Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 Commission were:, The first seven were appointed in 1832, the last two in 1833. The writers of the report suggested radical changes to English Poor Laws: There was strong support for the report from all sides of Parliament. The report's ideas were quickly passed into law. The Whigs controlled the House of Commons and supported the utilitarian arguments of thinkers such as Jeremy Bentham. Those that did not support the bill were more concerned with the levels of centralisation the act would bring rather than the recommendations of the report such as the building of workhouses. The report lowered the
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham in many points of detail, and which omits Bentham's writings on religion; and also the 3-volume "Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings" (1952–54) edited by Werner Stark, which has likewise been subject to criticism. The series is being published under the auspices of the Bentham Project at University College London, whose library holds the majority of Bentham's surviving manuscripts. Since 2010 the Project has also run Transcribe Bentham, a project for transcribing Bentham's manuscripts through crowdsourcing, the output of which is intended, once edited, to appear in future "Collected Works" volumes. The Bentham Project is governed by the Bentham Committee, which was