The UK Overseas Territories and their Governors
The UK has 14 Overseas Territories. The paper describes the role of UK-appointed Governors to make law and policy on reserved topics, such as external affairs.
International affairs and defence: Parliamentary debates and statements in the 2021-22 session
This paper provides details and links for ministerial statements, urgent questions and parliamentary debates (from both Houses of Parliament) that cover international affairs and defence.
Will the UK impose direct rule in the British Virgin Islands?
Alleged corruption has been uncovered in the British Virgin Islands, an Overseas Territory. The UK is considering whether to impose direct rule to drive reform.
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Insight
Same-sex marriage in the UK’s Overseas Territories
The UK Privy Council ruled the constitutions of the Cayman Islands and Bermuda do not provide the right for same-sex marriage. What is the situation in other UK Overseas Territories?
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Research Briefing
The Crown and the constitution
A briefing paper on the constitutional aspects of The Crown
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Research Briefing
The UK’s Overseas Territories and sanctions against Russia
The UK has imposed sanctions against Russia. This paper describes how these sanctions apply in the UK's Overseas Territories.
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Research Briefing
Proscribed Terrorist Organisations
This paper examines the regime for proscribing organisations under the Terrorism Act 2000. It explains the criteria that must be met for proscription, the associated criminal offences, and the process for deproscription. It also considers recently proscribed organisations, and some criticisms of the regime.
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Research Briefing
The UK Overseas Territories: Climate change and biodiversity
The natural environments of the Overseas Territories are of global significance. This paper describes UK support to help them adapt to climate change.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: UK support to the Overseas Territories
There are 14 British Overseas Territories across the globe with a total population of 260,000. The Territories differ greatly in their level of economic and social development and their population size. Since March 2020 the UK Government has been working with the Overseas Territories to ensure that they receive the help they need to manage outbreaks of Covid-19.
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Research Briefing
International affairs and defence: Parliamentary debates and statements in the 2019-21 session
This paper provides details and links for ministerial statements and parliamentary debates (from both Houses of Parliament) that cover international affairs and defence.
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Research Briefing
Integrated Review 2021
This landing page features a new series of Commons Library briefings on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, and the subsequent Defence Command Paper, which were both published in March 2021.
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Research Briefing
Integrated Review 2021: Summary
The Government published its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy: Global Britain in a Competitive Age, on 16 March 2021. Billed as the biggest review of the UK's defence and security since the end of the Cold War, it sets out the UK's approach to the expected challenges of the next decade.
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Research Briefing
Disputes over the British Indian Ocean Territory: February 2021 update
This briefing describes the main developments, since mid-2013, in long-running disputes over the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), including reaction to the January 2021 ruling by the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in a dispute between Mauritius and Maldives over the delimitation of their maritime boundaries.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Britons travelling abroad
The FCO has advised against all non-essential global travel and has urged Britons travelling abroad to return to the UK as soon as possible. MPs have questioned the government's response. Here we look at what the FCO has done to help British travellers return home and reaction from MPs and the media. The paper provides information on how to access FCO travel advice.
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Research Briefing
Brexit: a reading list of post-EU Referendum publications by Parliament and the Devolved Assemblies
This reading list brings together briefings on Brexit by the Parliamentary libraries and the Devolved Assembly research services with reports by Parliamentary and Devolved Assembly committees following the result of the EU Referendum on 23 June 2016.
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