Research Briefing
A Private Member's Bill introduced by Barry Gardiner MP which would reform employment law on so-called "fire and rehire" practices. Its Second Reading debate is scheduled for Friday 22 October 2021.
Research Briefing
Cash remains a vital payment method for more vulnerable people, but its wider use is in decline. How will Government and industry protect access to cash? An snapshot of data and policy developments in 2021. For more recent developments, see The future of local banking services and access to cash (CBP-9453).
Research Briefing
Briefing on the Education Employment (Accompaniment to Hearings) Bill
Research Briefing
This briefing provides answers to frequently asked questions on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. It covers the rules that apply from 1 November 2020. It also contains a discussion of excluded workers and furlough fraud.
Insight
What is the hypothetical effect of reintroducing a means-tested grant for undergraduates, of up to £3,000 a year.
Insight
A 35 year loan term could cut the cost of loans to the taxpayer by £1.5 billion, and a 10% repayment rate could cut the cost by £0.7 billion.
Insight
Reducing the fee cap for undergraduates to £7,500 per year would mainly benefit higher earning borrowers, particularly men.
Insight
A hypothetical cutting of the threshold to £25,000 would result in middle earners having the largest absolute increase in repayments of any income group.
Insight
A hypothetical 1 percentage point (ppt) increase would lead to higher repayments from richer graduates (borrowers), mainly men, in their 40s and 50s.
Insight
How do graduates (borrowers) pay back their undergraduate loans and how does it differs depending on their earnings?
Research Briefing
On Tuesday 21 September there will be an Opposition Day Debate on the "Effect of Government policy on the finances of working people"
Debate Pack
A Westminster Hall debate on a petition relating to ethnicity pay gap reporting is scheduled for Monday 20 September 2021, from 4:30-7:30pm. The motion for debate is: "That this House has considered e-petition 300105 relating to ethnicity pay gap reporting". The subject for this debate was determined by the Petitions Committee and Elliot Colburn MP will open the debate.
Research Briefing
What principles should shape the tax system? This briefing paper examines what can be learnt from research and policy.
Research Briefing
Public spending and taxation in Scotland was a hotly debated issue in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum, and has remained so since. A range of statistics exist on the subject: here we look at what these say and how they are measured.
Debate Pack
The Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Bill 2019-21 implements a temporary increase in the stamp duty land tax nil rate band, announced by the Government on 8 July 2020. The Bill completed all of its stages in the Commons on 13 July, and this legislation received Royal Assent on 22 July.
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