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58 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1943)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry58 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume L VIII ] March 1943 [ Number I POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY THE BEVERIDGE REPORT HE Beveridge report,' which in a few months has become one of the most widely read and quoted documents of recent years, was conceived on June 1o, 1941. On that date Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, announced to the House of Commons that he had arranged for a survey of social insurance and allied services to be considered, when com- pleted, by the Committee on Reconstruction Problems of which he was then chairman. The survey was entrusted to an inter- departmental committee with Sir William Beveridge as its chairman. The committee's terms of reference were to undertake, with special reference to the inter-relation of the schemes, a survey of existing national schemes of social insur- ance and allied services, including workmen's compensation, and to make recommendations. On January 27, 1942, the committee was authorized to consider death benefits with any other risks at present not covered by the English social insur- ance system. In a letter of the same date Mr. Greenwood wrote to Sir William: In view of the issues of high policy which will arise, we think that the departmental representatives should ... be regarded as your advisers ... on the various tech- nical and administrative matters with which they are severally concerned. This means that the Report .. . will be your own report; it will be signed by you alone.. . . This report Beveridge submitted to Sir William Jowitt, Greenwood's suc- cessors, on November 2o, 1942. 1Social Insurance and Allied Services, Report by Sir William Beveridge. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1942. 299 pp. $1.oo.

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