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This Note sets out why the date of the 2014 European Parliamentary elections has been changed and gives details of the consultation about moving the date of the local elections in England. It also includes a list of those local authorities which are holding elections in 2014.
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Winter is a challenging time for health services and particularly for Accident and Emergency departments. Last winter over 350 A&E departments were, at some point, too full to take patients and close to 100,000 ambulances waited over 30 minutes outside A&E hospitals to deliver patients requiring care. These problems aren’t caused by more people attending
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The Mesothelioma Bill [HL] establishes a new Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme to make payments to people with diffuse mesothelioma who were exposed to asbestos either negligently or in breach of statutory duty by an employer, and who are unable to bring a claim for damages against the employer or an Employers’ Liability (EL) insurer.
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This briefing describes key areas of debate during the Water Bill’s Committee Stage. The briefing does not cover all amendments or discussions.
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This note summarises the main features proposed by the Vickers Commission to reform the UK banking market.
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Summary of statistics on the extent and nature of domestic violence from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).
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The Government has published an Action Plan setting out its intention to see radio broadcasting switch from analogue to digital audio broadcasting (“DAB”). The target date, which the industry considers is achievable and the Government says it would support, is 2015.
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The aim of this Private Member’s Bill is to assist long leaseholders of flats who are unable to sign the legal notices necessary to trigger an individual lease renewal or the collective enfranchisement process. This note provides background to the Bill and its purpose.
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What action has the EU taken to enforce freedom of movement throughout the EU?
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There has been a lot of controversy about the Prawer-Begin plan to relocate some of Israel’s semi-nomadic Bedouin population to approved towns, with the UN Human Rights Council saying that it violates Bedouin rights and is discriminatory. In December it was announced that the bill would be substantially amended after opposition from both left- and right-wing politicians in the Knesset.
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On 18 December 2013, the 2014/15 Local Government Finance Settlement was announced for consultation. Settlement funding assessments and spending power of local authorities will fall in 2014/15 by 9.4% and 2.9% respectively.
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In the 2013 Autumn Statement the Government announced they would increase the number of student places at publicly funded higher education institutions by 30,000 in 2013-14 and remove the cap on student numbers entirely by 2015-16; it is estimated that this will create 60,000 more student places. The Government stated that the rationale for the
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This note provides sources of information including a selection of journal articles and websites on education systems in a selection of foreign countries.
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On 17 December 2013, Chancellor Angela Merkel formally begins another ‘grand coalition’ between her centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left SPD. Germany’s political system lends itself to coalition governments, both centrally and regionally. But despite often close cooperation between the main parties, grand coalitions between right and left are rare at the highest level.
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