Chapter 2

Question 1

When was Pitt PM?

Answer 1

1783

Question 2

What happened in 1784?

Answer 2

General Election: waited until there was 1 difference between whigs and tories and then called it to secure PM

Question 3

How many budgets did Pitt get through?

Answer 3

25, more than anyone in 200 years

Question 4

What was the debt in 1783?

Answer 4

£240 million

Question 5

How did Pitt solve the debt?

Answer 5

Tightly managed sinking fund, put in 1 million every year from taxes- cut it by 10 million

Question 6

How did Pitt solve the outdated Tarrif system?

Answer 6

1787- umberella of consolidation act:

Custom taxes were alagamated

Question 7

How did he solve the Low Government Revenue?

Answer 7

Indirect taxes created, added £4 million

Question 8

When was the trade treaty with France?

Answer 8

1786?

Question 9

How was smuggling solved?

Answer 9

The hovering act

Question 10

What did he do about no accounting checks?

Answer 10

Audit offices created to oversee public spending

Question 11

What happened to free post?

Answer 11

It was abolished

Question 12

Sinecure offices?

Answer 12

Abolished 100s by letting them lapse. Clerkship of Peur (£3000 a year) shutdown after Pitt was offered it

Question 13

Pitt’s successors: who was 1st?

Answer 13

Henry addington

Question 14

Pitt successors: 2nd?

Answer 14

Lord Grenville

Question 15

3? A Whig in a Tory government

Answer 15

Duke of Portland

Question 16

4?

Answer 16

Spencer Perceval