Ministry of Works and Buildings
1940 Formation of the Ministry of Works and Buildings. The new department took over the whole organisation of the Office of Works. It was made responsible for all new civil works and buildings required by other government departments, including the provision for them of additional and emergency accommodation and the maintenance of a central register of accommodation.
Other specifically wartime functions included new building work as part of the war effort; structural precautions against damage to public buildings from air raids and repair of damage to such buildings; the co-ordination of government building programmes and control of the building and building materials industries; and long-term planning for postwar physical reconstruction.
1942 Reorganised as the Ministry of Works and Planning incorporating the statutory planning powers transferred from the Ministry of Health.
1943 The planning divisions of the ministry were removed to form the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. The Ministry of Works and Buildings was renamed the Ministry of Works.
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Sources of Information
- [1] National Archives