Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Appointments to the National...

PIN 73

1934-1976

This series contains registered files of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Ministry of Social Security and Department of Health and Social Security relating to appointments to the National Assistance Board, National Assistance Appeals Tribunals and Supplementary Benefits Commission.

Some papers in this series pre-date the creation of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (MPNI). They were created in the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Ministry of Labour and subsequently re-registered by the MPNI as part of the NA series of registered files.

The NA file series continued to be used by the Ministry of Social Security and its successor body, the Department of Health and Social Security.

NA file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
• Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966
• Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

29 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Topics

Welfare

Labour

Pay and pensions

Series is not accruing.

Under the terms of the National Assistance Act 1948, appointments to the National Assistance Board were made by the sovereign on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (who was advised in this by the Minister of National Insurance)

The Minister of National Insurance appointed the chairman and one of the two members of each National Assistance appeal tribunal, the other member being appointed by the National Assistance Board from a panel of persons nominated by the minister to represent work people's interests.

The National Assistance Board was abolished in 1966 on the creation of the Ministry of Social Security, and was replaced by the Supplementary Benefits Commission.