Towards Exchequer Subsidies for Housing 1906–1914
1972; Wiley; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-9515.1972.tb00578.x
ISSN1467-9515
Autores Tópico(s)Political and Economic history of UK and US
ResumoSocial Policy & AdministrationVolume 6, Issue 1 p. 3-18 Towards Exchequer Subsidies for Housing 1906–1914 Paul Wilding, Paul Wilding Department of Applied Social Science, University of NottinghamSearch for more papers by this author Paul Wilding, Paul Wilding Department of Applied Social Science, University of NottinghamSearch for more papers by this author First published: January 1972 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1972.tb00578.xCitations: 3AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References 1 W. H. Power, 18421916; Principal Medical Officer to the Local Government Board, 1900–1908. 2 Secretary's Bill Papers, Vol. 91, Memo by W. H. Power, 14 March 1904. 3 Subsequently the National Housing and Town Planning Council. 4 Walter Long, 18541924; 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall; President of the Local Government Board 1900–05; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1916–18; First Lord of the Admiralty 1919–21. “a man who concealed a fine brain and a humane heart beneath the externals of an old-world country squire.” Arthur Marwick The Deluge, Pelican, 1967, p. 103. 5 Secretary's Bill Papers, Vol. 91. NHRC Memorandum to Walter Long, May 1905. 6 Secretary's Bill Papers, Vol. 91. Local Government Board Memorandum on the Housing of the Working Classes Acts Amendment Bill 1906, April 1906. 7 John Burns, 18581943; early member of the Social Democratic Federation; prominent in political agitation late 1880′ SMP 1892: President of LGB 1905–14; President of Board of Trade 1914. On 19 April 1907 Burns wrote in his Diary of his experiences at the LGB, “ Sixteen months of wrestling with fossils inside and fools outside has taken much of the milk of human kindness from me.” Roy M. MacLeod, Treasury Control and Social Administration, (Occasional Papers on Social Administration No. 23), Bell and Sons Ltd., 1968, p. 48. 8 Parl. Deb. 4th series, 156, c. 172. 9 Ibid., c. 173. 10 Report and Special Report of the Select Committee on the Housing of the Working Classes Acts Amendment Bill 1906. 11 Ibid., Para. 20. 12 Ibid., Para. 8. 13 ibid., Para. 37. 14 Ibid., Para 65. 15 Ibid., Para. 88. 16 Sir Noel Thomas Kershaw, 18631930; Assistant Secretary to the Local Government Board 1899–1919. 17 Secretary's Bill Papers, Vol. 91. Report of the Select Committee on the Housing of the Working Classes Bill 1906—Memorandum by N. T. Kershaw, 18 January 1907. 18 Ibid . 19 The Times, 7 November 1906. 20 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 18361908; Financial Secretary to War Office 1871–4 and 1880–2; Secretary to the Admiralty 1882–4; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1884–5; Secretary for War 1886 and 1892–5; Prime Minister 1905–8; a little known Prime Minister. 21 The Times, 7 November 1906. 22 Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 18521928; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1905–8; Liberal Prime Minister 1908–15; Coalition Prime Minister 1915–16; Leader of the Liberal Party 1908–26. 23 Secretary's Bill Papers, Vol. 91. Asquith to John Burns, 28 February 1907. 24 Parliamentary Debates, 4th series, 188, c. 951. 25 Ibid., c. 960. 26 Ibid., c. 975. 27 Forty First Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191112, Part II, Cd. 5978, pp. XIII–XIV 28 Municipal Journal, 21 January 1911. 29 Forty First Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191112, Part II, Cd. 5978, pp. XIH–XIV. 30 Forty Third Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191314, Part II, Cd. 7610, pp. V. 31 Forty First Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191112, Part II, Cd. 5978, p. XV. 32 Forty Second Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191213, Part II, Cd. 6331, p. VI. 33 Forty Third Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191314, Part II, Cd. 7610, p. V. 34 David Lloyd George, Earl Lloyd George, 18631945; President of the Board of Trade 1905–8; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908–15; Minister of Munitions 1915–16; Secretary of War 1916; Prime Minister 1916–22; Leader of the Liberal Party 1926–31. 35 Bentley B. Gilbert, The Evolution of National Insurance in Great Britain, Michael Joseph, 1966, pp. 444–5. See also the same author's British Social Policy 1914–1939, Batsford, 1970, p. 138. 36 Municipal Journal, 3 August 1912. 37 Rt Hon. Sir Arthur Griffith Boscawen 18651946; Conservative politician; Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1895–1900; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions 1916–19 and to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 1919–21; Minister of Agriculture 1921–22; Minister of Health 1922–3. 