Research Briefing
Civil Service Recruitment: Heads of Departments
This briefing sets out the current rules for recruitment to the heads of department roles in the Civil Service.
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Research Briefing
Fuel Poverty Statistics in England – Lookup tool
An Excel tool allowing Fuel Poverty Statistics for Constituencies, Local Authorities and Regions in England to be automatically retrieved, and presented.
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Research Briefing
Western Sahara
Western Sahara is the largest non-self governing territory in the world, according to the UN, and there are tens of thousands of refugees living in refugee camps in Algeria
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Research Briefing
The Space Industry Bill 2017-2019
This briefing paper provides an analysis of the Space Industry Bill 2017-2019. The paper provides an overview of the provisions in the Bill and the debate and amendments made during the House of Lords stages and Commons Committee stage.
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Research Briefing
Child support: when a non-resident parent lives abroad – withdrawn
Please note that this briefing paper has been withdrawn, and replaced by CBP7775, Child maintenance: cases when someone lives overseas (England & Wales).
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Research Briefing
Airspace change and modernisation
This paper looks at the structure and management of airspace in the UK and the wider international context. It explains how airspace functions at the moment and proposals to upgrade and improve it, including the EU Single European Sky programme and the UK’s Future Airspace Strategy.
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Research Briefing
Open Banking: banking but not as we know it?
This Paper outlines the potential impact of the combined open banking and new PSD2 Directive on UK banking which started in January 2018. It looks at new banking applications and potential improvements to the current account market as well as consumer protections.
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Research Briefing
Democratic Republic of Congo: January 2018 update
President Joseph Kabila has managed to extend his tenure as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo well beyond December 2016, when his mandate expired. New elections are now scheduled for December 2018, but some believe that he will find ways to delay them further.
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Research Briefing
Public spending: New debates in the House
This briefing discusses changes being made to the way debates on public spending in the House are allocated.
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Research Briefing
People claiming unemployment benefits by constituency, December 2017
This paper provides figures for the number of people claiming unemployment benefits (the “claimant count”) by parliamentary constituency, as well as a summary of the latest labour market statistics for the UK as a whole.
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Research Briefing
Widening participation strategy in higher education in England
This House of Commons briefing paper gives an overview of the Government's policy on widening participation in higher education. It also outlines widening participation strategies and statistics, discusses evaluation of activities and raises current issues.
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Research Briefing
Pakistan: January 2018 update
National elections are due to be held in Pakistan in mid-2018. It will inevitably be a testing year for the country’s still-fragile democracy.
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Research Briefing
Broadband coverage and speeds: local statistics, 2017
This briefing is superseded. Please see below for up to date data.
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Research Briefing
The Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill 2017-19
The Bill will enable members of the regular armed forces to serve part-time or to restrict the amount of time they spend separated from their normal place of work.
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