Social Policy 1830-1914 by Eric J Evans

Author:Eric J Evans [Evans, Eric J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Europe, Great Britain, Modern, 19th Century, 20th Century, Social History, Political Science, Public Policy, Social Policy
ISBN: 9781315519999
Google: rVQPDQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-13T16:18:30+00:00

10c Local government rationalized

Hansard 3rd series, vol. cccxxiii, cols 1642-46, 19 March 1888.

C.T. Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board:

There is a real and substantial demand for a system of decentralization by which many of the duties which are now performed by Central Departments, and in some cases by Parliament, might be entrusted to County Authorities, if they were constituted in a manner which should adequately represent the public .... It is quite certain that if we were to set up a Representative Body such as is proposed for county affairs it would be impossible for us to shut our eyes to the confusion of areas within the counties, and to the number of different authorities. We propose, therefore, not only to deal with the powers and composition of the Central Governing Body in the county, but also with the powers and composition of the Local Bodies within the area .... the desire that further powers than those which are possessed by the County Authorities should be given to a Central Body in the county is much more prevalent in the country generally than the desire for a mere change in the Governing Body; and therefore it may be convenient if I, at the outset, ask the House to consider the question of the powers which we shall propose should be given to the Central County Council when it is established .... We propose ... to transfer to the new Bodies all the existing administrative powers of the Justices in respect of County Rates and financial business, County Buildings, County Bridges, the provision and management of the County Lunatic Asylums, the establishment and maintenance of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, the granting of Licences for Music and Dancing, the granting of Licences for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors ... the division of the county into Polling Districts for Parliamentary Elections, the cost of the Registration of Voters, the executing the Acts relating to Explosives, the execution of the Acts relating to the Contagious Diseases of Animals, the Adulteration of Food and Drugs, Weights and Measures, and various other minor matters with which I will not trouble the House. We also propose to entrust to the County Councils certain duties with reference to Main Roads in the counties .... We propose ... that the raising and management of the police should be in the hands of a joint committee of the County Council and of Quarter Sessions.

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