HC Deb 27 January 1943 vol 386 c498
50. Captain Cunningham-Reid

asked the Prime Minister whether he will form a special Ministry to plan and direct social security which will co-ordinate the existing Departments concerned with the same subject?

Mr. Attlee

The hon. and gallant Member's suggestion is, I think, substantially the same as the proposal for a Ministry of Social Security in the Report of Sir William Beveridge. This proposal is at present under review as part of the general examination of that Report which the Government have undertaken.

Captain Cunningham-Reid

Would not the Government be immeasurably strengthened if Sir William Beveridge were to join them?

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