Research Briefing
Defined Benefit Pension Schemes – 2018 White Paper
Looks at the issues discussed in Defined Benefit Pension Schemes White Paper published on 19 March 2018
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Research Briefing
What can artificial intelligence reveal about Brexit?
How well can artificial intelligence understand language? We let a deep learning algorithm loose on millions of words found in Hansard from Brexit-related debates in the House of Commons. What did it find?
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Insight
What can artificial intelligence reveal about Brexit?
How well can artificial intelligence understand language? We let a deep learning algorithm loose on millions of words found in Hansard from Brexit-related debates in the House of Commons. What did it find?
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Research Briefing
Workers underpaid the minimum wage
The minimum wage is one of the fundamental employment rights in the UK. But the minimum wage doesn’t enforce itself. This briefing looks at what is known about workers paid less than the minimum wage.
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Research Briefing
Public ownership of industries and services
Utilities, industries and services can be owned by the public or the private sector. Various models have existed in the UK, including full nationalisation, privatisation with regulation and municipalisation.
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Research Briefing
Businesses that trade with non-EU countries, by constituency
Download this spreadsheet to see a list of businesses in your constituency that trade with non-EU countries, and the products they trade in.
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Debate Pack
Proposed takeover of GKN by Melrose
Westminster Hall Thursday 15 March 2018, 3.00pm Debate sponsored by Adrian Bailey MP
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Research Briefing
The collapse of Carillion
Carillion entered compulsory liquidation on 15 January 2018. This briefing looks at the causes and consequences of Carillion's collapse.
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Research Briefing
Minimum wage: cracks in the floor
The minimum wage is one of the fundamental employment rights in the UK. It was introduced in 1999 and was named the ‘most successful government policy of the past 30 years’ in a poll of 159 members of the Political Studies Association in 2010. The level of the minimum wage has risen rapidly in the
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Research Briefing
Capita: where did the capital go?
If Capita stopped trading today, its creditors and shareholders would be in for an unpleasant surprise. On its most recent balance sheet, Capita had £668 million more liabilities than assets – in other words, it had negative equity. What’s more, of the assets it does have, many would be hard to sell. Over a third
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Research Briefing
Carillion collapse: what went wrong?
Construction and services giant Carillion collapsed under £1.3 billion of debt this week. The first public sign that the company was in serious trouble was an announcement on 10th July 2017: profits would be hit to the tune of £845 million. Its chief executive resigned and it was announced that there would be no dividends
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Research Briefing
Pay it forward: the meaning of company pay ratios
The best-paid CEO in the UK, Martin Sorrell of WPP, was paid £48 million in 2016 – 826 times his employees’ average pay. This was down from 1,336 times in 2015. In its consultation on corporate governance reform, the Government argued that: ‘…there is a widespread perception that executive pay has become increasingly disconnected from
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