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With a Housing White Paper around the corner, we’ve published a briefing paper that considers some current issues with housing supply and how they might be tackled. Here’s what you need to know about housing supply in England in five charts. Are we building enough houses? ‘Enough’ is a tricky concept to measure because it
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This Bill is essentially intended to update the law in relation to the production and surrender of driving licences, making changes principally to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 and to the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995, with consequential adjustment of other statutes affected.
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Today the Supreme Court ruled, by a majority of 8 to 3, that the Government cannot legally use prerogative powers to trigger Article 50. The judgment rejected the Government’s appeal against the November 2016 High Court ruling, and stated that Ministers “require the authority of primary legislation” in order to give the Article 50 notice.
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This Commons Library Briefing Paper provides background to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (Amendment) Bill 2016-17, and related issues.
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A Commons Library Briefing on the creation of the Green Investment Bank by the Government and the ongoing debate around its proposed privatisation.
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Over the last decade Russia has been implementing an extensive rearmament programme. Its aims are considered to be ambitious within the context of Russia's economic situation and the status of its domestic military-industrial base. What has been achieved thus far, and is the rearmament programme likely to realise its aims by 2020?
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How much information does the Government give Parliament about its position in advance of treaty negotiations? Is it bound to provide Parliament with information on its 'red lines' and strategies? This note looks at some past examples of White and Green Papers ahead of treaty negotiations.
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This Commons Library Briefing Paper provides background and analysis of the Local Government Finance Bill 2016-17.
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This briefing is an exploratory analysis of trends – drawing on the views of selected experts – in the domestic politics and foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China.
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This briefing paper outlines the new funding settlement for NHS contractors providing services under the community pharmacy contractual framework, announced on 20 October 2016. Compared to 2015/16 levels, the funding settlement includes a reduction of 4% in 2016/17 and a further 3.4% in 2017/18.
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This paper contains claimant count figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest labour market statistics for the UK as a whole.
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The Library publishes data on the number of people claiming unemployment benefits and associated ‘claimant rates’ for parliamentary constituencies in our monthly Unemployment by Constituency briefing paper.
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Today the Prime Minister, Theresa May, set out her vision for Brexit in her Lancaster House speech. This included some clarification on Parliament’s role. “And when it comes to Parliament, there is one other way in which I would like to provide certainty. I can confirm today that the Government will put the final deal
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The Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Act 2017 makes a number of amendments to the legislation which underpins the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS), introduced in April 2013. The purpose of these changes is to simplify the scheme and extend access to smaller and newer charities. The Act also makes a few technical amendments to the legislation which establishes Tax-Free Childcare, the Government’s scheme to support parents’ childcare costs, scheduled to be rolled out from early 2017.
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This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the process of withdrawing from the EU under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. There could be a complex and difficult negotiation lasting two years or more, or the UK could leave without settling its exit terms or its future relationship with the EU.
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