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Post-War Recoinstruction Britain MINISTRY OF INFORMATION POST-WAR RECOINSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN N.B.—These notes are not intended for textual reproduction but simply for use •as reference material PASSED BY THE BRITISH CENSOR. QUOTE NO. Q 2977 NOTE Attention should be paid to the limitations% placed upon the scope oí this review in the introductory note, p. 5. Supplementary iníormation will be issued from time to time, but this memorándum will not be completely revised for some months. Reference División, 30th June, 1943. INDEX Page Page Adult Education ... 54-60 Burt Committee (See Housing, Agricultural Economics Re- Committees on Post-war search Institute 47 Problems of) Agricultural Education, Re- port on ..'. 25-6 Civil Aviation (See Aviation, Agricultural Improvement Civil) Council 47 Civil Service, Reform of ...53-4 Agricultural Machinery De- . Children's Allowances 11, 40, 42-3, velopment Board 47 55, 65 Agricultural Research Council Coal Industry, Problems of 59, 64, 47, 65 73, 74, 78 Agriculture, Post-War Prob- Colonial Developments, Rela- lems, Study oí 8, 9, 14, 30, 35-6, - tion to Domestic Reconstruc- 45-9, 83-4 tion .:. 8 Air Training Corps Educa- Compensation and Betterment, tional Advisory Committee 58 Reports of Expert Com- Apprenticeship, Scheme for mittee on 15, 16, 33-5, 36-9, 47, Further ... 51 66, 67 Armed Forces, Further Educa- Concentration of Industry, , Future of Undertakings tion Training Scheme ...26-7 afiected by 77-8 Aviation, Civil 8, 51-3, 84-5 Cotton Industry, Training for 59 Currency, International ... 75 Barlow Report (See Indus- trial Population, Distri- Demobilisation, Problems of bution of, Report of Royal (See also Armed Forces) 10, 11, Gommission) ... 33-6, 67 49-51, 75, 85 Beveridge Report (See Social Demobilised Persons, Further Insurance and Allied Ser- Apprenticeship ... ... 51 vices, Report of Sir Wm. Demobilised Persons, Further Beveridge) Education and Training ...26-7 Birth Rate, Problem of ... 9 Dental Service Committee ... 43 Brick Industry, Report of Disabled Persons, 'Rehabilita- Committee 71 ción and Resettlement of 32-3, 50 Building and Civil Engineering • Industry Advisory Council 70 Economic Problems 8, 10, 46, 75, Building Development, Control 77-80, 92-3 of 69-72 Education, Adult ... ) ...54-8 Building, Directorate of Post- Education, Technical and Vo- War :. 68, 70 cational 25-8, 49-51, 54-60, 61; Building Industry, Training Educational Problems, Com- .'.¿-¿H for ... 27-8 mitteesón ... ... 56-9,:85^S| Pagé Page Educational Reform, Problem Hospitals Service, Future of 32-3, of ... 8, 9, 54-60, 83, 85-7 44, 01-3, 74 Electoral Problems ... 9, 28-9 Housing, Post-War Problems Electricity 72-3, 91 of ... 28, 66-8, §3, 88-89 Employment (See also In- Housing, Committees on Post- dustry and Trade) 7-10, 21, War Problems of 8 28, 66-8, 75 22, 27, 28, 40-44, 50-53, 75, Hydro-Electric Development, 77-80, 83, 84, 92-3 Scotland 30-31, 74 Export Groups, Central Com- Industrial Population, Dis- mittee of 78 tribution of, Report of Royal Export Trade, Committees, Commission... ... 33-6, 67 Post-War 78-9 Industry, Post-War Problems Export Trade, Reinstatement of (See also Civil Aviation, of- ... 7-10, 21-23, 75-80 Trade, Employment, etc.) Faetones, War, Future oí 24, 50-51, 10, 14, 20-24, 33-5, 39, 40, 50, 52, 78, 81 60, 74-80, 91-3 Faetones Welíare Board ... 64 Industry, Location of ... 33-6, 70, Farming, Problems of (See 72, 78 Agriculture) Industry, Scottish Council on 74, 75 Farm Survey ... 48 Inflation, Ávoidance of 20, 21, 23 Financial Problems in Post- International Problems, Rela- War Period 7-10, 20-24, 37-9, tion to Domestic Recon- 40, 46, 75-6, 80 struction 5, 7-10, 17, 19, 21, 46, Fisheries ... ... ... 60 52-3, 72, 75-80, 84, 92 Fleming Committee (See Edu- Juvenile Employment, London cational Problems, Com- Región Advisory Council mittees on) Report 59 Foreign Affairs, Relation to Land, Control and, Develop- Donjestic Reconstruction ment of 15, 16,' 17, 29-31, '33-9, 17-18, 23 48-9, 66, 90-1 Forest Policy, Post-War Re- Land Registration Committee 39 port on 29-30 Land Utilisation in Rural " Four Years Plan " ... 7-10, 46, Areas, Report of Committee 55-6, 79 15, 35-9, 47, 66, 67 Further Education and Train- Land Utilisation in Rural ing Scheme ... ... ... 51 Areas, Scotland, Report of Further Apprenticeship Train- Committee 39, 75 ing Scheme ... ... ... 51 Land Utilisation, Regional Ofñcers 49 Health, Problems of 54-5, 60-65, Liabilities (Wartime Adjust- 66/88 ment) Act, 1941 80 Health, Industrial ... 61, 64-5 Local Government ... 89-90 Health Service, National, De- London, Replanning of ... 71 velopment of 9,11,31,40, 43-44, 60-5 Machinery for the Study of Herring Industry, Committee Reconstruction ... 