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:IOI§“I95f it: IS , llj , sill . WM lloZO-'Qltebo . ‘SCS.SHS,. /£><+ SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY FIFTH SERIES VOLUME 5 The Scottish Office The Scottish Office Depression and Reconstruction 1919-1959 edited by Ian Levitt ★ ★ EDINBURGH printed for the Scottish History Society by PILLANS & WILSON LTD., EDINBURGH 1992 Scottish History Society 1992 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 906245 14 1 Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix INTRODUCTION 1 The nature of government 6 Employment and industrial development 25 Housing and urban development 40 Health and welfare 55 Conclusion 65 CHAPTER ONE: THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT 74 The Scottish Secretary and creating a Board of Health, 1918-19 74 Ministerial salaries and the status of the Scottish Secretary, 1921 75 The Scottish Office: appointing a third Assistant Secretary, 1921-2 77 Amending the Board of Health, 1922-3 80 Raising the status of the Scottish Secretary, 1923-6 83 Creating a Department of Health, 1924-8 84 A scheme of administrative devolution for the Scottish Departments, 1932 86 Scottish sentiment, the Special Areas Commissioner and economic development, 1934 89 Neville Chamberlain and a Scottish Development Board, 1935 91 Appointing a Committee of Enquiry into Scottish administration, 1935 94 A new office for the Secretary of State for Scotland, 1936 95 Concentrating Scottish administration, 1938 98 The machinery of government in Scodand, 1943 100 Scottish ministerial arrangements,
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