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James Ramsay MacDonald (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman [1] and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.
The main achievement of the government was the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 (the Wheatley Housing Act), which MacDonald dubbed 'our most important legislative item'. [3] This measure went some way towards rectifying the problem of the housing shortage, caused by the disruption of the building trade during the First World War and the ...
Wheatley remained a widely respected political figure and when MacDonald became Prime Minister in January 1924, he appointed Wheatley as his Minister of Health. Wheatley is best remembered for his Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 , which saw a massive expansion in affordable municipal housing for the working class.
An Act to make further provision with respect to the cost of medical benefit and to the expenses of the administration of benefits under the Acts relating to national health insurance, and to amend section twenty-nine of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, and for purposes connected therewith.
Among the new members of parliament is 30-year-old future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the new Conservative MP for Stockton-on-Tees (born in Chelsea to a British father and an American mother). [12] 2 November – The Sunday Express becomes the first newspaper to publish a crossword. [2] 22 November – Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster ...
The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries: the Law ministry (from 1922 to 1923) and then the first Baldwin ministry (from 1923 onwards). The government was led by Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, appointed respectively as Prime Minister by King George V.
The second MacDonald ministry was formed by Ramsay MacDonald on his reappointment as prime minister of the United Kingdom by King George V on 5 June 1929. It was the second time the Labour Party had formed a government; the first MacDonald ministry held office in 1924.
The Education (Scotland) Act 1908 enforced medical inspection, free books and travel, free meals and clothing grants, and some bursaries. [ 20 ] Medical inspections began in 1907 but many poor families could not afford the cost of the doctors fees to get treated; it was not until 1912 that medical treatment was provided.