Research Briefing
Flood and Water Management Bill: Committee Stage Report
This is a report on the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Flood and Water Management Bill. It complements Research Paper 09/91 prepared for the Commons Second Reading.
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Research Briefing
Co-operative & Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill [HL] Bill No. 50
The Bill requires new industrial and provident societies (other than credit unions) to be registered as co-operative or community benefit societies, re-names the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, and applies the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 to industrial and provident societies. The Bill also gives the Treasury powers to apply company law on the investigation of companies, company names and dissolution and restoration to the register, to industrial and provident societies, and to make provisions for credit unions corresponding to any provisions applying to building societies.
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Research Briefing
Turkey’s energy politics
Turkey and its relations with its gas-rich neighbouring countries play a predominant role in the future of European energy security. Turkey hopes to use this as leverage in its aspirations to join the European Union. The array of Eurasian gas pipeline projects
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Research Briefing
Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill [Bill 19 of 2009-10]
The Bill seeks to create a duty on sunbed businesses to prevent use of sunbeds by under-18s, to provide for local authority enforcement of this duty, and to give Ministers powers to make regulations imposing further conditions on commercial sunbed use.
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Research Briefing
Northern Ireland- political developments October 2009 to January 2010
This Note gives an update on political events in Northern Ireland from October 2009 to January 2010.
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Research Briefing
Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants Etc.) Bill Bill 15 of 2009/10
The main purpose of the Bill is to offer protection to tenants of rental properties whose landlord has both defaulted on his mortgage and not notified his lender that the property was being let (an 'unauthorised tenancy'). The Bill gives courts power to postpone the delivery of a possession order, and to stay or suspend the execution of an existing possession order. It also ensures the tenant is given notice of a possession order before its execution.
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Research Briefing
Support for domestic energy users
This note sets out financial support available to domestic energy consumers, including grants for central heating, insulation, microgeneration equipment and social security measures. It also explains how to seek advice or information about gas and electricity problems from Consumer Direct and the Energy Ombudsman.
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Research Briefing
Establishment of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons
On 20 July 2009, the day before it rose for the summer recess, the House of Commons agreed to establish the 18-member Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons. This note outlines the evolution of the Committee's terms of reference in addition to discussing the Committee's report, published on 24 November 2009.
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Research Briefing
Unemployment by constituency, December 2009
This paper shows the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance recorded as resident in each constituency in the United Kingdom in December 2009, together with comparisons with the levels in December 2008 and December 1997. The paper also presents residence-based unemployment rates for all 646 constituencies in the United Kingdom. It includes maps of unemployment rates by constituency and an annual percentage change map.
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Research Briefing
Financial Services Bill : Committee Stage Report
This is a report on the Committee Stage of the Bill. The Bill creates a Council for Financial Stability to co-ordinate the responsibilities and action of the Bank of England, Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Treasury with respect to financial stability. It also provides for collective consumer legal action to be taken in cases of multiple claimants against financial companies. The key debate at Committee Stage was on the structure of the regulatory system and the establishment of the Council for Financial Stability. One Government amendment was made to the Bill, which emphasised that the Bill had no retrospective impact upon executive remuneration contracts.
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Research Briefing
Paternity pay and parental leave
This note gives an overview of the rules and entitlements relating to paternity pay and parental leave as well as information about some proposals to extend the scheme.
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Research Briefing
Sea Bass Fishing and Dolphins
This note describes the problem of dolphin by-catch in the sea bass fishery
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Research Briefing
Youth crime and punishment in England and Wales
This note summarises the statistics relating to the youth criminal justice system in England and Wales.
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