Research papers are compiled for the benefit of British Members of Parliament by the staff of the House of Commons Library. They are an occasional series of papers, numbered by year and sequence of publication, and usually deal with topics of current parliamentary interest. They aim to be politically impartial and contain factual information as well as a range of opinions on each subject covered. They are produced in portable document format (PDF) and require the use of Adobe Acrobat 
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Documents referred to as "deposited papers" are available to the public only from the relevant government department.
None of the sources referred to can be supplied to the public by the House of Commons Library.
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