Philip Snowden: The First Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer

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The most notable of the few female members of the government was Ellen Wilkinson, who was Minister of Education until her early death in 1947. Under the National Assistance Act 1948, local authorities had a duty "to provide emergency temporary accommodation for families which become homeless through no fault of their own".

Restrictions introduced by the previous Coalition government on state grants to the principal public health grant earning services (including maternity and child welfare, tuberculosis, and venereal disease) were removed.The provisions under which Poor Law Relief was accorded to able-bodied unemployed and their dependents were extended for a further year, and were improved to permit of parish councils making grants in aid of emigration. He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. Now, though, disillusioned by cases of anti-Semitism in the party and what they see as Corbyn’s inert leadership; as well as a lack of enthusiasm for Europe; the party’s centre-left tradition is beginning to construct a response. Admittedly, economic growth rates were less spectacular than hoped for under the eventually abandoned National Plan.

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 1950 amended the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 to bring prostitutes within the law and safeguard them from abduction and abuse. He was the principal opponent to any radical economic policy to tackle the Great Depression, and blocked proposals to introduce protectionist tariffs. Wheatley was able to provide public housing to council tenants, as against the previous government's commitment to privatisation. These included the provision of allowances for the wife and children for injured persons receiving injury allowance or disablement pension, amendments to the provisions for an allowance to a pensioner deemed unemployable by reason of his pensioned disablement “to secure that he receives in the aggregate by way of unemployability allowance and any social service benefits for which he is eligible at least 20s. The restrictions imposed by the previous government on spending by the Poplar Board of Guardians were removed, [4] while the National Health Insurance (Cost of Medical Benefit) Bill revised the capitation fee paid to doctors.The Attlee government nationalised about 20% of the economy, including coal, railways, road transport, the Bank of England, civil aviation, electricity and gas, and steel. Among the most important pieces of legislation was the National Insurance Act 1946, in which people in work paid a flat rate of national insurance.

Snowden later wrote in his autobiography: "I was brought up in this Radical atmosphere, and it was then that I imbibed the political and social principles which I have held fundamentally ever since". Snowden unsuccessfully contested the Wakefield constituency in West Yorkshire in a by-election in March 1902, where he received 40 percent of the votes. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Germany had failed to maintain reparation payments in the years following the end of the Great War, and France, in response, occupied Germany's industrial heartland, the Ruhr. Faced in 1931 with a large budget deficit, the cabinet in Labour’s second minority government split over proposed spending cuts, and MacDonald was persuaded, by King George V and other leading, non-Labour politicians, to stay on as prime minister of a national government.The Scottish Board of Health also withdrew the restrictions imposed under the previous Conservative government upon the expenditure to be incurred in the public health services, and consequently there were developments affecting port sanitation, Tuberculosis, the welfare of the blind, and maternity and child welfare. Macdonald first held talks with both the Belgians and French at Chequers and then hosted an Inter-Allied conference in London in July 1924. To alleviate unemployment and distress caused in the Outer Hebrides due to a depression in the fishing industry and the failure of crops, the Board inaugurated relief work schemes which had for their object the resurfacing of the roads in the regions affected. However, Wilson’s unifying dexterity in appealing both to his right and left wings, had postponed as much as resolved Labour’s internal contradictions, and once he finally retired as prime minister in 1976, the party spent much of the next two decades forced to confront them more directly, largely in Opposition. It is now known that the Zinoviev letter was a fake, as documents released by the Public Record Office in 1998 revealed the letter to have been a forgery, [4] but it scarcely helped Labour during their election campaign.

During his seven years as a clerk, he studied and then passed the civil service entry examination; in 1886, he was appointed to a junior position at the Excise Office in Liverpool. The earliest surviving records which are the results of the exchequer's audit, date from 1129 to 1130 under King Henry I and show continuity from previous years. Two other officials are given the title of a secretary to the Treasury, although neither is a government minister in the Treasury: the parliamentary secretary to the Treasury is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons; the permanent secretary to the Treasury is not a minister but the senior civil servant in the Treasury. In addition, allowances payable while a pensioner underwent inpatient treatment “are normally no longer subject to a deduction in respect of decreased home expenditure. Its left, reinforced by then-powerful trade unions and the charismatic figure of Tony Benn, increasingly asserted its agenda of large-scale public ownership; enhanced worker and trade union control in industrial decision-making; industrial democracy and withdrawal from that ‘capitalist club’, the European Community.

Attlee's Health Minister, Aneurin Bevan, fought hard against the general disapproval of the medical establishment, including the British Medical Association, by creating the National Health Service in 1948. However, only the first of these measures was realized during the first Labour Government's time in office.