11-18, 37 60, 74 Machinery for the Special Con- Hill Sheep Farming, Commit- sideration of the Beveridge tee 49, 74 Plan 11, 12, 13, 42 2 -Page Page Medical Advisory Committee 44, 61 Scottish Problems 15, 30-31, 39, Medical Advisory Committee, 55, 56-7, 61, 63, 66-8, 73-5 Scotland 44, 61, 75 Scott Report (See Land Medical Schools Committee ... 61 Utilisation in Rural Areas, Merseyside Dock Access Scheme 72 Report of Committee) 35-9 Midwives' Salaries ... ... 31 Security, International 7-10, 40 Mining Industry, Training for 59 Security, National, Conditions Monetary Policy ... 23, 46 Governing ... ... ... 8 Security, Social (See Social National Health Service 9, 11, 31, Insurance and Allied 40, 43-4, 60 Services) 8, 9, 23, 31, 39-44, Nurses Bill 32 60-65, 83, 88, 92 Nurses' Salaries Committee Re- Shipping Policy, Post-War 52, 72, 79, 85, 87, 92 port ... ... ... ... 31 Small Traders, Protection and Nurses' Salaries Committee, Scotland, Report 31-2 Rehabilitation of ... 77, 80 Nurses (Scotland) Bill ... 32 Social Insurance and Allied Nutritional Policy 42-3, 46, 47, 65 Services, Report of Sir Wm. Beveridge 8, 9, 23, 31, 39-44, 60-65, 83, 88, 92 Physical Reconstruction Pro- blems of 9, 14-17, 33-9, 49, 69-72, 90-91 Taxation Problems ...23-24, 75-6 Planning Authority, Central Tomlinson Report (See Re- 14, 15, 16, 35-9 habilitation and Resettle- Planning, Nature of Post-War ment of Disabled Persons, 16, 20 Report of Committee) Population, Distribution of In- Town and Country Planning, dustrial, Report of Royal EStablishment of Ministry 15-16, Commission ... 33-4, 35-6, 67 37-8 Post-War Conditions, Financial Trade and Industry, 8, 10, 21-3, Background ... 21-24 31, 58-9, 75-8, 92-3 Post-War Conditions, General Transition Period Immediately Picture 20-23 Following War 9, 20-24, 28, 30, Price Levels, Stabilisation of 9, 20, 45, 50, 52, 65, 71, 75-6, 92-3 21, 23 Transport 14, 51-3, 71-3 Public Utilities ... 72-3, 91 Unemployment, Problems of 9, Railways ... ... ...72—3 21, 40-44 Rationing and Control ... 20 Uthwatt Report (See Com- Regional Planning Officers 16, 49 pensation and Betterment, Registration of Title to Land Reports of Expert Com- Committee ... ... ... 39 mittee) Rehabilitation and Resettle- ment of Disabled Persons Wales, Special Problems of 30, 55, Committee 26, 32-3 57, 61, 80-81 Retail Trade, Future of 79-80 Roads in Built-Up Areas, Re- Youth Service, Future of 55-57, planning of 71 59-60, 75 3 la—18995 POST-WAR RECONSTRUGTION IN BRITAIN SURVEY JANUARY, 1941—JUNE, 1943 Introductory Note This memorándum is no more than an attempt to summarise, for general reference purposes, information published during the periqd January, 1941 to June, 1943, on the study oí British post-war problems in the domestic field and to record the action which has already been possible. This cannotbe an exhaustive survey, both from the extent of the subject and because it records progress in a study which is only part completed and whicH will end at a time and in conditions which are still indeterminate. Many decisions must await events which cannot yet be foreseen, namely the circumstances in which this war will end. For the same reason, some provisional decisions reached may be modiñed or widened in scope. Further, these notes touch only very incidentally on international problems, though internal reconstruction in Britain must largely be conditioned by the success which attends their solution. On the other hand, incomplete as this survey must be, it will serve to show that, even during the sternest war which any British Government has been called upon to óonduct, much earnest thought has been devoted to the object of fitting Britain to meet her duties and responsibilities after victory. These limitations must be borne in mind in using this memorándum. Ás stated abo ve, it is prepared for reference and no attempt, therefore, has been made to epitomize Reports, White Papers, etc., which are printed and easily available. This document includes the information given in earlier Reference Notes on the subject of Britain and Post-War Reconstruction, oníitting matter now out of date. A list of the documents mentioned in these notes is appended to the memorándum. In Parts I-V, unless otherwise stated, the source of the information is the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). So far as possible, even where direct quotation is not acknowledged, the text of these notes follows the words used in the original sources. For purposes of convenience, as the present Minister without Portfolio discharged his responsibilities for some months in the office of Paymaster- General, the practice has been followed of referring to him by ñame—Sir William Jowitt, and, similarly, to his predecessor as Minister without portfolio as Mr. Arthur Greenwood. (In cases of quotation this change is noted by the use of brackets.) s TABLE OF CONTENTS Index Page Part I.
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