Author: House of Commons Environmental Audit Com
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: report, minutes, formal, oral, written, evidence, together, third, fiscal, budget, policy, recession, pre, session
Number of Pages: 109
Published: 2009-03
List price: $33.50
ISBN-10: 0215529146
ISBN-13: 9780215529145

This report examines, firstly, the Treasury’s response to recession. The fiscal stimulus measures intended to pull the economy out of recession represent an invaluable opportunity to transform the UK into a low-carbon economy. But meeting climate change and renewable energy targets will require a step-change in environmental investment. "The 2008 Pre-Budget Report" (ISBN 978010174842) announced a GBP 535 m package of green fiscal stimulus measures designed to tackle economic and environmental problems simultaneously. This investment is welcome but the scale too small. Most of this fundin

Authors:House of Lords, House of Commons Join,
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: report, minutes, formal, oral, written, evidence, together, session, paper, rights, twenty, second, demonstrating, respect
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 0108444775
ISBN-13: 9780108444777

This report, "Demonstrating Respect for Rights? Follow-up (HL Paper 141 / HC 522)", investigates the protests during the G20 summit in London in April. It follows the Committee’s March 2009 report about a human rights based approach to policing protest ("HL 47-I / HCP 320-I", ISBN 9780104014530). The G20 protests were mostly peaceful in intent but were marred by a death, alleged assaults of protesters by police officers, the use of containment tactics against protesters and alleged refusals of some police officers to reveal their identity. The Committee recommend that: every police force

Authors:House of Lords, House of Commons,
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Keywords: crimes, redress, torture, victims, related, genocide, impunity, gap, law, closing
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 2009-08-30
List price: $33.50
ISBN-10: 0108444880
ISBN-13: 9780108444883

Authors:House of Lords, House of Commons,
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: torture, complicity, allegations
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2009-08-30
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 0108444856
ISBN-13: 9780108444852

Author: House of Commons
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: supervision, regulation, crisis, banking
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0215540654
ISBN-13: 9780215540652

This report considers how regulation and supervision have changed, and can be further improved, in order to return to and maintain more stable banking. The Committee considers the reforms to the institutional structure of the Tripartite Committee announced in the Treasury’s recent White Paper, "Reforming Financial Markets (Cm. 7667)" (ISBN 9780101766722) to be largely cosmetic. There is still a lack of clarity regarding who is responsible for systemic oversight and who has executive authority in a crisis. But in the Committee’s view no new macroprudential responsibilities should be

Author: House of Commons
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: report, volume, together, formal, minutes, session, engineering, ideas, reality, fourth, turning
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2009-03-30
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 021552926X
ISBN-13: 9780215529268

Engineering is a critical component of the national economy and of society in general. The Committee is convinced that the strength of the UK’s engineering base means that the UK can play a major part in solving global problems such as climate change, food and water supply, energy security, and economic instability. Engineering involves skills, higher education and innovation and encompasses research and development, design, production, distribution and services. The Committee takes a case study approach in this report, "Engineering: Turning Ideas into Reality (HC 50-I)", exploring key t

Author: House of Commons
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: report, annual, rights, human
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2009-08-30
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0215540832
ISBN-13: 9780215540836

This report "Human Rights Annual Report 2008 (HC 557)", examines the Government’s record in relation to securing the human rights of British citizens and others overseas and its work in promoting human rights in other countries. The report covers: rendition; allegations of UK complicity in torture; transfers of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan; and, the regulation of private military and security companies. It also provides an examination of the international human rights framework and human rights abuses in individual countries of concern including: Burma; China; Colombia; Iran; Iraq;