The national health service sine the 1967 act made this an important part of the government’s concern.
His statement is of interest in the context of this book for several reasons. First, Britain was not alone among developed nations in reviewing the nature and desirability of government policies designed to affect population
Secondly, it represents also the realisation that national population policy should concern itself not with government activities which directly affect and aim to affect population growth, movement, and distrlbution but two other areas as well.
Government activity indirectly affects population in a great variety of ways. But also, population has on internal dynamic whose effect are of importance for a range of government activities. The Zuckerman memorandum gives explicit recognition to the importance of each of these interactions and argues that the government should have a coherent population policy which includes them.