Political Developments: Housing and Social Security

Question 1

How many houses lacked a bath in 1971?

Answer 1

What happened to a flat block that made the government change their policies? Where did this happen and what year?

Question 2

Why is the lack of household facilities in houses significant?

Answer 2

Labour chose quantity over quality to meet housing targets

Question 3

What towns were launched to construction planned by Conservatives?

Answer 3

Milton Keynes

Question 4

What towns were launched to construction planned by Conservatives?

Answer 4

Lots of shops showed government were emphasising consumer spending

Question 5

What is a building that the Conservatives planned but Labour built?

Answer 5

The Post Office Tower

Question 6

What is a building that the Conservatives planned but Labour built? (Telecommunication)

Answer 6

It could make them seem more like a party who took action

Question 7

What projects did Labour start to revive inner cities?

Answer 7

1969 Community Development Project

Question 8

What did the Community Development project do? What year?

Answer 8

Tackled social and racial problems, 1969

Question 9

What was significant about the Community Development Project?

Answer 9

Labour wanted better opportunities for all citizens including ethnic minorities

Question 10

What was a Limitation of the revival of inner city schemes?

Answer 10

Most were discontinued after 1970

Question 11

What was a Limitation of the revival of inner city schemes?

Answer 11

25 pence

Question 12

What was a limitation of the family allowance increase?

Answer 12

Labour did not want to take it further due to being amid an economic crisis

Question 13

When did the economy get out of the crisis? How much did Family allowance increase?

Answer 13

1968, weekly family allowance went up by 50 pence

Question 14

What was significant about family allowance increases after the economic crisis?

Answer 14

Labour stuck to their promises of improving it

Question 15

What did CPAG want abolition of in terms of tax allowances?

Answer 15

Abolition of tax allowances for better off families

Question 16

What did CPAG want abolition of in terms of tax allowances?

Answer 16

To give more funding to family allowances

Question 17

What was a limitation of Labour’s willingness to cut tax allowances?

Answer 17

They were cautious as low income people would have to pay higher income tax

Question 18

What was the impact of the CPAG tax allowance abolition demands?

Answer 18

It damaged government relationships with CPAG. Could be significant as govt would later be less inclined to do what CPAG wanted

Question 19

Why did Labour start building more blocks of flats as housing?

Answer 19

To get more people in less space

Question 20

What was a limitation of space used with flats?

Answer 20

In order to meet planning regulations they needed to have a certain amount of space between each block

Question 21

What did the space between each flat block reveal?

Answer 21

Houses could have been built instead

Question 22

What were the flat conditions?

Answer 22

They were cold and damp

Question 23

How would blocks of flats socially impact the public?

Answer 23

Built up neighbourhood communities could no longer exist

Question 24

What was the majority of British public opinion on the flats?

Answer 24

They were horrible

Question 25

What happened to a flat block that made the government change their policies? Where did this happen and what year?

Answer 25

1968 Ronan Point Collapse