6th February. Mr. Bernard Braine, replying to a question from Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, stated that the equivalent of 198 full-time psychologists were employed in the National Health Service in England and Wales on 30th September, 1962, the latest date for which national figures were available. 13 th February. Replying to a question from Lord Balniel, the Minister of Health, Mr. Anthony Barber, gave i...

Bernard Braine said that he had no evidence that general hospitals were refusing to admit mentally confused aged people, or that mental hospitals refused admittance to such people unless they were violent. He added that he would investigate any cases of difficulty which Mr. Pavitt had in mind. Impact of Television on the Young. (10th July). Mr. Henry Brooke announced the composition of the Fras...

Autistic Children (22nd March). The education and training of these children was the subject of an adjournment debate. It was estimated, said Mr. Compton Carr, that there were about 3,000 to 4,000 of these children and he urged more help for the family, more community care, more co-operation between education and health authorities and more research and experimentation in all aspects of the pro...

in modern legal systems there are a variety of sources of law. judicial precedent is one of the legal sources; thus, precedents of supreme court, like enactments of parliament, are enforceable in courts. this similarity between precedents and acts impose many problems as role of supreme court in interpretation of   laws. but the most important problem is the possibility of changing previous pre...

Compared with the traditional public-finance approach of a monolithic fully informed planner, earmarking of taxation is less likely to be optimal if a principal-agent setting is considered, where taxing and spending are performed by two separate agents which are monitored by the parliament. We assume that the parliament either maximizes welfare or expected votes. Vote maximizers are more inclin...