Research Briefing
Sources of Statistics: Public Finances
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on public finance.
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Research Briefing
Sources of Statistics: Growth and Output
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on economic growth and output.
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Research Briefing
Sources of Statistics: Labour Market
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on the UK labour market.
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Research Briefing
Sources of Statistics: Inflation and Prices
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on inflation and prices.
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Research Briefing
Sources of Statistics: Interest Rates, Banking and Finance
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on interest rates, banking and finance.
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Research Briefing
Sources of social statistics: Education
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on education.
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Research Briefing
Sources of social statistics: Agriculture and Fisheries
This introductory guide provides sources of statistics on agriculture and fisheries.
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Research Briefing
Source of statistics: School level data
What data is published at a school level in the UK and where can I find it?
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Research Briefing
Arts Funding: Statistics
This note examines funding for the arts across Great Britain from 1955 to the present. The Arts Council of England (ACE), Creative Scotland (CS), Arts Council of Wales (ACW), as well as the historic Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB), receive individual examination.
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Research Briefing
Social Enterprise
This note describes the make up of what is often called the economic third sector or social enterprise.
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Research Briefing
The South China Sea dispute: July 2016 update
Southeast Asia is home to a range of complex territorial disputes, but the most intractable and combustible is the South China Sea dispute. Tensions between the rival countries have been on the rise in recent years. An Arbitral Tribunal constituted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea has ruled in favour of the Philippines in a case brought by that country against China.
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Research Briefing
Replacing the UK’s ‘Trident’ Nuclear Deterrent
In July 2016 the government sought parliament's approval for the replacement of the UK's nuclear deterrent.
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Research Briefing
Contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and private/occupational pensions
Contribution-based Jobseeker's Allowance is a benefit for unemployed people with a sufficient record of National Insurance contributions. It is not means-tested as such, but the amount of contribution-based JSA payable is reduced on a pound for pound basis by any regular income the claimant receives from an occupational or private pension in excess of £50 a week.
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Research Briefing
Personal Independence Payment and the March 2016 Budget
This House of Commons Library briefing paper looks at controversial proposals put forward at the March 2016 Budget to change the criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The proposals were subsequently abandoned and the Government said it would not be seeking to make alternative offsetting savings, or further savings from the welfare budget not already legislated for.
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Research Briefing
The Chilcot Inquiry: a reading list
A selection of Commons Library briefings and other material relevant to the Chilcot Inquiry
Total results (page 258 of 557)