Research Briefing
The UK Government’s Official History Programme
This In Focus article provides material in support of the Question for Short Debate in the House of Lords on the Government's Official History Programme.
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Research Briefing
Building a Health-Creating Society
This In Focus briefing provides some statistics relating to the impact of lifestyle risk factors on health and what this means for the NHS, as well as examining policy responses to these challenges as set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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Research Briefing
Measuring Full Employment
This In Focus note examines the concept of full employment and how to measure it, in light of the latest labour market statistics released in mid-October, showing the highest employment rate recorded since comparable records began in 1971.
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Research Briefing
Sustainable Development Goals: Parliamentary Perspectives
UN member states are expected to agree a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) at a high level summit in New York from 25 to 27 September 2015. This Library Note provides information on issues relating to the SDGs which have attracted parliamentary attention over recent months including the number of goals; universal health coverage; climate change; and implementation and monitoring.
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Research Briefing
Airports Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill [HL]
This In Focus briefing provides background information in advance of the second reading in the House of Lords of the Airports Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill [HL] on 19 June 2015.
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Research Briefing
Global Development Goals in 2015
On 11 December 2014, the House of Lords is scheduled to debate the following motion: “that this House takes note of the case for establishing new global development goals in 2015”.
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Research Briefing
Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill (HL Bill 47 of 2014–15)
The Social Responsibility, Action and Heroism Bill (the SARAH Bill) sets out various factors that the court “must have regard to” in determining the steps a defendant was required to take to meet a standard of care in claims for negligence or breach of statutory duty.
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Research Briefing
Deregulation Bill (HL Bill 33 of 2014–15)
The Deregulation Bill is a wide-ranging bill that is intended to remove or reduce regulatory burdens on businesses, civil society, individuals, public sector bodies and the taxpayer across a number of policy areas including: general and specific areas of business, companies and insolvency, the use of land, housing, transport, communications, the environment, education and training, entertainment, public authorities and the administration of justice.
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Research Briefing
Hereditary Peers in the House of Lords: 1999 to 2014
The House of Lords Act 1999 ended the centuries-old linkage between the hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords. The majority of hereditary Peers left the House of Lords in November 1999, but under a compromise arrangement, 92 of their number, known as ‘excepted’ hereditary Peers still sit in the House today.
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Research Briefing
Water Bill
The Water Bill would introduce greater competition in the water sector by allowing non-household customers to switch their water and sewerage supplier (retail competition) and by allowing new entrants to the water market to provide new sources of water or sewerage treatment services (upstream competition).
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Research Briefing
Defence Reform Bill
This Note provides background information on the Defence Reform Bill, which is due to have its second reading in the House of Lords on 10 December 2013.
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Research Briefing
Debate on 7 November: The Armed Forces and Legal Challenge
This Note looks at some of the issues raised by legal challenges to the Armed Forces.
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Research Briefing
Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill (HL Bill 50 of 2013–4)
This Note provides background reading on the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, which is due to have its second reading in the House of Lords on 22 October 2013.
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Research Briefing
Energy Bill (HL Bill 30 of 2013-14)
The Energy Bill is intended to establish a framework for delivering secure, affordable and low-carbon energy. This Library Note provides background information for the second reading of the Bill in the House of Lords on 18 June 2013.
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Research Briefing
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill (HL Bill 78 of 2012-13)
The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill implements an announcement by the Chancellor in the 2012 Autumn Statement that increases in certain working-age welfare benefits and tax credits would be limited to 1 percent, rather than increasing them in line with inflation. This Library Note is intended to provide background information in advance of the Bill’s second reading in the House of Lords on 11 February 2013.
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