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Serious Crime Bill

Thursday, 18 December, 2014

This Bill would make changes aimed to strengthen the law on the recovery of the proceeds of crime. It would make amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to update existing offences. It would also provide for a new offence of participating in the activities of an organised crime group and make changes to Serious Crime Prevention Orders and gang injunctions. The Bill would provide for the seizure and forfeiture of substances used as drug-cutting agents. It would also amend the offence of child cruelty, create a new offence relating to the possession of ‘paedophile manuals’ and amend the law on Female Genital Mutilation. The Bill would create a new offence of unauthorised possession of a knife or other offensive weapon in prison and confer extra-territorial jurisdiction on the courts in respect of certain terrorism offences.
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In Brief: Progress against ISIS December 2014

Thursday, 18 December, 2014

A brief summary of the progress of the military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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Bahrain and the UK: 2014 controversies

Thursday, 18 December, 2014

The UK’s political and security relationship with Bahrain is disputed even though the protests that began in 2011 are subsiding. This briefing summarises the controversies
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Unemployment by Constituency December 2014

Wednesday, 17 December, 2014

This paper contains labour market figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest national and regional statistics.
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Unemployment by Constituency: changes in methodology, 2014

Wednesday, 17 December, 2014

The Library has updated the methodology used to calculate the headline count and rate of unemployed claimants shown in the monthly Unemployment by Constituency research paper. This note provides details of the changes.
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- Work and incomes
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The UK in the European Union: in brief

Monday, 15 December, 2014

What has happended in the European Economic Community since the UK joined in 1973?
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Pension Schemes Bill 2014-15 – House of Commons stages

Thursday, 11 December, 2014

A guide to debate in the House of Commons on a Bill to provide a new legislative framework for private pensions and make changes relating to the flexibilities for defined contribution pension savers to be introduced from April 2015
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- Pensions
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Small businesses and the UK economy

Tuesday, 09 December, 2014

This note presents a statistical analysis of small businesses in the UK, the role of small businesses in international trade, small businesses and GDP, small businesses and tax receipts and information on government policy towards small businesses.
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Main Treaty amendments since the UK joined the EEC

Tuesday, 09 December, 2014

Many argue that the EU is a far cry from what the UK signed up to in 1973. This note looks at the major Treaty changes since the UK joined the EEC in 1973.
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National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill [Bill 18 of 2014-15]

Friday, 05 December, 2014

This Library briefing paper provides information on the National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill, which received its Second Reading on 21 November 2014. The Bill seeks to make changes to a number of provisions in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 relating to: ministerial responsibility for the NHS, competition and procurement policy, and the limits set on NHS hospitals' private income. The Bill also includes measures intended to exempt the NHS from the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Treaty.
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- Health services
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Protocol No.15 to the European Convention on Human Rights: subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation

Thursday, 04 December, 2014

This note looks briefly at the Brighton reform conference in 2012 and reforms implemented before and since. It considers two of the reforms in Protocol 15 that the UK Government particularly wanted, in the light of the European Court of Human Rights judgments in Hirst and Abu Qatada, concerning subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation.
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Infrastructure Bill [HL]

Thursday, 04 December, 2014

This is a ‘portmanteau’ bill, covering a number of separate but related areas.
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Autumn Statement 2014: a summary

Wednesday, 03 December, 2014

This note provides a summary of the 2014 Autumn Statement, including changes to Stamp Duty, and the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) latest economic and fiscal forecasts.
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Iran, the nuclear negotiations and relations with the UK

Wednesday, 03 December, 2014

How is the thaw in relations between Iran and the UK going?
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Economic Indicators, December 2014

Tuesday, 02 December, 2014

This paper features analysis of the latest UK and international economic indicators.

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