Debate Pack
Stoke on Trent City of Culture 2021
A Westminster Hall debate entitled Stoke on Trent City of Culture 2021 will be held at 4.30pm on Tuesday 21 March 2017. The Member in charge of this debate is Ruth Smeeth MP.
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Research Briefing
VAT and Sports Clubs
This note examines the VAT treatment of sports clubs - in the context of the change made in UK VAT law in 1994 to exempt from VAT certain sport supplies, and subsequent debate as to how these rules have affected golf clubs.
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Debate Pack
Governance of the Football Association
A backbench business debate on a motion relating to Governance of the Football Association will be held in the Commons Chamber on Thursday 9 February 2017. The debate will be led by Damian Collins MP, Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, and by Christian Matheson MP and Andrew Bingham MP.
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Research Briefing
Commons Library Analysis of the Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill 2016-17
This Commons Library Briefing Paper looks at the Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill 2016-17.
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Debate Pack
Allocation of funding from the soft drinks industry levy for sport in schools
This pack has been prepared ahead of the debate to be held in Westminster Hall on Tuesday 10 January 2017 at 2.30pm on the allocation of funding from the soft drinks industry levy for sport in schools. The debate will be opened by Justin Tomlinson MP
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Research Briefing
BBC Charter renewal
The current BBC Charter expires at the end of 2016. A new Charter has now been agreed. What was the process, what is in the new Charter and what happened when it was last renewed?
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Research Briefing
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [HL] 2016-17: Committee Stage Report
The Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [HL] 2016-17 has been considered in Public Bill Committee. This Commons Library Briefing Paper gives an overview of the debate so far.
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Debate Pack
Homophobia in sport
This Commons Library debate pack looks at what has been said on homophobia in sport and what various sports and organisations are doing to combat it.
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Research Briefing
Committee Stage Report on the Digital Economy Bill
The Digital Economy Bill implements a number of policies broadly related to the digital economy. This paper covers the key issues debated at Committee Stage.
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Debate Pack
Release of the 700 MHz spectrum band for mobile data in 2020
This pack has been prepared ahead of the debate on the Release of the 700 MHz spectrum band for mobile data in 2020, to be held in Westminster Hall on Tuesday 15 November at 4.30pm. The Member in charge of the debate is Calum Kerr MP.
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Research Briefing
Commons Library Analysis of the Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [HL] (Bill 66 of 2016-17)
This Briefing Paper has been prepared for the second reading debate of the Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [HL] 2016-17 on 31 October 2016. The Bill would enable the UK to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and accede to its two Protocols.
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Research Briefing
Commons Library analysis of the Digital Economy Bill
The Digital Economy Bill 2016-17 [Bill no. 45] was published on 6 July 2016 and its First Reading in the House of Commons took place that day. Its Second Reading is scheduled for Tuesday 13 September 2016.
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Research Briefing
Brexit: impact across policy areas
This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the situation in a range of policy areas and considers what impact Brexit might have. This will depend, among other things, on the Brexit negotiations, whether the UK stays in the European Economic Area and how the Government fills any policy gaps left by withdrawal.
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Research Briefing
Adult magazines in shops
This House of Commons Library briefing paper summarises what guidelines say about the display of adult magazines in shops.
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Research Briefing
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and background
This briefing concerns the establishment of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, a statutory Inquiry which formally opened in July 2015. This Inquiry replaced the previous, non-statutory, Inquiry set up in July 2014 which saw both of its Chairs resign; on 4 August 2016, Justice Goddard resigned as the Chair of the statutory inquiry and on 11 August it was announced that Professor Alexis Jay would be the new Chair.
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