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Phase two of the Brexit negotiations has started. The EU and UK negotiators have expressed their views on the scope of and conditions for a transition or implementation period, in which the UK will not be a Member State but will continue to apply EU law.
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This House of Commons Library briefing paper looks at the Government’s announcements that postponed the introduction of funding reforms regarding how individuals pay for social care, including a more generous means-test and a cap on lifetime social care costs. A link to the full report in pdf format can be found at the bottom of this page.
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The minimum wage is one of the fundamental employment rights in the UK. It was introduced in 1999 and was named the ‘most successful government policy of the past 30 years’ in a poll of 159 members of the Political Studies Association in 2010. The level of the minimum wage has risen rapidly in the
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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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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Please note that this briefing paper has been withdrawn, and replaced by CBP8003, Social care: care home market – structure, issues, and cross-subsidisation (England).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.
Economic updates,Research Briefing
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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