Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1979 - 1992 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Correspondence, meeting papers, discussion documents, booklets and leaflets relating to the Attendance Allowance Board, an independent statutory body created to adjudicate on benefit claims by people with physical or mental disabilities, and to advise the UK government on the administration of the allowance. Cicely Saunders joined the Board in 1970, and was Vice Chairman, 1978-1985. File includes: correspondence, 1985, with fellow members Anthony Harold ('Tony') Newton, Minister of State for Social Security and the Disabled, and Professor John Marshall, Chairman, relating to Saunders' resignation; text of a UK government report on the Social Security Bill, 1989; correspondence on the termination of the Board, 1992. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2072.