SOCIAL SERVICES COSTS
CUT NOT INTENDED BRITAIN’S PROGRAM ME (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 1. During the debate in the House of Commons to-day on the adjournment motion, the Leader of the Opposition, Major C. R. Attlee, referred to a report that instructions had been sent by the Treasury to- all departments dealing with social services to cut expenditure. The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain immediately gave a categorical denial of this report. A correction of the misunderstanding in regard to a recent speech by himself, which suggested a cut in social services was intended, was issued last night by the Minister of Health, Mr. W. E. Elliot, he said. His argument was that the inroads upon social services would injure the very things the Government was fighting to preserve, and it was to prevent the possibility of such inroads that he urged support of the policy of appeasement. At question time, Mr. Elliot denied that the Government was contemplating a cut in social services and added that so far from thinking of cutting social services, the Government intended to maintain and, if possible, to expand them.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 7
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