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to prepare to take over because "I can't think Frank Cousins will stay long. He's not fit anyway." In the event, Cousins resigned on 3 July 1966 when the Prices and Incomes Bill was published, and was duly replaced by Benn.
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However, Cousins' performance in the role was disappointing, partly because Cousins was new to the political scene but also because he disagreed with Government economic policy in general. By the time of the
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in October 1964 as part of Wilson's ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to be the needs of the 1960s. The pledge was included in the
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wrote an outline, "The Case for a Ministry of Technology" in September 1964 and worked with Snow, Cousins and two senior
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Benn was then closely associated with Wilson and worked with him to build the Ministry into a powerful voice within
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was briefly a parliamentary secretary for the department in 1970 at the beginning of the Heath government.
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which was disbanded in 1971 with functions passing to the Department of Trade and Industry and the
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on 6 October 1969; it therefore became one of the largest and most powerful in government.
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for the ministry, a role he carried out from October 1964 until April 1966. Professor
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Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science, Research and Innovation
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was created Baron Snow of Leicester so that he could play the role of
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Index

Minister of Technology
Ministry of Power
Ministry of Aviation
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Department of Trade and Industry
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Harold Wilson
Labour Party's
1964 general election
manifesto
Frank Cousins
Transport and General Workers Union
C. P. Snow
parliamentary secretary
House of Lords
Patrick Blackett
civil servants
Maurice Dean
Christopher Herzig

1966 general election
Tony Benn
Whitehall
Ministry of Aviation
Ministry of Power
Edward Heath
1970 general election
Board of Trade
Department of Trade and Industry

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