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Westminster news

Autumn Performance Report 2009 – HM Treasury

Building Britain’s Recovery: Achieving Full Employment (Cm 7751) : Dept. for Work & Pensions – restates the Government’s response to the recession and signals the start of the programme to return to full employment

Legal aid: funding reforms – consultation paper  - Min. of Justice -  consultation seeking views on proposals to reform the fees paid to litigators and advocates in publicly-funded criminal cases and measures to reduce spending on experts’ fees in all legal aid cases

The relationship between rights and responsibilities - Min. of Justice – A study examining the idea of constitutional responsibilities within the context of the current debate on a new British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

Risk, reward and responsibility: the financial sector and society – HM Treasury – discussion document on possible international options to reduce the cost to taxpayers of financial sector failures 

Holyrood news 

“Advocacy makes you feel brave”: Advocacy support for children and young people in Scotland – presents findings from a recent study into advocacy support

Scottish Government’s Response to Professor Alec Spencer’s Report “Balancing Risk and Need” – looks at the recommendations made by Prof. Spencer and how the Government plans to take them forward 

Societal Cost of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland for 2007 – an independent study shows that alcohol misues could be costing the taxpayer £3.56billion a year

Wind farm schemes approved – 2 wind farm schemes near Thurso which will provide approximately 45000 homes with electicity gets the green light – News release

Brussels news 

26th Annual Report on Monitoring the Application of Community Law (2008) – Report from the Commission (COM (2009) 675 final)

Equality between women and men – 2010 – Report from the Commission to the Council (COM (2009) 694 final) – the Commission renews its committment to promoting equality between women and men in 2010 by adopting a gender equality strategy

Euro area unemployment up to 10.0% – figures released by Eurostat show 0.5% increase

European Council conclusions – 10-11 December – last meeting of the Swedish presidency and first under the Lisbon Treaty

Spain takes over the Presidency 1st Jan – 30th June 2010 – Spain is the first to take the new format trio presidency, where an 18 month work programme will be produced

United Nations Climate Change Conference – Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009 – read about the conference, the documents produced and the decisions taken

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