National Board for Prices and Incomes

[2] The board's initial topics, given by the government, were to deal with the pricing of soap, bread and road haulage.The association's combative response was to prove a typical reaction to most of the board's findings throughout its existence.[3] With the failure of Brown's national economic plans and especially after devaluation in 1967, wage control was more consistently opposed by British trades unions, and eventually in 1970, Wilson proposed to merge the board with the Monopolies Commission, with Jones at its head.[1] Clegg wrote a book on his experience entitled How to Run an Incomes Policy, and Why We Made Such a Mess of the Last One.[4][5] Subsequently, in 1972, the Conservative government of Edward Heath revived the idea with a Price Commission and a Pay Board, which were similarly unpopular, but the Price Commission was retained (and the Pay Board abolished) by the returning Wilson government in 1974.
Price CommissionAubrey JonesHarold WilsoninflationBritish economymanaging wages and pricesConservativeHugh Cleggprice-fixingRoad Haulage AssociationTransport and General Workers UnionPrices and Incomes OrdersGeorge BrownSecretary of State for Economic AffairsForeign SecretarydevaluationMonopolies CommissionEdward HeathPrice controlsIncomes policyPrices and Incomes Act 1966The IndependentOxford Dictionary of National BiographyModern Records Centre, University of Warwick