User:Morwen/timeline

Timeline of local and regional government etc in the United Kingdom

1601 - Poor Law
1801 - first census of Great Britain
1808 - County Aslums Act 1808
1815 - Apothecaries Act 1815
1818 - Regulation of Parish Vestries Act 1818
1819 - Peterloo massacre
1819 - Poor Relief Act 1819
1827 - Bribery and Corruption in Elections Act 1827
1828 - Test Act repealed
1828 - County Aslums Act 1828
1828 - Care and Treatment of Insane Persons Act 1828 - sets up Metropolitan Commission in Lunacy to inspect private asylums in London
1829 - Metropolitan Police Act 1829 - sets up the Metropolitan Police for London
1829 - Catholic Emancipation Act 1829
1831 - Better Regulation of the Vestries Act 1831
1831 - Land tax abolished
1832 - Reform Act 1832
1833 - Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1833 (aka the Burgh Reform Act 1833)
1834 - Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 - sets up poor law unions in England and Wales
1835 - Municipal Corporations Act 1835
1835 - Highways Act 1835
1837 - Births, deaths and marriages registry in England and Wales
1840 - Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840
1844 - Poor Law Amendment Act 1844
1845 - Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) Act 1845
1845 - Museums Act 1845
1848 - Public Health Act 1848
1848 - Metropolitan Commission of Sewers Act 1848 - Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
1850 - Public Libaries Act 1850 (England and Wales, public libraries)
1851 - window tax abolished
1855 - Metropolitan Board of Works set up, also Metropolis (Local Management) Act sets up 48 district boards
1856 - County and Borough Police Act 1856
1857 - Births, deaths and marriages registry in Scotland
1857 - Police (Scotland) Act 1857
1858 - Local Government Act 1858
1860 - Adulderation of Food and Drunk Act 1860
1862 - Police (Scotland) Act 1862
1870 - Elementary Education Act 1870, sets up school districts and school boards,

including the London School Board

1875 - Public Health Act 1875 - urban and rural sanitary districts set up in England and Wales
1889 - Local Government Act 1888 comes into force, creates administrative counties, county councils, county boroughs and a County of London
1889 - Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 passed
1894 - Local Government Act 1894 - creation of urban district, rural districts, parish councils
1898 - Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
1899 - metropolitan boroughs in the County of London
1900 - Town Councils (Scotland) Act 1900
1909 - Housing and Town PLanning Act 1909
1913 - attempts of Luton and Cambridge to become county boroughs stopped
1919 - Housing Act 1919
1903 - London School Board abolished, powers tranferred to London County Council
1926 - Local Government (County Boroughs and Adjustments) Act 1926 raises county borough limit to 75,000 - no new county boroughs created between 1926 and 1964
1926 - Boards of Guardiands (Default) Act 1926 - Poplarism
1929 - Local Government Act 1929 abolishes poor law unions/boards of guardians (comes into effect in 1930). also allows county councils to review borders of urban districts and rural districts. this is what led to the mergers in the 1930s
1929 - Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 - comes into effect in 1930 - creates small burghs and large burghs
1930/1931 - Poor law powers to county boroughs and county councils
1934 - central government takes over unemployment relief
1944 - Education Act 1944 removes education powers from large urban districts/municipal boroughs
1944 - central government gains veto on Chief Education Officer
1945 - Local Government Boundary Commission established to look at issues of boundaries, chair = Malcolm Trustam Eve
1946 - National Health Service Act 1946 - personal health service functions moved from boroughs and districts to counties
1947 - Town and Country Planning Act 1947 - town planning to counties
1947 - Fire Services Act 1947 - fire brigades handed back to local authority control - but to counties
1947 - Local Government Boundary Commission reports back, refusing to consider boundaries without also consider functions. In response, Aneurin Bevan abolishes the Commission
1947 - central government gains veto on Chief Fire Officer
1948 - Children Act 1948. central government gains veto on Chief Children's Officer
1949 - Clement Davies Report recommends a Greater London local authority
1957 - Royal Commission established on the problem of Greater London - the Herbert Commission
1958 - Local Government Act 1958 - creates Local Government Commissions to handle minor boundary changes in England and Wales
1958 - general grant established, replacing various specific grants
1963 - Local Government (Financial Porivisions) Act - penny rate allowed to be spent on any purpose "in interests of the area"
1965 - London Government Act 1963 comes into effect, creates Greater London, Greater London Council
1965 - new minister of houseing Richard Crossman, Labour Party
1965 - some county borough creation happens
1965 - creation of Huntingdon and Peterborough and Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. however, proposals to abolished Rutland vetoed.
1966 - Redcliffe-Maud Commission set up for England
1966 - Wheatley Commission set up for Scotland
1967 - White Paper proposes 5 welsh counties (Gwynedd/Powys/Dyfed/Glamorgan/Gwent) and 3 county boroughs (Swansea, Cardiff, Newport)
1969 - Redcliffe-Maud Report finished. this is accepted by the Labour government of the time, except that they decided to add West Yorkshire and South Hampshire as metropolitan areas
1969 - Wheatley Commission basically recommends the two-tier system in use from 1975-1996
1970 - Conservative Party win UK general election, committed to 'two-tier' system
1972 - Local Government Act 1972 shepherded through Parliament
1972 - Housing Finance Act 1972 - Clay Cross scandal
1973 - unitary authorities in Northern Ireland, under the Local Government (Northern Ireland) Act 1972 - reduces 73 local authorities to 26
1973 - March 15 - new county council elections
1973 - April 12 - metropolitan district elections
1973 - June 7 - non-metropolitan districts
1974 - Local Government Act 1972 abolishes county boroughs and creates metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts and counties in England and Wales
1975 - Local Government Act (Scotland) 1973 comes into effect, sets up regions and districts in Scotland
1983 - Streamlining the Cities whitepaper
1985 - Local Government Act 1985 passed
1985/1986 - revaluation of rates in Scotland
1986 - Metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council abolished, under LGA1985, creates ILEA
1988 - Education Reform Act 1888 passed, abolishes Inner London Education Authority in 1990
1989 - Local Government and Housing Act 1989 - "monitoring officer", also bans packing commitees
1989 - Poll Tax in Scotland
1990 - Poll Tax in England and Wales
1991 - consultation paper published for Scotland
1991 - consultation paper published for Wales
1992 - Local Government Act 1992 passed for England, start of 1990s UK local government reform
1993 - White Paper published for Scotland, proposes 25 single-tier councils
1993 - poll tax abolished. Council Tax introduced
1994 - Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 passed
1994 - Local Government Etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 passed, with 29 single-tier councils (plus the islands councils)
1994 - Police and Magistrates' Court Act 1994
1995 - Isle of Wight made unitary
1996 - new unitaries come into effect in Scotland and Wales. Avon, Cleveland and Humberside all abolished. York unitary.
1996 - Police Act 1996
1997 - new unitaries of Bournemouth, Brighton and Hove, Darlington, Derby, Leicester, Luton, Milton Keynes, Poole, Portsmouth, Rutland, Southampton
1998 - new unitaries of Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen, Halton, Herefordshire, Medway, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Swindon, Stoke-on-Trent, Southend-on-Sea, Telford and Wrekin, Torbay, Thurrock, Warrington. Berkshire becomes six unitaries.
1999 - Scottish Parliament meets
2000 - Greater London Authority, Mayor of London, London Assembly
2002 - first directly elected mayor
2007 - STV to be introduced in Scotland