BRITISH ECONOMIC COUNCIL
SCOPE AND FUNCTIONS (British Official Wireless,) Rugby, January 23. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government had decided to set up at once an Economic Advisory Council, under his own chairmanship. It had decided that the scope and functions of that body should absolve the existing Committee- on Civil Research, and he hoped to secure for the council the whole-time services of two experienced economists. A White Paper setting out the scope and functions of the new council will be issued shortly. One of the two economists to be appointed, who will, it is presumed, constitute the secretariat for the council, is Mr. Hubert Henderson, late editor of the Liberal journal “Nation,” and formerly lecturer in economics at Cambridge. The proposal to set up such a council was advocated by Mr. MacDonald when he flrst took office in 1924, and in an official statement of Labour news Issued since then the establishment of this “EconomicGeneral Staff” was promised, An organisation on somewhat similar lines is part of the industrial policy of the Liberal Party.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 104, 27 January 1930, Page 11
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