Queen’s Speech 2009 - Transcript of the Speech to both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 18 November 2009
Care Matters: Ministerial Stocktake Report 2009 – Dept. Children, Schools & Families – report sets out what the Department have achieved for children in care through the Care Matters programme of reform, and the plans for 2010
Keeping the right people on the DNA database: Summary of responses – Home Office – summary of 503 formal responses to the consultation from a wide variety of interested stakeholders and individual respondents. consultation intended to promote public debate on how long we should retain fingerprints and DNA setting out the benefits of DNA and fingerprints in detecting offenders and helping to bring them to justice
National Council for Educational Excellence: Progress Report – Dept. Children, Schools & Families – document outlines the progress made by the National Council for Educational Excellence. It identifies what needed to be done to achieve real impact and scale in four main strands: business, Higher Education, partnerships and parental engagement.
The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan – Dept. Energy & Climate Change – sets out how the UK will meet the 34 percent cut in emissions on 1990 levels by 2020, set out in the budget.
Unemployment by constituency, October 2009 [HC Research Paper 09/82] paper shows the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance recorded as resident in each constituency in the United Kingdom in October 2009, together with comparisons with the levels in October 2008 and October 1997
Voice of Older People – Annual Report 2009 – Government Equalities Office – The Voice of Older People, Dame Joan Bakewell, has published her annual report today. The report highlights the collective issues that older people in Britain have communicated to Joan over the past year. It also shows what Joan has done to raise the profile of their concerns and includes Government initiatives that support older people.
Holyrood news
Economics Indicators (SPICe Briefing 09-80) – identifies key trends in the Scottish economy such as house prices and inflation
‘The sugar in our tea’: new exhibition on Scotland, slavery and abolition 
Calling all students! Fancy winning a £200 cash prize? 
Vox Populi – The Referendum of 1997 
