Report on the Beveridge proposals
1943-01-19 1943 1940s 20 pages 4. to build up again our export trade. The vital necessity for doing this is clear in view of the loss of many of our investments which enabled us in the past to draw a large income from overseas as the result of our past exertions and savings. In order to pay for the...
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4. to build up again our export trade. The vital necessity for doing this is clear in view of the loss of many of our investments which enabled us in the past to draw a large income from overseas as the result of our past exertions and savings. In order to pay for the import of food and raw materials, it will be necessary not only to restore our pre-war level of exports but greatly to increase them, and in all our discussions we have had in mind the undesirability of placing burdens upon our industry which would prevent us from competing effectively in the world's markets. There are some who do not think the additional burdens envisaged in the Report will make much difference to the costs of their particular product, but they may have overlooked the cumulative burden which will arise from the fact that similar contributions will have been drawn from many of the raw materials which they use. The burdens will be more heavily felt by those industries whose products contain a large element of labour and whose raw materials are the finished products of other industries (e.g., coal, iron, steel, etc.). Many of our principal exports come within this category. The inescapable conclusion therefore, is that a high level of productive employment must be our determined aim after the war, and that unless it is secured we cannot possibly maintain a high standard of living. Children's Allowances. 7. We will now deal with Assumptions (A) and (B). The Committee by a majority is in favour of a scheme of children's allowances, subject to further consideration of the financial problem, and for many reasons we are inclined to favour allowances for all children, including the first, but at a lower level than that proposed by Sir William Beveridge. One of the chief reasons in favour of including the first child is that if allowances for all children are paid, whether or not the parent is in employment, the
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