Research Briefing
Carers’ rights and benefits (England)
An overview of rights and benefits afforded to carers in law, covering local authority assessments, employment rights, benefits and protection from discrimination.
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Research Briefing
Iraq: calls for an inquiry and historical precedents
There were repeated calls for an inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq from 2003 until the announcement of the Chilcot Inquiry in 2009
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Research Briefing
New Psychoactive Substances
This briefing paper has been withdrawn. It has been replaced by the Library briefing on the Psychoactive Substance Bill 2015.
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Research Briefing
Scotland Bill 2015-16
The Commons Library's briefing note on the Scotland Bill 2015-16.
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Research Briefing
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid)
This note outlines the development of EU legislation designed to improve the Single Market in equity investments through the MiFID, and now MiFID II, Directives.
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Research Briefing
Scotland Bill: Welfare & Employment Support (Bill 3 of 2015-16)
This briefing provides detailed information on the welfare and employment support provisions in the Scotland Bill. The Bill is scheduled to receive its Second Reading on 8 June 2015. With the exception of a new power to top-up reserved benefits, there are no substantive differences between the welfare and employment provisions in the Bill and the previously published draft clauses.
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Research Briefing
European Union Referendum Bill 2015-16
The European Union Referendum Bill 2015-16 requires the holding of a referendum on the UK’s EU membership before the end of 2017. This paper provides information about the provisions in the Bill.
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Research Briefing
New powers for local government: early observations on the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill
The 2015 Government has moved quickly on the devolution of power to local authority areas, introducing the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill into the House of Lords on 29 May 2015. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has made clear that this Bill forms part of the Government’s stated intention to create a ‘Northern powerhouse’, rebalancing
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Research Briefing
Economic Indicators, June 2015
Analysis of the latest key UK and international economic indicators.
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Research Briefing
The African Great Lakes region: May 2015 election update
Term-limit blues? Controversy over presidential term-limits is a recurring theme in sub-Saharan Africa. And nowhere is this more so at the moment than in the African Great Lakes region, which comprises Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. When two terms are not enough… In Burundi, in mid-May President Jean-Pierre Nkurunziza narrowly
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Research Briefing
Pensions 2015
An overview of pension reform issues at the start of the 2015 Parliament
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Research Briefing
How much did the polls vary from the General Election result?
In the run up to polling day last Thursday, a large number of opinion polls were carried out, all aiming to estimate the public’s voting intention. The exact wording of the questions posed by polling companies varied, as did their approaches to weighting the responses, but in essence they all attempted to estimate the share
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Research Briefing
Freedom of speech and preventing extremism in UK higher education institutions
UK higher education institutions have a statutory duty to uphold freedom of speech in their institutions as far as is practical within the law. This duty has come under pressure recently from the Government’s Prevent Strategy and provisions in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. This note sets out legislation in this area and gives an overview of debate.
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Research Briefing
Regulating the web, the Open Internet and Net Neutrality
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, earlier this year warned that net neutrality—“a key element of the openness that underpins the Web and the broader Internet”—is under threat. And while internet activists cheered the announcement in February this year that the US telecommunications regulator had approved a plan to govern the internet
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