Philip Snowden: The First Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer

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The office holder works alongside the other Treasury ministers and the permanent secretary to the Treasury. The debate was intensified by the more affluent Britain that was then emerging – the party needed support beyond its shrinking male, unionised working-class base.

In addition, the 1951 Budget made further improvements in the supplementary allowances for many war pensioners. However, only the first of these measures was realized during the first Labour Government's time in office. Reflecting pent-up demand that had long existed for medical services, the NHS treated some 8,500,000 dental patients and dispensed more than 5,000,000 pairs of spectacles during its first year of operation. Various other pieces of legislation provided for child benefit and support for people with no other source of income.In 1930 he rejected the Mosley Manifesto issued by junior Labour ministers led by Oswald Mosley proposing a programme of high spending on public works and autarkic Imperial Preference to combat unemployment. Lord Snowden died of a heart attack at his home, Eden Lodge, Tilford, Surrey, on 15 May 1937, aged 72. a week in addition to his pension,” increases in the allowance payable for a wife of a person receiving treatment allowance, unemployability allowance or injury allowance under certain conditions and “if no allowance is payable for a wife, an allowance may be granted for a dependant adult,” and a social hardship allowance for partially disabled men “who, , though not unemployable, is prevented by his pensioned disablement from resuming his former occupation or taking up one of equivalent standard. As of 2017, the first is the Autumn Budget, also known as Budget Day which forecasts government spending in the next financial year and also announces new financial measures.

The new party leader (from 1935) Clement Attlee, and later chancellor of the exchequer Hugh Dalton (in office from July 1945 to November 1947), combined practical economic re-thinking with a focus on building Labour’s governing experience through serving in the wartime coalition.A strong chain of regional offices was set up within its planning ministry to provide a strong lead in regional development policies. Other notable figures in the government included: Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons, who replaced Bevin as Foreign Secretary in March 1951; Sir Stafford Cripps was initially President of the Board of Trade but replaced Dalton as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1947; Hugh Gaitskell held several minor posts before replacing Cripps as Chancellor in 1950; Nye Bevan was Minister of Health; Arthur Greenwood was Lord Privy Seal and Paymaster General while future Prime Minister Harold Wilson became the youngest member of the cabinet in the 20th century (at the age of 31) when he was made President of the Board of Trade in 1947. The Attlee Government also extended the powers of local authorities to requisition houses and parts of houses, and made the acquisition of land less difficult than before.