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This note gives a brief summary of statistics on aggregate tuition fee liability/payment under the current and previous systems; the impact on student numbers, payment by student characteristics and the contribution of tuition fees to higher education funding. Some statistics cover England and Wales, although more recent data on variable fees and the post 2012 system is for England only.
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Tables-based paper, outlining levels of public spending on transport by region and nation of the UK
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On 20 February the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill will be debated in the House of Commons for the first time. The Bill has proved more contentious than expected.
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This note charts successive phases of UK money laundering regulations and considers their benefits and burdens..
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Please note that this briefing paper has been withdrawn, and replaced by CBP8003, Social care: care home market – structure, issues, and cross-subsidisation (England).
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This House of Commons Library briefing paper considers the current structure of the care home market in England, as well as issues facing the sector and how private clients (“self-funders”) tend to pay more than local authority funded residents (known as “cross-subsidisation”). A link to the full report in pdf format can be found at the bottom of this page.
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This briefing discusses the procedure for revising Government spending plans in-year. It summarises the changes the Government proposes to Departmental budgets in 2017-18.
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Trends seen throughout 2017 have continued in the economic data published early in 2018: moderate GDP growth, high employment, low unemployment, and the rate of inflation exceeding earnings growth. As expected, at the beginning of February the Bank of England kept interest rates unchanged, although they warned that monetary policy may need to be tightened
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The price of domestic gas and electricity has been relatively stable over the past seven years after increasing steadily through 2000-2008. The price of gas has fallen somewhat in recent years, but electricity prices have risen. The cost of heating oil has fallen over the last three years with particularly large falls to 2016 before a partial rebound in the most recent year.
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Since the UK Government began negotiations over the withdrawal agreement under Article 50, questions have been raised about how Parliament will approve and implement the final agreement. The Government’s stated position has long been that Parliament will have the opportunity to approve the final agreement through a motion “to be voted on by both Houses
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Analysis of the latest key UK and international economic indicators.
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2018 sees several important centenaries in the UK: The end of WW1, the extension of the franchise to some women, and all men gaining the vote for the first time. 100 years on from the Representation of the People Act, Parliament is celebrating with the Vote 100 Programme. Here we look at the struggle for
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This briefing sets out the current rules for recruitment to the heads of department roles in the Civil Service.
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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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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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