Daily List 097

Armed Forces' Pay Review Body: service medical and dental officers: supplement to the forty-second report 2013.

Cm. 8632.

Corporate Author:

Armed Forces' Pay Review Body

Author:

Alasdair Smith (chairman)

This pay review of Service Medical and Dental Officer recommends: a one per cent increase in basic pay to all ranks within the Medical and Dental Officer cadre; a one per cent increase in General Medical Practitioner and General Dental Practitioner Trainer Pay and Associate Trainer Pay; a 0.5 percentage point increase in X-Factor from 14.0 per cent to 14.5 per cent, in line with the main remit group; that MOD reconsiders how to best include Medical and Dental Officers in the future Armed Forces Pension Scheme.

• ISBN: 9780101863223
• £16.00

Economic globalisation: origins and consequences.

OECD insights

Corporate Author:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Author:

Jean-Yves Huwart, Loïc Verdier

Few subjects are as controversial - and poorly understood - as globalisation. While in its broadest sense, economic globalisation is as old as trade itself, the recent financial crisis has amplified the complexity associated with the global interconnectedness of the world's economies and its ramifications on our livelihoods. This publication reviews the major turning points in the history of economic integration, and in particular the pace at which it has accelerated since the 1990s. It also considers its impact in four crucial areas, namely employment, development, the environment and financial stability: does globalisation foster development or create inequality? Does it promote or destroy jobs? Is it damaging to the environment or compatible with its preservation? Are we heading towards de-globalisation or can globalisation in fact enable recovery?

• ISBN: 9789264111899
• £10.00

Fiscal monitor: fiscal adjustment in an uncertain world.

World economic and financial surveys

Corporate Author:

International Monetary Fund

Continued progress in reducing advanced economy deficits and a gradually improving external environment have lowered short-term fiscal risks, according to this issue, but global prospects nevertheless remain subdued, and many advanced economies face a lengthy, difficult, and uncertain path to fiscal sustainability. Though many advanced economies are now close to achieving primary surpluses that will allow them to stabilise their debt ratios, this is only a first step, as merely stabilising advanced economy debt at current levels would be detrimental to medium- and longer-term economic prospects. The key elements of the required policy package are well known: foremost among them is setting out -- and implementing -- a clear and credible plan to bring debt ratios down over the medium term. Debt dynamics have remained relatively positive in most emerging market economies and low-income countries, and most plan to continue to allow the automatic stabilisers to operate fully, while pausing the underlying fiscal adjustment process. Those with low general government debt and deficits can afford to maintain a neutral stance in response to a weaker global outlook. But countries with relatively high or quickly increasing debt levels are exposed to sizable risks, especially once effective interest rates rise as monetary policy normalises in the advanced economies and concessional financing from advanced economies declines. The widespread use of energy subsidies makes commodity prices an additional source of vulnerability in many emerging market and low-income economies; subsidy reform, higher consumption taxes, and broadening of tax bases would help support consolidation efforts.

• ISBN: 9781475566253
• £53.50

Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation: first report of session 2013-14. Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence.

House of Commons papers (2013-14) - 85.

Corporate Author:

Political and Constitutional Reform Committee

Author:

Graham Allen (chairman)

There has been repeated criticism in recent years from a variety of sources about both the quantity and quality of legislation. The Committee's inquiry into Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation has considered these criticisms, analysed the core problems and causes of bad quality legislation, and looked to provide solutions for both the Government and Parliament to improve the quality of legislation. The Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly and National Assembly for Wales have adapted the Westminster model in order to improve the quality of their legislation; it is now the turn of Westminster to look at their processes and adapt them for use here. The Committee has concluded that it would be beneficial for Parliament and the Government to work together to agree standards for what makes good legislation, and as a starting point for discussion publishes a draft Code of Legislative Standards with the report. The Committee also recommends the creation of a Joint Legislative Standards Committee to provide oversight of the Cabinet's Parliamentary Business and Legislation Committee's approach to and use of the finalised Code of Legislative Standards, to ensure that the quality standards set out in the Code of Legislative Standards are met. The Committee considers that these recommendations would also improve the quality of constitutional legislation, in particular, by requiring the Government to adopt an agreed test to identify constitutional legislation and thereby improve Parliament's scrutiny of it

• ISBN: 9780215057471
• £20.00

Scotland analysis: financial services and banking.

