Health
Passports for the NHS?
A London hospital has announced it will be asking women who receive maternity services to provide ID before treatment to determine whether they should be charged. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Japanese-owned companies in the UK
140,000 people are employed by Japanese-owned companies in the UK, according to estimates from the Japanese government. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
"Naming and shaming" companies with foreign workers
The Conservatives did seem to suggest publishing the percentage of foreign workers at different companies, although they’ve now ruled that out. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Leaving the single market
Don’t confuse the estimated cost of Brexit to GDP with the cost to tax revenues. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Post-referendum predictions: have forecasts for the economy changed?
The average forecast for UK GDP growth this year was the same September as in June, despite the UK voting to leave the EU. But that’s not the whole story. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Tax: evasion and avoidance in the UK
In 2013-14, HMRC estimate that they lost about £2.7 billion through tax avoidance and £4.4 billion through tax evasion—so about £7.1 billion overall. Read
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Human rights law means police warnings for people at risk of being killed
Recent reports on the role of the European Court of Human Rights in police ‘threat to life’ warnings are only partially correct. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
UK jobs and EU-owned businesses
In 2014, about 1.6 million people in the UK were employed by EU-owned businesses. Read
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Immigration
More refugees in the EU are Syrian than any other nationality
A majority of recently accepted refugees in the EU are Syrian, although they’re not the majority of those applying for refugee status or entering the EU. Read
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Immigration
Net migration equals a city the size of Cardiff
Net migration in the UK was 327,000 in the year to March, roughly a city the size of Cardiff or Wakefield. It’s not at this level every year, but has been since 2015. Read
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