Research Briefing
Deregulation Bill: Committee Stage Report
The Bill proposes a range of measures in line with the Government’s aim to reduce regulatory burdens on businesses and public authorities.
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Research Briefing
Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013
This Act has strengthened the powers of social landlords to tackle tenants who sublet the whole of their dwellings for a profit.
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Research Briefing
High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill 2013-14
This paper has been prepared for the House of Commons Second Reading stage of the High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill, scheduled for 28 April.
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Research Briefing
Accident and Emergency Performance: England 2013/14
How many people attended accident and emergency departments in 2013/14? What was the pattern of A&E attendance across the year and across the country? How do NHS trusts compare on key performance metrics such as waiting times?
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Research Briefing
Food Banks and Food Poverty
The number of food banks in the UK has increased substantially in recent years. This note explains how food banks work, examines their growth and discusses possible contributing factors and policy developments.
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Research Briefing
Assessing A&E: attendance patterns and waiting times performance
The performance of the NHS, and of Accident and Emergency units in particular, is a perennial hot topic in UK political debate. The House of Commons Library has published a report on A&E attendance and performance for the year 2013/14. The report contains many interesting findings, several of which are counter-intuitive. In this post, Carl
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Research Briefing
Pensions: the statutory override and ‘protected persons’
Discusses the Government's consultation on whether to allow a limited 'statutory override' of pension protection arrangements put in place in some denationalised industries in the 1990s
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Research Briefing
Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme for councillors in England
Looks at the provisions to allow councillors access to the Local Government Pension Scheme from 2003 and the removal of this for councillors in England from April 2014
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Research Briefing
Atos and the Work Capability Assessment
After much speculation, on 27 March the Government announced the early exit of Atos Healthcare from the contract under which it carries out Work Capability Assessments for people claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). In July 2013, the Department for Work and Pensions announced that it had identified a “contractually unacceptable” reduction in the quality
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Research Briefing
Incapacity benefit reassessments
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) replaced incapacity benefits for new claims from October 2008. Between 2010 and 2014, around 1.5 million claimants of old-style incapaqcity benefits are being reassessed for ESA. To date, over 1.1 million incapacity benefit claimants have been reassessed, and around a fifth have been found “Fit for Work.”
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Research Briefing
Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England
The development of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England since its establishment in 2005, including the 2014 reforms.
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Research Briefing
Why cap welfare spending?
Budget 2014 introduced a cap on certain elements of welfare spending including housing benefit, incapacity benefit and tax credits. The state pension and Jobseekers Allowance are not included. The cap on welfare spending has been long planned, with Budget 2011 stating that the Government was “considering options for strengthening control” over this type of spending.
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