Research Briefing
Lords Stages of the Care Bill: Social care provisions
This note provides an overview of developments relating to social care during the Care Bill’s Committee and Report Stages in the House of Lords.
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Research Briefing
National Insurance contributions : changes from April 2011
A number of changes to the structure and rates of National Insurance contributions took effect from April 2011. This note provides a summary.
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Research Briefing
Offender Rehabilitation Bill
This Bill would extend the mandatory supervision of offenders released from custodial sentences to provide that all offenders would be subject to at least 12 months of supervision in the community. It would also introduce new requirements, including drug appointments and residence requirements, which could be applied to offenders subject to such post-release supervision and offenders subject to community and suspended sentence orders.
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Research Briefing
Economic Indicators, November 2013
This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries. This month's article are Wants, needs and desires: What can households no longer afford? and A typical apprenticeship
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Research Briefing
Recent developments in Iran
Does the election of Hassan Rouhani in iran mean that the nuclear crisis will be resolved?
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Research Briefing
Reintroducing exit checks on passengers departing the UK
The Coalition Agreement included a commitment to reintroduce exit checks by the end of this Parliament in 2015. Home Office Ministers and senior officials have confirmed their belief that the deadline will be met.
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Research Briefing
The Regional Employer NI Holiday
In its first Budget in June 2010 the Coalition Government annunced a three year regional National Insurance contributions (NICs) 'holiday' for new employers. New businesses would be entitled to deduct up to £5,000 from their NICs bill, for each of the first ten employees they took on in their first year of business. New businesses in Greater London, the South East Region and the Eastern Region were excluded from the scheme. The NI Holiday lasted from 22 June 2010 to 5 September 2013. This note looks at the scheme's introduction and presents figures on its take-up.
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Research Briefing
The reformed health service, and commissioning arrangements in England
This note sets out the major reforms to the health service in England under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 including the new arrangements for commissioning services.
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Research Briefing
National Insurance Contributions Bill [Bill 112 of 2013-14]
This Bill would introduce the new Employment Allowance from April 2014 - a tax relief for employers paying National Insurance contributions on their employees' earnings, first announced in the 2013 Budget.
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Research Briefing
Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders
This Library paper provides information on the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme which was initiated under the Labour Government in 2002 and which operated until 2011.
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Research Briefing
Defence Reform Bill: Public Bill Committee Stage
This note looks at the discussion and amendments to the Bill made during the Public Bill Committee stage, and the wider debate on the Bill’s proposals, in particular the establishment of a Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) model for Defence Equipment and Support.
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Research Briefing
Reported road accident statistics
In 2012, there were 195,723 reported casualties on the roads of Great Britain, including 1,754 fatalities and 23,039 serious casualties. This Note provides a range of data relating to reported road accidents in Great Britain.
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Research Briefing
Civil service pensions – reforms to 2010
Provides an overview of the development of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme to 2010
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Research Briefing
Azerbaijan and the 2013 presidential election
Human rights abuses were widely reported to be increasing in the run up to the 2013 election in Azerbaijan
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Research Briefing
Nuclear power
On 21 October the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change announced that agreement had been reached with EDF to build the UK's first new nuclear power station since Sizewell B was commissioned in 1995.
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