“…A simultaneous decline in the average size of the dependent families of workers has also had something to do with it, but this is not a matter for congratulation. The economic function of the social services has been to redistribute a further portion of our national wealth — about 10 per cent. of it — in the form, not of wages, but of social services in money or in kind. …”

“…No one can doubt that this all-in unification under a Ministry of Social Security would be simpler, more efficient, and, in the long run, more economical to the State. All payments such as children's allowances, retirement pensions, and death benefits would be made through the local Security Offices. …”

“…The continuation and extension of the War Savings habit after the war to practically the whole community of wage-earners had become a vital feature of British economic policy. It was called "Saving for Security," and was the Popular Capitalism of the new age. …”