Labour's 'New Jerusalem' - 1945

Question 1

What industrious act was enabled in 1946?

Answer 1

The 1946 Industrial Injuries Act.

Question 2

What did the 1946 Industrial Injuries Act allow?

Answer 2

It provided the whole of the workforce of Britain with compensation for illness and injuries from work.

Question 3

What benefits did the 1946 Industrial Injuries Act include?

Answer 3

Disability and Death benefits for those dependent.

Question 4

What was set up to assess cases within the Industrial Injuries Act of 1946?

Answer 4

Tribunals.

Question 5

What were the limitations of the 1946 Industrial Injuries Act?

Answer 5

It was difficult to prove workplace incidents.

Question 6

What Act was implemented in 1944?

Answer 6

The 1944 Education Act.

Question 7

What model of schooling did the Conservative act of Education adopt?

Answer 7

The Tripartite system.

Question 8

What did the Tripartite system allow bright working class students to do?

Answer 8

Bright working class children could go to Grammer Schools.

Question 9

What were the limitations of the Tripartite system?

Answer 9

Technical and secondary modern schools were neglected.

The majority of the population were sentenced to failure at age 11.

Question 10

What National Act was introduced in 1948?

Answer 10

The 1948 National Assistance Act.

Question 11

What Law did the National Assistance Act end and how?

Answer 11

The Poor Law by transferring responsibility for the destitute to the central government.

Question 12

What did the National Assistance board do?

Answer 12

Provided benefits to those who had slipped through the net and could not fend for themselves.

Question 13

Due to the National Assistance Act what were local authorities required to do?

Answer 13

Provide accommodation for the homeless.

Question 14

What were the limitations of the 1948 National Assistance Act?

Answer 14

The National Assistance board did not apply a kind of means test to applicants although it was more generous.

Question 15

How many houses did Labour build before the 1951 election and what percentage of them were council houses?

Answer 15

1.5 million new homes, of which 4/5 were council houses.

Question 16

How many pre-fabs did Labour build pre 1951 election?

Answer 16

250,000

Question 17

What did the 1946 New Towns Act do?

Answer 17

Build new new towns around London for those that were bombed out or in slums e.g Stevenage.

Question 18

What did the Town and Countryside Act do?

Answer 18

Established areas of green belt land to limit urban sprawl.

Question 19

What did Bevan do in the late 1940s to help family living conditions?

Answer 19

He increased the space allocated to each family to 900sq feet with toilets upstairs and down.

Question 20

Why did Labour not build as many houses as hoped in the late 1940s?

Answer 20

It was dealing with postwar economic recovery.

Question 21

In what year did Labour start to build 200,000 houses a year?

Answer 21

1948.

Question 22

What was held back for the middle class building wise?

Answer 22

Private house building.

Question 23

Why did squatting become popular after the war, and in what year did the government turn a blind eye to how many people squatting in what properties?

Answer 23

There was a housing shortage and plenty of destroyed and abandoned buildings to occupy.
The government turned a blind eye to 50,000 people occupying military properties in 1946.

Question 24

What year was the National Insurance Act introduced?

Answer 24

1946.

Question 25

What’s benefits, grants and allowances did the National Insurance Act allow?

Answer 25

Sickness and unemployment benefits.
Maternity and death grants.
Allowances for widows, children and orphans.

Question 26

Who did the 1946 National Insurance Act apply to?

Answer 26

All employees.

Question 27

What did the old age lesion rise from and to under the 1946 National Insurance Act?

Answer 27

To 26 shillings a week from 10.