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Series
Thalidomide 'Y' List Inquiry (Marre Inquiry): Records
Catalogue reference: BN 90
What's it about?
BN 90
Records of the Thalidomide 'Y' List Inquiry relating to the award of compensation for children disabled after their mothers took thalidomide while pregnant.The series includes interviews with families and individuals and drafts of the report.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BN 90
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Title (The name of the record)
- Thalidomide 'Y' List Inquiry (Marre Inquiry): Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Thalidomide 'Y' List Inquiry relating to the award of compensation for children disabled after their mothers took thalidomide while pregnant.
The series includes interviews with families and individuals and drafts of the report.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Thalidomide Y List Inquiry, 1978-1978
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2001 Department of Health
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Children
- Disability
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series began in 1978
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Duplicates and press cuttings have been destroyed.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In March 1978, with the agreement of Distillers Company (manufacturers of Thalidomide), the Minister for the Disabled appointed Sir Alan Marre to consider what further steps the Company should take in relation to any outstanding 'Y' List cases.
Thalidomide was marketed by Distillers in the UK from April 1958 to November 1961. In 1968, a settlement had been made for 61 children; a later settlement of 1973 provided compensation for another 338 children on the so-called 'X' List, which comprised those children whom Distillers accepted as children malformed because their mothers had taken a thalidomide preparation of their manufacture.
The 'Y' List originally comprised 97 children who had notified claims but had not been accepted by Distillers as thalidomide children at the time of the 1973 settlement. By the time of the commencement of the inquiry, 19 of these children had been accepted as thalidomide children, and a further three were so accepted while the inquiry was proceeding.
The inquiry's Report was produced in July 1978.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15431/
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