To what extent can it be said that the Liberal Government of 1906-1911 laid the basis for the British welfare state?

Since the end of World War II the United Kingdom has been increasingly referred to as a welfare state.  This means the government of the day has a responsibility to eliminate the worst causes of poverty by imposing minimum standards of subsistence, medical care, education, housing and nutrition by the means of the social services, minimum wage legislation and government regulations.  These minimum standards were established as a floor or safety net below which no one in society would be allowed to sink.  As Sir William Beveridge stated, the welfare state should cover one’s life from the “cradle to the grave”….(short extract)