Research Briefing
This note examines the recent developments concerning loans to the main political parties and the provision in the Electoral Administration Act 2006 that in future all such loans should be treated in the same way as donations.
Research Briefing
This note sets out the background to the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2006-07.
Research Briefing
This note gives details about some of the main organisations involved with organising youth parliaments and other initiatives to increase youth participation in the political process.
Research Briefing
This note relates some of the further developments in the debate on House of Lords reform that have taken place since the last Standard Note, House of Lords reform - recent developments (SN/PC/2973). The note also considers the steps that have been taken since to make progress on the question of Lords reform.
Research Briefing
This note outlines the background to the establishment of the Joint Committee to review the coventions of the House of Lords and then reviews the conventions identified in the motion. It reviews the debates in both Houses on establishing the Joint Committee in the House of Lords.
Research Briefing
The Statistics and Registration Service Bill (Bill 8 2006-07). House of Commons Library Research Paper 06/66.
Research Briefing
This note briefly reviews the changes made to the Bill in the Commons and, so far, in the Lords, and the background to those changes.
Research Briefing
This short note examines major amendments to the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill during its passage through both Houses.
Research Briefing
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on Parliamentary sitting hours: comparative statistics from 2006.
Research Briefing
The Power Inquiry was established and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to investigate why there has been a decline in participation in formal politics and to make proposals to reverse this trend. The report of the Power Inquiry was published on 27 February 2006.
Research Briefing
On 18 December 2001 the House debated and agreed a motion to allow Members who had chosen not to take their seats to use facilities within the precincts of the House and use the departments of the House, and claim Members' Allowances.
Research Briefing
The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (Bill 111 of 2005-06). House of Commons Library Research Paper 06/06
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