Research Briefing
In Brief: Progress against ISIS December 2014
A brief summary of the progress of the military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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Research Briefing
Bahrain and the UK: 2014 controversies
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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Research Briefing
Unemployment by Constituency 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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Research Briefing
How much is a pint of milk? Food and drink consumption, expenditure and costs in the UK
This afternoon’s Opposition Day debate on food banks and the cost of living promises to sustain focus upon the cost of food and drink in the UK. The debate follows publication of the All-Party Parliamentary Enquiry’s Feeding Britain report which, co-chaired by Rt Hon Frank Field MP and the Rt Revd Tim Thornton, examined hunger
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Research Briefing
Unemployment by Constituency: changes in methodology, 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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Research Briefing
The UK in the European Union: in brief
What has happended in the European Economic Community since the UK joined in 1973?
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Research Briefing
Pension Schemes Bill 2014-15 – House of Commons stages
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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Research Briefing
Small businesses and the UK economy
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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Research Briefing
Main Treaty amendments since the UK joined the EEC
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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Research Briefing
Public forest estate sell-off – what next?
Following the Government’s aborted plans to sell parts of the Public Forest Estate in 2010, it signalled its intention to establish, via primary legislation, a new public body to manage the forestry estate. No legislation has yet been forthcoming and environmental groups are concerned that this has left the nation’s forests unprotected. The introduction of
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Research Briefing
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill [Bill 18 of 2014-15]
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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Research Briefing
Protocol No.15 to the European Convention on Human Rights: subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation
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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Research Briefing
Infrastructure Bill [HL]
This is a ‘portmanteau’ bill, covering a number of separate but related areas.
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Research Briefing
Autumn Statement 2014: a summary
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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Research Briefing
Iran, the nuclear negotiations and relations with the UK
How is the thaw in relations between Iran and the UK going?
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