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Treasury Control and Labour Intelligence in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Roger Davidson
Roger Davidson
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University of Edinburgh
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The Historical Journal , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 719 - 726
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7 P.R.O., T 1/11170/25785, memo. by G. Barstow, 5 Nov. 1907.

8 P.R.O., T 1/11791/13516, Treasury minute, 24 March 1915.

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12 P.R.O., T 1/8369 B/18036, minute by Sir Reginald Welby, 3 March 1887.

13 P.R.O., BT 14/IND 20472, Treasury to Board of Trade, 28 April and 11 June 1886.

14 P.R.O., T1/8243 B/11800, minute by Welby, 14 April 1886.

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16 Ibid. p. 59. For details of the appropriation of American State Bureaus, see P.P. 1894 (C.7421) XXXV, 228.

17 P.R.O., T 1/8743 A/10410, memo. by Mowatt, 30 Dec. 1892.

18 See, e.g., P.R.O., T 1/8857 C/13679.

19 P.R.O., T 1/9891 A/18946.

20 See, e.g., P.R.O., T 1/9109B/18813.

21 P.R.O., T 1/9636A/1448, minute by F. Mowatt, 3 Jan. 1901; LAB2/1555/L 1099/1903, minute by H. Llewellyn Smith, 18 July 1903.

22 P.R.O., LAB 41/151, minute by F. H. MacLeod, 6 Dec. 1906.

23 P.R.O., T 1/18410/10518A, Treasury to Board of Trade, 5 Sept. 1905.

24 P.R.O., T 1/10241B/2068; T 1/10524A/19025.

25 P.R.O., T 1/10562/22706; LAB 41/213, G. H. Wood to F. H. MacLeod, 25 May 1909.

26 P.R.O., T 1/10054B/21516, Llewellyn Smith to Mowatt, 13 June 1903. For the inability of the Board of Trade to cope with the statistical demands of the Tariff Reform controversy, see also Walter Layton papers, unpublished autobiography, pp. 13a, 15.

27 P.R.O., T 1/10241B/2068, minute by T. L. Heath, 9 Feb. 1905.

28 P.R.O., T 1/31/pp. 583–4; T 1/10054B/21516; T 1/10659A/13618.

29 Lloyd George papers, B/1/1/10, Llewellyn Smith to Lloyd George, 24 Dec. 1907; S.C. on post office servants (wages and conditions of employment), mins. of ev., PP 1906 (308) XII. pt.1, Q.7237; 1913; (268) XII, Q.27274.

30 Hansard, 4th Series, 177, Col. 164, 27 June 1907. Lloyd George: ‘The Statistical Department of the Board of Trade was the Intelligence Department of the commerce and industry of the country … and should be as efficient as the Intelligence Department in War’; P.R.O., T 1/10562/22706, minute by Sir George Murray, 31 Dec. 1906.

31 P.R.O., BT 13/134, Churchill to Llewellyn Smith, 8 April 1909; Passfield papers, Beatrice Webb diary, 24 March 1908.

32 P.R.O., LAB 41/213, G. H. Wood to F. H. MacLeod, 11 June 1909.

33 P.R.O., T 1/11700/26594, minute by R. G. Hawtrey, 3 March 1909; T 9/41, Treasury to Board of Trade, 22 Feb. 1912.

34 P.R.O., LAB 41/213, G. H. Wood to F. H. MacLeod, 11 April 1912.

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36 P.R.O., T 1/11646/13667, Llewellyn Smith to Sydney Buxton, 24 March 1913. Equally symptomatic of the Treasury's lack of appreciation of the data needs of welfare administration was its refusal to sanction the appointment of a permanent actuarial adviser to the Board to assess the viability of existing and projected schemes of insurance. See P.K.O., BT 13/E37900; T 1/11481/22621.

37 Wright, , ‘Treasury Control 1854–1914’, p. 222Google Scholar.