An overview of the GCSE exam system, how it operates, the history of these exams, alongside the arguments made for and against the current system.Read More
An overview of the green belt, covering its history, its current location and scale in the United Kingdom, and the political debate that surrounds it.Read More
Liberal Democrat MP for Chesham and Amersham. Elected in a 2021 by-election. Formerly worked in market research, and ran her own communications and training consultancy. Welsh speaker.Read More
Conservative MP for Wealden. Minister of State at the Department of Business. Investment banker, who later worked for Age UK. Outspoken critic of the Chinese government, now banned from entering China.Read More
Government Bills are Public Bills that are introduced by Government Ministers. They have normally been mentioned in the Queen’s Speech for the Session in which they are introduced, but they do not have to have been. They are the Government’s chief means of implementing policy and of seeking Parliamentary approval for so doing.Read More
Green Papers are consultative papers on the options that the Government has determined are available to it in a certain policy area, sometimes including suggestions for legislation.Read More
Government spending is controlled by the Treasury, which must account for all expenditure by departments. The Comprehensive Spending Review sets a Departmental Expenditure Limit, which is the department's budget going forward.Read More
'Gulf War Syndrome' is the phrase coined by the media to describe the unattributable illnesses showing in veterans of the Persian Gulf War against Iraq in 1990.Read More
Genetically modified crops are plants in which genes are altered in the laboratory to make them perform in a very specific way, such as not being harmed by certain herbicides.Read More