1 file. |
Jan 1988-Apr 1988 |
|
21
|
Correspondence on Social Security Benefits: general. Letters from members of the public receiving benefits on the results of the Social Security Act (1986), implemented in April 1988.
4 files. |
Apr 1988-Sep 1988 |
|
22
|
Correspondence on Social Security Benefits: pensioners. Letters from pensioners on their difficulties with social security and income support, with supporting briefs and papers "One Year On", on the results of the Social Security Act (1986), implemented in April 1988.
1 file. |
Feb 1989-Apr 1989 |
|
23
|
Health and Safety. Cuttings and reports on fatal accidents in the building and engineering industries.
1 file. |
Jun 1987-Oct 1988 |
|
24
|
Opening of new offices of the Mobility Trust. Briefing and speech notes for NK's visit to the Trust (founded to develop and fund special road vehicles for severely disabled people).
1 file. |
Jun 1988 |
|
25
|
80th anniversary of the Old Age Pension Act. Draft of NK's speech at a rally to celebrate the anniversary.
1 file. |
Sep 1988 |
|
26
|
Motability. Briefings and correspondence on a voluntary organisation supplying vehicles to recipients of the Mobility Allowance, including their lead-free petrol campaign.
1 file. |
Dec 1977-Oct 1989 |
|
27
|
Family policy. Notes on the need to focus on women and the family, and correspondence on splits in the Shadow Cabinet over the issue between Joan Lestor [children's affairs spokesperson], Jo Richardson [women's rights spokesperson], Michael Meacher [social security spokesman], Harriet Harman [health spokesperson] and Hilary Armstrong [education spokesperson].
1 file. |
Jul 1990 |
|
28
|
Women. Letter from Jo Richardson, women's rights spokesperson, with a Shadow Cabinet paper on plans for a Ministry of Women, and a letter from Lady Howe of Aberavon, chairman of Business in the Community, on taking forward women's economic development.
1 file. |
Jul 1990-Mar 1992 |
|
29
|
Concessionary coal scheme. Copies of correspondence between representatives of the National Concessionary Fuel Office, Kevin Barron [energy spokesman] and representatives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on British Coal Corporation's cash in lieu of concessionary coal scheme for retired miners.
1 file. |
Jan 1991-Apr 1991 |
|
30
|
Cold weather payments. Copies of correspondence between NK and Margaret Thatcher, then John Major, Prime Minister, research papers, press releases, extracts from Hansard etc on winter fuel payments to the elderly.
1 file. |
1976-Feb 1991 |
|
31
|
Cold weather payments. Cuttings, press releases and background papers on winter fuel payments to the elderly.
1 file. |
Feb 1991 |
|
32
|
Charities tax. Correspondence with representatives of Help The Aged and the Charities Tax Reform Group on VAT on charities. Includes copies of correspondence between Nicholas Brown and John Marek [Treasury and economic affairs spokesmen].
1 file. |
Nov 1990-Jul 1991 |
|
33
|
Pensioners. Correspondence on Labour's policies for pensioners, including the Maxwell Pensioners [those affected by Robert Maxwell's diversion of money from the Mirror Group pension fund].
1 file. |
Apr 1991-Apr 1992 |
|
34
|
Pensioners. Correspondence and briefings on pensions, including the Maxwell Pensioners [those affected by Robert Maxwell's diversion of money from the Mirror Group pension fund], pensioners in Wales and options for equality in state pension age. Correspondents include Michael Meacher [social security spokesman].
1 file. |
Jun 1991-Jun 1992 |
|
35
|
Disabled Person's Act. Correspondence on disabled policies, with speech notes from a visit to a Deaf Accord awards ceremony.
1 file. |
Aug 1991-Oct 1991 |
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