Research Briefing
Public Reading Stage of Bills
This note reviews the proposals for introducing a public reading stage for bills; outlines the pilots that have been conducted; and reports on the evaluations of those pilots.
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Research Briefing
Census 2011 Constituency results: United Kingdom
This briefing compiles 2011 Census data for UK constituencies - including age, country of birth, ethnicity, car ownership and housing tenure. Highest and lowest constituencies, maps and access to demographic profiles of all parliamentary constituencies.
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Research Briefing
Public bill and general committees: pay for chairs
This note outlines the background to proposals for introducing salaries for the chairmen of standing committees (now public bill and general committees), which were agreed by the House on 13 July 2005.
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Research Briefing
Select Committees – pay for chairs
This note briefly reviews the background to proposals for paying select committee chairs.
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Research Briefing
Repeal of section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983
In January 2010, the Speaker’s Conference on Parliamentary Representation recommended that section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983 should be repealed. The provision was repealed by the Mental Health Discrimination Act 2013.
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Research Briefing
The McKay Commission: Report of the Commission on the consequences of devolution for the House of Commons
This Note looks at the McKay Commission: Report of the Commission on the consequences of devolution for the House of Commons. The report called for the adoption of a constitutional convention that decisions at the United Kingdom level with a separate and distinct effect for England (or for England-and-Wales) should normally be taken only with the consent of a majority of MPs for constituencies in England (or England-and-Wales).
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Research Briefing
Private Bills in Parliament: House of Commons Background Paper
This House of Commons Background Paper sets out how private bills are passed through the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
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Research Briefing
Women in Parliament: making a difference since 1918
This document, produced especially for Parliament Week 2013, examines the role that women have played in Parliament. It includes a statistics on the increasing number of women in Parliament, brief profiles of selected Women Members and finishes by examining key pieces of legislation that have been passed by women.
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Research Briefing
Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill: Progress of the Bill
This Note charts the progress of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill through Parliament. It complements Research Paper 13/51 prepared for the Commons Second Reading.
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Research Briefing
Nepal’s endless peace process, 2006-12
This note gives an account of Nepal’s peace process from the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in November 2006 to the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, its mandate unfulfilled, in May 2012. The note will not be updated.
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Research Briefing
Party funding: background and developments since November 2011
This note briefly draws together Library material on party funding issues; provides a chronology of Sir Hayden Phillips’ review of party funding; notes the information that the CSPL has published as its inquiry proceeded; notes press coverage the CSPL inquiry generated; and notes developments since the publication of the CSPL report.
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Research Briefing
Officers of Parliament: recent developments
This Standard Note updates Research Paper 03/77 Officers of Parliament: A Comparative Perspective, in respect of developments at the UK level.
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Research Briefing
Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 17 July 2013. This briefing has been prepared to inform the Second Reading debate on the Bill which is scheduled to take place on 3 September 2013.
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