Domestic Policy

Declining trade raised revenue and money available for reforms and improvements

1930 Housing Act

Passed by Greenwood

Restored subsidies for local authorities

House building in 1924

Poor conditions

Led to the clearance of more slums than ever before

700,000 new homes

1930 Unemployment Act

Restored cuts made in Conservative provision

Increased unemployment provision and those available for 'transitional benefit'

Money paid when their payments under Insurance Act ran out

Fund was in deficit due to rising unemployment in 1931

Gregory Commission

Cuts to 30s a week for a married couple with two children

10%

1930 Traffic Act

5000 deaths led to Royal Commission in 1926

Passed by Morrison

Driving offences

Third Party insurance

Driving tests

Highway code

Speed limits

Removed until 1934

Not particularly radical

Increasing state control

1931 London Transport Bill

Trams, buses and underground under one public authority

1931 Agricultural Marketing Act

Increased controls over production

Accepted by both coalition partners

Proposed electoral reforms

End plural voting

Oxford/Cambridge representation was elitist

Lords rejected the vote change

Lords rejected a bill to raise school leaving age to 15

Land Utilisation Bill

Rejected by the Lords

Set up a special commission to buy farm lands not being productively used

Interfered with private property

Successful?

Difficult with Labour minority

Uninspiring

Increase in unemlployment

Increase in spending

Drawn away from reforming measures with were overtly socialist

Didn't pass much fundamental reforming legislation but did offer useful measures