ABSTRACT
On 10th June 1941 Mr. Arthur Greenwood, as Minister without Portfolio, announced in the House of Commons that he had arranged with all the Departments concerned for a comprehensive survey of existing schemes of social insurance which would be considered in due course by the Committee on Reconstruction Problems, of which he was Chairman. On 20th November 1942 a Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services arising out of the work of this Committee was signed by author and presented to Sir William Jowitt, who, as Paymaster-General, had succeeded Mr. Arthur Greenwood as Minister concerned with Reconstruction Problems. The only large difference of permanent structure between what was proposed in the Beveridge Report and what has now been enacted relates to industrial injuries, that is to say accidents occurring or diseases contracted in the course of employment. Next to the treatment of industrial injuries, the most important difference between the Report and the Acts relates to pensions in old age.
