Attlee, Clement

In 1948, when the NHS was established by the then Minister of Health, Aneurin Bevan, during the Labour Government of Clement Attlee, all prescriptions were supplied free of charge. A charge of Is Od ( 0.05) per prescription, irrespective of the number of items, was eventually introduced in 1952. Shortly after this the charge was changed to Is Od ( 0.05) per item on the prescription. ... 

The inquiry was headed by Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party and Lord Privy Seal in the coalition government. He traced the fault to Sir William Brown, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, but wrote that it would not be right to attribute to any one individual the responsibility for failure . Brown kept his job.17... 

More interestingly, the conventional narrative of Britain and atomic weapons dates the decision to go ahead with the design and construction of a bomb to a meeting of a cabinet committee in January 1947. This committee had a relatively restricted membership Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President Viscount Addison, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and John Wilmot, Minister of Supply. 

Portal precipitated matters, noting on 31 December that After obtaining the views of the Chiefs of Staff, which I found to coincide exactly with my own, I had a few words with the Prime Minister . Thus in January 1947, the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, convened a Cabinet conunittee and the formal decision to go ahead with the development of the bomb was taken. Penney was put in charge and immediately drew up a description of the design of the bomb as recalled by those who had worked on the Manhattan Project, assisted in particular by James Tuck. The drawing shown seems to be merely that of a series of concentric spheres, but there are some points of note. 

A term analogous to WMD is known to have been used in an official document as early as 15 November 1945 earlier uses are likely. On that date, a communique sent over the signatures of U.S. president Harry S. Truman, British prime minister Clement Attlee, and Canadian prime minister W. L. MacKenzie King recommended establishing an... 

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