Recent Standard Notes
Standard Notes are topical briefings prepared by the House of Commons Library for Members of Parliament. They are published to the internet as they may be of interest to a wider audience.
The Library also prepares longer Research Papers which are available on the Parliament website.
A wider selection of Standard Notes and Research Papers, organised by subject, (for example, defence or transport or health services and medicine), is available in the Topical Issues section
on the Parliament website.
Comments can be emailed to the House of Commons Library. Whilst we value your comments, authors are unable to correspond with members of the public.
The following Standard Notes are produced in portable document format (PDF) and require the use of Adobe Acrobat
Updated 21/11/2009 13:54