Increased the electorate to include men over 21 and women over 30 – no of voters almost tripled because of this
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1918 Education Act
School leaving age raised to 14 and planned to expand tertiary education.
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1920 Emergency Powers Act
Gave the Sovereign power, in certain circumstances, to declare a state of emergency by proclamation. The Act also authorised emergency regulations to be issued by Order in Council
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1920 Unemployment Insurance Act
Set up the dole system providing 15 weeks of unemployment benefits to 11 million workers - practically the entire civilian working population except domestic service, farm workers, railway workers, and civil servants. Funded by weekly contributions
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1921 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act
An Act to amend the law with respect to the capacity of women to hold certain offices.
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1923 Matrimonial Clauses Bill
Adultery = sole ground for divorce
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1924 Housing Act
increased government subsidies to be paid to local authorities to build housing for rent for low paid workers from £6 to £9. It also extended the time over which the subsidy was paid from 20 to 40 years. Around 508,000 houses were built under it
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1925 Special Restrictions Act (Coloured Alien Seaman Act)
'coloured' seamen who had no documentary proof of their status as British must register as 'aliens' in Britain 'whether or not they have been in the United Kingdom for more than two months'. Police were to apprehend 'coloured' men from ships
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1926 Electricity Act
Created Central Electricity Board and the National Grid
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1927 Trade Disputes Act
Passed in response to the General Strike of 1926. It declared unlawful secondary action and any strike whose purpose was to coerce the government of the day directly or indirectly.
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1928 Representation of the People Act
expanded on the Representation of the People Act 1918 which had given some women the vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time after World War I. The 1928 Act widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men. It gave the vote to
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1929 Local Government Act
The Act abolished the system of Poor Law Unions in England and Wales and their boards of guardians, transferring their powers to local authorities. It also gave county councils increased powers over highways and made provisions for the restructuring
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1930 Coal Mines Act
introduced a system of quotas in the coal industry. It was a major achievement of the Labour Party, which revoked the eight-hour day that had been enacted in 1926, replacing it with 7 1/2 hours. Mine owners were allowed to fix quotas and minimum pric
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1932 Import Duties Act
The Act introduced a general tariff of 10% on most imports, though some foodstuffs, raw materials, and some imports from the British Empire were exempted.
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1934 Special Areas Act
Gave aid to the areas of Britain which had the highest unemployment rates in the 1930s. Areas which benefited included South Wales, Tyneside, Cumberland and southern Scotland; but not Lancashire
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1934 Unemployment Act
reduced the age of entering the National Insurance scheme to 14 and made the claiming age 16 years. It also separated benefits earned by paying National Insurance and those purely based on need. To do this it established: the Unemployment Insurance S
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1942 Beveridge Report
Influential in the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom. It was drafted by the Liberal economist William Beveridge, who proposed widespread reforms to the system of social welfare to address what he identified as five "Giant Evils" in
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1944 Butler Education Act
Introduced the tripartite system of secondary schools.
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1945 Family Allowance Act
the first law to provide child benefit in the United Kingdom.
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1946 National Health Service Act
Free healthcare for all including prescriptions, dentistry etc
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1946 National Insurance Act
established a comprehensive system of social security throughout the United Kingdom. All persons of working age had to pay a weekly contribution and in return were entitled to a wide range of benefits, including Guardian’s (or Orphans) Allowances, De
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1946 New Towns Act
allowed the government to designate areas as new towns, and passing development control functions to a Development Corporation. Several new towns were created in the years following its passing.
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1948 National Assistance Act
It formally abolished the Poor Law system that had existed since the reign of Elizabeth I,[1] and established a social safety net for those who did not pay National insurance contributions (such as the homeless, the physically handicapped, and unmarr
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1965 Race Relations Act
Outlawed discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origins
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1967 Sexual Offences Act
It decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men, both of whom had to have attained the age of 21. The Act applied only to England and Wales and did not cover the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces.
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1968 Race Relations Act
Made it illegal to refuse housing, employment, or public services to a person on the grounds of colour, race, ethnic or national origins. It also created the Community Relations Commission to promote 'harmonious community relations'
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1970 Equal Pay Act
The goal was to stabilize industrial relations by forcing concentration of bargaining power and responsibility in the formal union leadership, using the courts. The act was intensely opposed by unions, and helped undermine the government of Edward He
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1975 Sex Discrimination Act
protected men and women from discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status.
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1918 Education Act
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School leaving age raised to 14 and planned to expand tertiary education.
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