Social - Key Facts Flashcards
What aimed to change the Lords
Attendence expenses
Name of the act that created life peers to bring new blood and eminent people into the Lords
Life Peerage Act 1958
Name of the cases that hightened controversy around the death penalty
- Bentley
- Evans
- Ellis
Who led the pressure group against the death penalty
Arthur Koestler
Name of the Labour MP that introduced a Private Memebers bill to suspend executions
Sidney Silverman
Name of the act which significantly reduced the categories of murder and allowed the defence of ‘diminished responsibility’
Homocide Act 1957
Name of the act that aimed to rationalise the Lunacy Acts and destigmatise mental health
Mental Health Act 1959
Act that decriminalised attempted suicide
Suicide Act 1961
Act that backfired massively
Rent Act 1957
Name of the horrible landlord
Peter Rachman
Name of the report that increased the school leaving age
Crowther Report 1959
Number of new hosuing units built under the Conservatives
1 million
Number of slum dwellings cleared under the Conservatives
253,000
Number of miles of motorway built under the Conservatives
260 Miles
Act that gave government aid to certain areas
Local Employment Act 1960
Number of jobs the Local Employment Act created
900,000
Name of the act which aimed to moderise the railways
Transport Act 1962
Name of people involved in political corruption of the ‘New Towns’
- T Dan Smith (Mr Newscastle)
- John Poulson
Percentage rise in education spending
10%
Name of the report which recommended a massive expansion of higher education
Robbins Report 1963