Go to a lawyer, a doctor, a financial wizard and you come away with a bill and perhaps a morsel of advice that may be no more helpful than that dispensed by the Delphic Mrs Lederer.

ECONOMIST: Esther Lederer, agony aunt, died on June 22nd, aged 83

Gordon Brown has taken advice from a group of "wise men", such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, for several years.

BBC: Business leaders to advise Tories

Matt Lancashire from Citizens Advice Scotland agreed there was a "lack of detail about many aspects of the bill" and it would be helpful if the Scottish government had a role in the legislation.

BBC: Health Committee 1

In Westminster Hall, the Commons parallel debating chamber, one of the subjects will pick up complaints about the Legal Aid etc Bill - the effect of changes to legal aid on the not-for-profit advice sector.

BBC: Week ahead in Parliament

For that reason, this reviewer opened his new book with some trepidation: would Mr Stiglitz now say that the American economy would have performed so much better if only Bill Clinton and others had taken his advice when he was on the White House's Council of Economic Advisers in 1993-97?

ECONOMIST: When economics meets politics, guess which one wins

The Cabinet Office said Parliament was required to seek the consent of the Queen and the Prince of Wales for certain bills and consent had only ever been refused on ministers' advice and never for a government bill.

BBC: Royal 'consent' to laws revealed after FOI battle