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Telegraph View: Ken Clarke's Justice and Security Green Paper allows justice to be pursued without jeopardising national security.

Next week the Government will announce legislation to reform legal aid, following a Green Paper published last November to which the Ministry of Justice received an unprecedented 5,000 responses. Whilst “legal aid reform” was in the Coalition Agreement, the scale of proposed changes has taken many aback – in order to cut the legal aid

The government published the Green Paper on reforming the Criminal Justice System “Breaking the Cycle” in November with most news coverage centring on proposals for “payment by results” and putting physical work apparently at the centre of prison life. However, behind the headlines this is in many ways the most thoughtful government document on crime

Graduate contribution is one of six options in a green paper published by the government that also includes increased support from business and more philanthropic giving

Government plans for a universal state pension of £140 per week were reported in the media in late October. We should be getting more information in a Green Paper soon. While this announcement was most welcome, it raises two important questions which go to the heart of our tax and benefit system: what should happen to National Insurance Contributions (NICs)? And should we now recognise that t...

Proposals for changes to the criminal and civil legal aid system in England and Wales will be published later in a government Green Paper.

Plans for a radical change to the UK state pension that would merge the basic state pension with the state second pension are to be set out in a green paper

This looks good: The changes, which are due to be detailed in a green paper by the end of the year, mean a single person could receive £7,280 a year and a couple £14,560. Ministers believe that removing means testing and the resulting reduction in bureaucracy will save around £6bn a year. They