Abstract
In this chapter a brief review of each phase of industrial and regional policy in the United Kingdom under the Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson and Heath governments, concentrating on the period 1959–73, is followed by more detailed description of the various industrial support measures. These last are classified under the following headings:
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Incentives to industry in general
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Investment incentives
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Selective employment tax
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Industrial training
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Assistance to research and development
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Programmes intended to influence industrial structures
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Industrial Reorganization Corporation
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Industrial Expansion Act
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Regional policies
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T. Stark, “The Corporation Tax and Incentives”, The Manchester School, Manchester, May 1966.
Nicholas Kaldor, Causes of the Slow Rate of Economic Growth in the United Kingdom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966).
W. B. Reddaway, et al., Effects of the Selective Employment Tax, Occasional Paper No. 32 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), p. 170.
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Denton, G., O’Cleireacain, S., Ash, S. (1975). Industrial Policy in the United Kingdom. In: Trade Effects of Public Subsidies to Private Enterprise. Trade Policy Research Centre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02262-5_2
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