Research Briefing
Rural housing: A reading list
People living in rural areas can face particular housing challenges. This paper provides a selection of publications and articles that examine these challenges and proposals to address them.
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Research Briefing
The coronavirus timeline: Measures taken by the House of Commons
The coronavirus timeline sets out the Commons’ response to the pandemic, including key ‘lock down’ dates and changes to the way parliamentarians worked. It includes links to the relevant debates in Hansard, Speaker’s Statements, Procedure Committee reports, the ‘Members’ Guide to hybrid proceedings’ and correspondence on proceedings during the pandemic.
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Research Briefing
UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Agreement in Principle
The UK has reached a trade agreement with Australia. This briefing looks at what it covers, its effects on agriculture and how Parliament will scrutinise it.
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Research Briefing
Afghanistan: Development, UK aid and the future
Coalition forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan. The paper describes how aid has been used since 2001, progress made, and future challenges and commitments.
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Research Briefing
Elections Bill 2021-22
The second reading debate on the Elections bill has been scheduled for 7 September 2021.
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Research Briefing
Afghanistan 2021: Key resources for UK nationals and Afghans
This page was last updated on 1 September 2021- the Commons Library Briefing UK immigration routes for Afghan nationals provides more recent updates.
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Research Briefing
Regulating electric scooters (e-scooters)
This briefing paper provides an overview of the existing legal framework for electric scooters (e-scooters). It also analyses the arguments for and against legalising e-scooters on UK roads, drawing on the limited evidence from other countries and cities that have sanctioned their use.
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Research Briefing
Early intervention: policy and provision
This House of Commons Library briefing analyses early intervention policies aimed at parents and children from conception to age five, covering health, education, social development and financial benefits. This paper also looks at broader arguments around early intervention as a policy approach.
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Research Briefing
Tax Relief for Childcare
This note discusses the current, limited, tax relief given for employer-supported childcare, and the case that has been made for wider relief on these costs.
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Research Briefing
Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs)
This briefing paper provides an overview of Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs). It includes information on who is eligible to start an IVA; the IVA process; and the advantages and disadvantages of an IVA.
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Research Briefing
Air passenger duty: recent debates & reform
This paper looks at the recent debate on taxing aviation, in the context of concerns about the structure of air passenger duty (APD), the rates of tax, earlier reforms to APD in the 2014 Budget, and the current Government's consultation on aviation tax launched in March 2021. The development of APD since its introduction is set out in two other Commons Briefing papers (CBP413 & CBP6426).
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Research Briefing
Police powers: detention and custody
This Commons Library briefing paper describes police detention powers and outlines a recent history of their reform. It also describes the police custody estate.
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Research Briefing
Housing costs in Universal Credit
The key differences between support with housing costs in Housing Benefit and Universal Credit.
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Research Briefing
Afghanistan: Fall of the Government and the transition of power
On 15 August 2021 the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Afghanistan's President, Ashraf Ghani, left the country and his Government collapsed. What are the implications, and will a Taliban government be recognised by the international community?
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Research Briefing
The rent safety net: changes since 2010
This briefing paper brings together details of the main changes to the rent safety net announced since 2010. It covers the savings achieved through changes to Housing Benefit and the Universal Credit housing costs element, as well as the impact of these policies, and the debate that surrounds them.
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