Research Briefing
Post-Brexit immigration system proposals: responses from stakeholders
This reading list presents a selected snapshot of responses to the February 2020 Government policy statement on a new points-based system for immigration.
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Research Briefing
The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: process and issues
The UK and EU begin negotiations over their future relationship this week. This paper outlines the UK and EU's objectives, the main issues of contention and the process being followed in the negotiations
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Research Briefing
Syria: the Idlib crisis and ISIS
Military action around Idlib in north west Syria is threatening to force millions of people from their homes and cause a humanitarian catastrophe
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Research Briefing
Student Accommodation FAQs
How many students live away from home? How expensive is student accommodation? Why have rents increased? Do recent problems with accommodation represent a 'crisis'? What proposals are there to improve the situation?
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Research Briefing
Insecure work: the Taylor Review and the Good Work Plan
This Commons briefing paper tracks the recommendations made in the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices and the Government's response in the Good Work Plan.
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Research Briefing
Children: parental alienation and the role of Cafcass (England)
This House of Commons Library briefing considers how Cafcass deals with the issue of parental alienation when it arises, which can affect contact and residence cases before the courts. New Cafcass guidance was issued in October 2018 to help identify when parental alienation has occurred. A link to the full report in pdf format can be found at the bottom of this page.
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Research Briefing
Economic Indicators, February 2020
Analysis of the latest UK and international economic indicators
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Research Briefing
Revised Government spending plans for 2019/20
Details of the Supplementary Estimates for 2019/20, the Government's revised set of spending plans for each department, which will go before Parliament for approval on 2 March 2020.
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Research Briefing
EU Settlement Scheme
This briefing provides an overview of the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). The scheme has been introduced to allow EU, EEA and Swiss nationals, and their close family members, to apply to remain in the UK following its departure from the European Union.
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Research Briefing
Off-rolling in English schools
This Commons Library Briefing Paper provides an overview of the concerns that increasing numbers of children in England are being 'off-rolled' - being excluded or otherwise leaving school for reasons that do not serve their best interests
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Research Briefing
Pension integration (or ‘clawback’)
Looks at rules under which some occupational pensions have historically been adjusted to take account of the State Pension introduced in the late 1940s
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Research Briefing
Constitutional implications of the Withdrawal Agreement legislation
The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 at 11pm GMT with a ratified Withdrawal Agreement. The changes brought about by Brexit have been implemented predominantly through the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020. This briefing paper explains the constitutional and legal implications of those two Acts, taken together, and what it means for the next part of the Brexit process.
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Research Briefing
16-19 education funding in England since 2010
This House of Commons Library Briefing Paper provides a summary of how funding for 16-19 education in England has changed since 2010.
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Research Briefing
Islamic marriage and divorce in England and Wales
This Commons Library briefing paper considers Islamic marriage and divorce in England and Wales and calls which have been made for the law to be changed to require civil registration of all marriages
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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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