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Debate Pack
Personal Injury Fraud
A Westminster Hall debate on personal injury fraud has been scheduled for Wednesday 18 November 2015 at 1430hrs. The member in charge of the debate is Karl McCartney.
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Research Briefing
Equitable Life: compensation scheme
This note is designed to summarise the processes and principles behind the Equitable Life compensation scheme. It is designed to help constituents who wish to know what they might expect and what they have to do if they believe that they are due compensation.
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Research Briefing
The future of British banking and RBS
A Backbench Business Committee debate will focus on the UK Government's policy to sell off its share holdings in the Royal Bank of Scotland acquired as part of the rescue of the bank following the financial crash. The debate is also set to look at alternative bank structures designed to improve lending to industry and the economy.
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Research Briefing
Immigration Bill 2015-16
The Immigration Bill 2015-16 is due to have its second reading in the Commons on 13 October.
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Research Briefing
The Big Society Bank/Capital and its role in society
This note sets out the establishment of the Big Society Bank and its emergence and connections to the dormant bank accounts legislation. It is now called the Big Society Capital Group.
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Research Briefing
Motor Insurers’ Bureau: untraced and uninsured drivers
Motor Insurers' Bureau: untraced and uninsured drivers. By Louise Butcher & Tim Edmonds. SN/BT/1997.
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Research Briefing
European banking union
This note brings together the main documents and developments regarding the EU's pan-Community supervisory and recovery mechanism for members’ banking sectors - the Banking Union. Significant new measures were approved of in December 2013 it faces a severe test in respect to Greece in 2015..
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Research Briefing
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid)
This note outlines the development of EU legislation designed to improve the Single Market in equity investments through the MiFID, and now MiFID II, Directives.
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Research Briefing
Key Issues for the 2015 Parliament
This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.
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Research Briefing
Five years of bank reform
This Paper brings together, in an abbreviated way, the main features of reform and regulatory activity affecting (particularly) banking to have taken place under the Coalition Government. It describes legislation and provides links to reports and studies by the principal regulatory bodies.
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Research Briefing
Banking Crises: lessons from Sweden and Norway
This note brings together narratives of two banking crises in Sweden and Norway in the early 1990s and describes the remedial action taken by central governments.
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Research Briefing
Insurance Bill [HL]
This is latest in a series of technical legislative measures with the broad remit of updating insurance statute law.
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Research Briefing
Credit Unions (2015)
This briefing covers the UK credit union landscape and policy development up to 2015. This briefing has been superseded by a new briefing CBP-10306.
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Research Briefing
Mutuals Deferred Shares Bill
This Bill is a government-supported Private Members’ Bill which started in the Lords.
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