38 This was a very active body in the years up to 1918. In 1917 it produced an important report The Health of the People which provided convincing arguments for reform of health administration. See my article ‘The Genesis of the Ministry of Health Public Administration, Vol. 45, Summer 1967, p. 154. 39 Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, 35, c. 1416. 40 Ibid., c. 1418–19. 41 Ibid., c. 1422. 42 Ibid., c. 1482. 43 Ibid., c. 1492. 44 B. S. Townroe, A Handbook of Housing, Methuen, 1924, p. 3. (Townroe was editor of the Ministry of Health periodical Housing and a Controller of the Housing Bonds Campaign in 1920). 45 The History of Housing Reform, National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organisations, 1913. 46 Ibid. , p. 28. 47 Ibid. , p. 31. 48 Ibid. , p. 69. 49 Ibid. , p. 70. 50 Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, 37, c. 2046. 51 Sir Randolph Baker, 18791959, MP for North Dorset 1910–18. 52 Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, 51, c. 2239. 53 Ibid., c. 2245. 54 Col Gerald Kyffin Taylor, 18631949; MP 1910–15; Housing Commissioner for Lancashire and Cheshire 1919–21; Chairman Liverpool Housing Committee 1907–19. 55 Rt Hon. George Roberts, 18691928; Labour MP for Norwich 1906–18; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1916–18; Minister of Labour 1917–18; Food Controller 1919–20. 56 Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, 51, c. 2276. 57 Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 18631931; MP for South Nottingham 1895–1906, 1910–29. 58 Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, 51, c. 2281. 59 Ibid., c. 2294. 60 Ibid., c. 2298. 61 Ibid., c. 2309. 62 Ibid., c. 2310. 63 Ibid., c. 2312. 64 Rt Hon. Herbert Samuel, 18701963; President of the Local Government Board 1914–15; Postmaster General 1915–16; Home Secretary 1916 and 1931–2; Leader of the Liberal Party 1931–5. 65 The Daily Chronicle, 19 April 1913. 66 The Land: The Report of the Land Enquiry Committee, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914, Vol. I, p. 92. 67 Ibid. , p. 84. 68 Ibid. , p. 85. 69 Ibid. , p. 123. 70 Ibid. , pp. 134–5. 71 The Land: The Report of the Land Enquiry Committee, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914, Vol. II, p. 3. 72 Ibid. , p. 57. 73 Ibid. , p. 113. 74 Ibid. , p. 159. 75 The Times, 10 April 1909. 76 The Land: The Report of the Land Enquiry Committee, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914, Vol. II, p. 74. 77 The Social Survey of Merseyside recorded that in the five years 1910–14 the average annual increase in private dwellings in the City was only some 600 per year, compared with an average of 1600 in the preceding five years. D. Caradog Jones (Ed.) The Social Survey of Merseyside, Hodder & Stoughton and Liverpool University Press, 1934, p. 260. Rowntree recorded that in the five years 1900–04 the average number of houses built in York was 381. Between 1905 and 1909 it was 115; in the five years 1910–14 it was 85. Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty and Progress, Longmans, 1941, p. 224. Cf. also F, E. Fremantle, The Housing of the Nation, Philip Alan & Co. Ltd., 1927, Appendix I. 78 Cf. Report of the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Industrial Population of Scotland, Rural & Urban, Cd. 8731, 1918, para. 1924. 79 J. M. Mackintosh, Trends of Opinion about the Public Health 1901–1951, OUP, 1953, p. 103. 80 The Times, 10 April 1922. 81 The Land: The Report of the Land Enquiry Committee, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914, Vol. II, p. 82. 82 Ibid. , p. 84. 83 Ministry of Reconstruction File 1/32 Inland Revenue Department to R. L. Reiss of the Ministry of Reconstruction, 2 January 1918. 84 Report of the Committee on the High Cost of Building Working Class Dwellings, Cmd 1447, 1921, para. 5. 85 Forty Third Annual Report of the Local Government Board 191314, Part II, Cd. 7610, pp. xvii–xviii. 86 Ibid., Appendix, p. 5. 87 Ministry of Reconstruction File 1/31, Summary of the Chief Proposals of the Late Government to Improve Urban Housing Conditions, (Undated). 88 Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, 18701949; Parliamentary Secretary to LGB 1905–7; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1907–8; President of Board of Education 1908–11; President of Board of Agriculture 1911–14; President of the Board of Trade 1914–16 and 1931–7; Lord President of the Council 1938–9. 89 The Times, 9 July 1914. 90 Ibid. , 25 July 1914. Citing Literature Volume6, Issue1January 1972Pages 3-18 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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