Research Briefing
Underage drinking
This note uses data from the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey to look at issues surrounding underage drinking.
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Research Briefing
Arms Exports to Israel
This note briefly examines the UK's arms export policy with respect to Israel, the value of the military goods that the UK has exported over the last ten years and provides a comparison to the United States which accounts for 94% of all arms exports to Israel, and the other EU Member States.
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Research Briefing
The Christmas Bonus and the associated 60 pound one-off payment for 2008-09
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on the Christmas Bonus and the associated 60 pound one-off payment for 2008-09, from 2009.
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Research Briefing
Tax credits and childcare costs
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on tax credits and childcare costs, from 2009.
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Research Briefing
Economic indicators, January 2009
This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries for selected indicators. [Indicator-only edition]
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Research Briefing
Saving Gateway Accounts Bill (Bill 3 of 2008-09)
This short Bill establishes a government subsidised savings scheme for people of working age on low incomes. The Saving Gateway has been trialled in several regions; the Bill establishes a scheme for the whole of the country.
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Research Briefing
The Future of Coalition Forces in Iraq
This note examines the legal basis for the ongoing presence of Coalition forces in Iraq, current troop commitments and plans for the future.
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Research Briefing
Draft Communications Data Bill
This note provides background information on the proposed draft Communications Data Bill which has yet to be published. It mentions reports that consideration is being given to a centralised database and some of the concerns these have given rise to. A government consultation on implementing, via secondary legislation, an EC Directive on data retention closed on 31 October 2008.
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Research Briefing
Official Secrecy
This Note sets out the historical background to the current laws on official secrecy. It also provides a brief summary of notable cases which have involved official information legislation.
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Research Briefing
EU trade preferences for developing countries: the GSP & ‘Everything But Arms’
The European Union offers developing countries unilateral preferential trading arrangements under its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), which is split into three parts: standard GSP, GSP+ and 'Everything But Arms'. A new GSP Regulation is to enter into force on 1 January 2009, running to the end of 2011. This note outlines the changes that have been made, providing a background and history to the GSP.
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Research Briefing
Business Rate Supplements Bill (Bill 2 of 2008-09)
The Bill gives legislative effect to the scheme outlined in Business rate supplements: a white paper (Cm 7230). This allows upper-tier local authorities, and the Greater London Authority, to levy a supplement on the business rate in order to fund local economic development projects. Businesses must be consulted and, in certain circumstances, balloted before a rate supplement can be introduced.
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Research Briefing
Progress on Enlargement at a Glance: 2008
This Note looks at the European Commission's latest progress report on EU candidate and potential candidate states.
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Research Briefing
The Lisbon Treaty: the European Council and prospects for Irish ratification
This Note looks at the discussions in Ireland, the European Union Institutions and other Member States about the prospects for Irish ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon. It considers the declarations on concessions agreed by the European Council on 11-12 December 2008 which are intended to facilitate Irish ratification in 2009.
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Research Briefing
Unemployment by constituency, November 2008
Unemployment by constituency, November 2008. House of Commons Library Research Paper 08/92. This paper shows the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance recorded as resident in each constituency in the United Kingdom in November 2008, together with comparisons with the levels in November 2007 and November 1997. This paper also presents residence-based unemployment rates for all 646 constituencies in the United Kingdom.
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Research Briefing
Political Parties and Elections Bill: Committee Stage Report
This is a report on the Committee Stage of the Political Parties and Elections Bill 2007-08 produced in response to a recommendation of the Modernisation Committee in its report on The Legislative Process (HC 1097, 2005-06). The Bill has been reintroduced as Bill 4 of 2008-09 and is awaiting a date for report stage in the Commons.
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