caa a22 4500 386395721 CHVBK 20180307112138.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400001835 doi S0047279400001835 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400001835 Lowe Rodney Resignation at the Treasury: the Social Services Committee and the Failure to Reform the Welfare State, 1955-57 [Elektronische Daten] [Rodney Lowe] Between 1955-7 welfare expenditure in Britain came under serious attack. The main protagonist was the Treasury and its chosen implement a five-year review of the social services, to be presided over by a ministerial Social Services Committee. The attack rebounded, for the Committee provided the opportunity for the consolidation of the defence of welfare expenditure and for a frontal attack on Treasury assumptions. This neglected episode in Conservative government social policy places in historical context the early defeat of monetarism (with Thorneycroft's resignation in 1958) and provides the background to the establishment of the Plowden Committee and of the Public Expenditure Survey Committee. It also raises questions about the degree of post-war consensus and the failure to make the constructive development of the welfare state an objective of ‘conviction' politics. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 505-526 0047-2794 18:4<505 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001835 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001835 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lowe Rodney NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 505-526 0047-2794 18:4<505 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge