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Policy advice at No.10: the Lloyd George legacy

Posted by: Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on: 5 December 2017 - Categories: Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10

The Prime Minister's Secretariat (the 'Garden Suburb') was formed 100 years ago, to support David Lloyd George in the conduct of the war. But would it still be needed once hostilities came to an end?

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A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One

Posted by: Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on: 5 January 2017 - Categories: Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']

...A hundred years ago today, on 5 January 1917, in the midst of the Great War, an important note was circulated around Whitehall departments. J. T. Davis, private secretary to...

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