Cm. 8630.

Corporate Author:

H.M. Treasury.

The second Scotland analysis paper, Currency and monetary policy, explained that the currency and macroeconomic framework that operates across the UK would not be able to continue between two separate states. In the event of a vote for independence, there would be further consequences for the financial sector and for its customers which are analysed in the current paper. The most profound implication is that independence would create two separate financial jurisdictions: the continuing UK and a new, independent Scotland, which would require its own legal and regulatory framework. The competitiveness of Scotland's financial sector is aided by its location within the UK. Industry and international bodies view the UK as a strong tax and regulatory regime, building customers' and partner organisations' trust in UK financial firms. Being part of the UK helps support the Scottish financial services sector, which generates employment not just in financial services firms, but in the professional and other services that support the sector. Location in a larger economy also helps to reduce firms' cost of borrowing because markets perceive these firms as less of a risk. If Scotland became independent, this position would be called into question: The Scottish banking sector would be exceptionally large compared to the size of an independent Scotland's economy, making it more vulnerable to financial shocks than it is as part of the larger UK. There could be questions about an independent Scotland's ability to stabilise its banking system in the event of a future financial crisis

• ISBN: 9780101863025
• £21.25

Report by the Health Service Ombudsman of England of an investigation into a complaint by Mr and Mrs M.

House of Commons papers (2013-14) - 132.

Author:

Dame Julie Mellor (Health Service Ombudsman)

This report is into a complaint by Mr and Mrs M concerning the treatment of the disabled daughter by their GP, the out of hours SEEDS services and the PCT Trust of the hospital their daughter was taken to. No service failure was found with regard to the GP; however the SEEDS doctors failings did constitute service failure. The PCT's handling of the complaint had lesser failures and did not constitute maladadministration

• ISBN: 9780102983586
• £21.25

Post-legislative assessment of the Health and Social Care Act 2008: memorandum to the House of Commons Health Select Committee.

Cm. 8625.

Corporate Author:

Department of Health.

The 2008 Act falls into five main parts, whose main objectives were: to establish the Care Quality Commission; to change arrangements for regulation of health professionals and of the health and social care workforce; to update the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984; to create the Health in Pregnancy Grant; and to make miscellaneous other changes in relation to health and social care. Most of the provisions of the Act are now in force (in some cases with amendments made by later legislation). The main exceptions include part 2 sections 124-126, which dealt with various matters in the remit of the General Social Care Council, and were not commenced. Instead, the Council was abolished, and its functions were transferred to the Health and Care Professions Council, in 2012. Part 3 provisions relating to port health have not yet been commenced, but the intention is that they will come into force at the same time as new port health regulations. The Act achieved its objectives (or in the case of port health, is in the process of doing so), with the exception of the creation of the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator. The rest of the memorandum considers each Part of the Act in more detail, with information about: secondary legislation made under the powers created by the Act, and key guidance issued in relation to it; any legal issues that have arisen in relation to the Act, and other reviews of the Act, that the Department of Health is aware of

• ISBN: 9780101862523
• £16.00

Remington: essentials of pharmaceutics.

Corporate Author:

Pharmaceutical Press

Author:

Linda Felton (chair)

Remington: Essentials of Pharmaceutics equips you with a complete guide to the theory and application of pharmaceutics. Chapters from Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy have been handpicked to provide you with a comprehensive international coverage of: pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical dosage forms; Pharmaceutical analysis and quality control; pharmaceutical chemistry; pharmacokinetics. Drug discovery, drug product approval and information resources are fully explained as well as the fundamental scientific concepts. The attractive two-color page layout aids understanding and the chapter content lists make the book easy to navigate.

• ISBN: 9780857111050
• £39.99

Crushed hopes: underemployment and deskilling among skilled migrant women.

International dialogue on migration

Corporate Author:

International Organization for Migration

This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the disproportionate difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transferring their skills and finding employment commensurate with their education when relocating to a new country. The case studies highlight situations in which migratory status and labour market dynamics can combine to constrain skilled and highly skilled migrant women to low-skilled occupations despite their often high human capital. They also analyse the impact that such occupational downgrading can have on migrant women's well-being and the strategies that women can adopt to regain a professional status.

• ISBN: 9789290685982
• £20.95