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Question 1

Which of the following statements about New Labour's health and education policies is correct?

a) New Labour has removed the Conservative's quasi-markets in healthcare and abolished testing of pupils

b) New Labour has sought increasing uniformity in the organisation of both schools and hospitals

c) New Labour has significantly reduced the extent to which healthcare and educational providers have to meet centrally set targets

d) New Labour's spending on health and education increased significantly after 1999

Question 2

Which of the following reforms were introduced by the Conservative governments which held office between 1979 and 1997?

a) Creation of foundation hospitals

b) Abolition of the assisted places scheme

c) Launching the national curriculum

d) Introduction of higher education tuition fees

Question 3

Richard Titmuss is associated with which of the following arguments?

a) The need to invest in human capital via the welfare state to meet the demands of a 'knowledge based economy'

b) The modern education system needs to regard school children as more than passive recipients of knowledge

c) Use of the market in the provision of welfare services is inappropriate

d) Welfare services need to be shifted away from monolithic and homogeneous to decentralised and tailored welfare services

Question 4

Which one of the following statements is correct?

a) The education system has become a less regulated area of policy under the present Labour government

b) In recent years the principal division between the Conservative and Labour Party was over the financing of education and health care policies

c) Health and education are policy areas which are now devolved in both Scotland and Wales

d) New Labour has ended the charitable status of public schools

Question 5

The Conservative Party proposed which of the following policies at the 2005 general election?

a) An increase in income tax for high earners to fund improved health care and education services

b) Increased involvement in of local government in the provision of health care

c) Abolition of all health care waiting lists for treatment within five years

d) A new regulatory body to oversee admissions policies in state schools

Question 6

Arguments relating to which one of the following are advanced by Albert O. Hirschman?

a) Knights, knaves, pawns and queens

b) Exit, voice and loyalty

c) Class, culture and charity

d) Hard working families who play by the rules

Question 7

Which one of the following statements accurately characterises an aspect of New Labour's policies on education?

a) The system of testing at ages 7, 11 and 14 inherited from the Conservatives was abolished in Labour's first term

b) Schools are not permitted to select students on any basis whatsoever

c) The number of specialist secondary schools has increased significantly since 1997

d) The Labour government has abolished the system of educational targets introduced by the Conservative Party

Question 8

In 2003 total health expenditure accounted for what percentage of Gross Domestic Product?

a) 3%

b) 5.6%

c) 6.9%

d) 8.3%

Question 9

The 1997 White Paper, A New NHS was significant in which one of the following ways?

a) It abolished prescription charges

b) It abolished the right of hospital consultants to treat patients privately

c) It curtailed the 'internal market'

d) It proposed increasing National Insurance Contributions to fund better health care provision

Question 10

Which of the following statements is correct in respect of the Private Finance Initiative?

a) The Private Finance Initiative was a new policy introduced by the Labour government elected in 1997

b) The Private Finance Initiative is typically used for large capital projects

c) The Private Finance Initiative has proven an uncontroversial means of raising additional finance for the public sector

d) The Private Finance Initiative now accounts for the majority of public investment

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Chapter 28

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