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The Payment by Results (PbR) approach to delivery of public services is not new and is not without controversy. This note looks at current and planned projects in rehabilitation, welfare to work, the NHS, children’s social services and with rough sleepers and with vulnerable young people.
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This paper contains labour market figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest national and regional statistics.
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This paper sets out the main changes to direct tax rates and allowances announced in the Budget on 20 March 2013. It lists the principal personal allowances which will be available against income tax in the tax year 2013/14, and it outlines the conditions necessary for eligibility for these allowances.
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On 12 February 2013 the Court of Appeal ruled that regulations underpinning some of the Government’s back to work schemes were unlawful and must be quashed. The Bill - which has retrospective effect - would remove the ability for individuals sanctioned for not participating in one of the schemes to challenge the sanction decision on the grounds that the regulations were invalid, or notices given to them were inadequate.
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This note summarises the main points of the 2013 Budget.
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This paper contains labour market figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest national and regional statistics.
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This note sets out the economic and public finance background to the 2013 Budget.
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In his 2007 Budget the then Chancellor Gordon Brown announced a series of changes to personal tax to take effect from 6 April 2008, including two major changes to income tax rates: the withdrawal of the 10% starting rate and a cut in the basic rate from 22% to 20%. Initially it was estimated that although 21 million households would be better off or no worse off as a result of these reforms, 5.3 million households would pay more in tax. This note looks at the reaction there was to this reform, and the Labour Government's approach after the 2007 Budget to compensate lower-income households who had lost out.
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This paper contains labour market figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest national and regional statistics.
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The Library has changed the methodology used to calculate the claimant rates shown in the monthly Unemployment by Constituency research paper, following the publication of new 2011 Census data for parliamentary constituencies. This note provides details of the changes.
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As of 1 October 2011, the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 abolished the DRA.
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The Children and Families Bill introduces a wide range of legislation concerning adoption and children in care, aspects of family justice law, special educational needs, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England, child care, statutory rights to leave and pay for parents and adopters, time off work for ante-natal care, and the right to request flexible working. This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading of the Bill.
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This note examines the judgment in the case of Eweida and Others v the United Kingdom, handed down by the European Court of Human Rights on 15 January 2013. The case considered the restrictions an employer may justifiably place on workers’ freedom to manifest their religion in the workplace.
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This paper contains labour market figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest national and regional statistics.
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This is an archived Commons Library briefing on constituency casework: tax credits, from 2013.
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