Editing Selwyn Lloyd (section)

====1961: NEDC====
Lloyd had announced that there would be a new economic planning body as part of his 25 July measures.<ref name="Dell 1997, p267">Dell 1997, p. 267.</ref> On 8 August Lloyd suggested inviting Industry and Trade Union leaders. There was a stormy meeting of the Cabinet on 21 September, at which only John Hare and Lord Hailsham supported him, but covert support for the proposal from Macmillan swung other ministers behind the scheme. On 23 September, after a period of consultation, formal invitations were issued to the TUC, the Federation of British Industry, the British Employers' Confederation, the National Union of Manufacturers and the Association of British Chambers of Commerce.<ref>Thorpe 1989, p. 327.</ref> He told them of his plans to set up the [[National Economic Development Council]] (NEDC) in imitation of the French ''[[Commissariat general du Plan (France)|Commissariat du Plan]]'', chaired by the Chancellor, and containing a few other ministers, as well as other appointed members who would include leading trade unionists and business leaders, as well perhaps as other economic thinkers. He also proposed setting up a National Economic Development Organisation (NEDO), whose chair would be drawn from outside the civil service, to advise NEDC. Lloyd did not get on with trade unionists. The TUC, which disliked the Pay Pause, agreed to cooperate only on condition that they were not expected to preach wage restraint.<ref>Dell 1997, pp. 269–70.</ref> Thorpe writes that Lloyd had Macmillan's backing against a sceptical Cabinet,<ref name="Matthew 2004, p160-1"/> but Williams writes that Lloyd was lukewarm about the NEDC, which was Macmillan's project.<ref name="Williams 2010, p402-4">Williams 2010, pp. 402–4.</ref>

[[Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor|Henry Brooke]] was appointed to the new position of [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]] in October 1961 so Lloyd did not have to spend all his time arguing with Cabinet colleagues about their planned level of expenditure.<ref>Thorpe 1989, p. 314.</ref> The NEDC was unlikely to reap any benefits by the time of the next general election, nor to help in reining pay in. There was a big pay increase in the electricity industry in November 1961, because of the strength of the unions and the weakness of the minister [[Richard Wood, Baron Holderness|Richard Wood]].<ref>Dell 1997, p. 273.</ref> The Pay Pause had brought short term benefits but anomalies had made it unpopular, something it shared with later incomes policies. There was even a threat to strike by the 120 workers who made cricket balls.<ref name="Dell 1997, p274">Dell 1997, p. 274.</ref>