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The Electricity Council: Federalism and Finance

In: Engineers, Managers and Politicians

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  • Leslie Hannah

    (London School of Economics)

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The new Electricity Council under Self, and the Central Electricity Generating Board under Hinton, each began meeting formally in September 1957, and for the first four months ‘shadowed’ the decisions of Citrine’s CEA, as they prepared for their formal takeover on 1 January 1958. The new organisations inherited both the staff and the scattered Central London buildings of the CEA. It was not until 1963/4 that the Council and the CEGB moved to their present offices at, respectively, 30 Millbank (near Whitehall and Westminster) and in the City in Paternoster Square (next to St Paul’s). The weakest part of the new structure was the Electricity Council, with a staff of just over 500 and few formal powers. Twelve of its members — a majority — were from the now independent Area Boards and three from the CEGB. These fifteen Board representatives could impose their policies on the five central members — Self, Eccles, Citrine (now a relatively inactive part-timer), Edwards (the newcomer), and Melling (who had left the Eastern Board chairmanship for a new post at the centre). The new Council had no power to issue policy directives: the Ministry rather than they were the residuary legatee of the CEA in this respect.

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  • Leslie Hannah, 1982. "The Electricity Council: Federalism and Finance," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Engineers, Managers and Politicians, chapter 16, pages 193-207, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03446-8_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03446-8_16
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