Research Briefing
Electorate statistics 2009
This Note provides data on the number of electors and attainers in each parliamentary constituency as at 1 December 2009, published by the Office for National Statistics on 26 February 2010.
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Research Briefing
Universal jurisdiction
The UK has universal jurisdiction under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (and other legislation) for a limited number of serious international crimes. It also has an obligation under international law to prosecute or extradite those suspected of war crimes or torture anywhere in the world. There are few such prosecutions in the UK but arrest warrants have been sought for private prosecutions. The Government is consulting on a change to the law on private prosecutions for universal jurisdiction offences, and the UN is conducting a review of the scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction.
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Research Briefing
Railways: Railtrack, 1994-2002
The Note gives a history of Railtrack from when it was set up in 1994 to 2002 when it emerged from administration.
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Research Briefing
EU Legislation
This Note considers the different types of EU legislative instruments and their implementation requirements. It also gives figures for EU laws adopted since 1980 and repealed since 1997, as well as an estimate of the proportion of UK secondary legislation made under the ECA to implement EU obligations.
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Research Briefing
Trends in crime since 1997
This note looks at both of these sources, briefly explaining their advantages and disadvantages. The note concludes by looking at possible adjustments that can be made to the recorded crime series to estimate trends since 1997 - and the limitations of such estimates.
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Research Briefing
Transport Policy in 2010: a rough guide
This paper gives an overview of transport policy in the UK in 2010. It examines a range of issues related to transport policy, including policy-makers, spending on and sources of funding for transport, the transport policy of the main political parties, and the challenges in formulating transport policy in 2010.
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Research Briefing
OP sheep dip
This note discusses sheep farmers concerns that their health has been damaged by using organophosphate sheep dips
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Research Briefing
Railways: privatisation, 1987-1996
This note describes the structure of the rail industry following privatisation by the Railways Act 1993. It is intended to give a factual account and only briefly touches on the issues involved in reaching decisions about the form of privatisation chosen or its shortcomings.
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Research Briefing
The Hillsborough Agreement
This note outlines the background to, content of, and moves to implement the agreement reached at Hillsborough Castle between the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein on 4 February 2010. The full text of the Agreement is included as an appendix to the note.
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Research Briefing
European Parliament Members’ expenses and allowances
This Note looks at the background to recent reform of the European Parliament expenses and allowances system. It provides information on the current expenses regime, with links to political party pledges and declarations of interest.
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Research Briefing
Unemployment by constituency, February 2010
This paper shows the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance recorded as resident in each constituency in the United Kingdom in February 2010, together with comparisons with the levels in February 2009 and February 1997. Residence-based unemployment rates are given for all 646 constituencies in the United Kingdom. The paper includes unemployment rates by constituency maps and an annual percentage change map, as well as a summary of the latest labour market data.
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Research Briefing
Railways: Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996
This Note gives the background to the 1996 Act which legislated for the building of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; details on the scheme post-1996 can be found iin SN/BT/267.
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Research Briefing
Railways: West Coast Main Line
This Note provides background to the WCML upgrade project completed in December 2008.
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Research Briefing
Proposals for a Petitions Committee for the House of Commons
This note outlines the current petitions process in the House of Commons. It then sets out the findings of the Procedure Committee's reports on petitions and the recommendations of the Committee on Reform of the House of Commons. Lastly it considers the operation of petitions committees in the Scottish Parliament and the House of Representatives in Australia.
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