
Parliamentary Committee report on Welfare Rights bill
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its legislative scrutiny Report on the Welfare Reform Bill on 12 December 2011 .
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its legislative scrutiny Report on the Welfare Reform Bill on 12 December 2011 .

In November 2011, the Council of Europe adopted a Resolution and a Recommendation on ‘The Declaration of Principles on Equality and the Activities of the Council of Europe’.
The Deputy Prime Minister delivered the Scarman Lecture, hosted by the People Can charity, in Brixton on 24 November 2011.

Published in December 2011, the OECD report ‘Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising’ shows rising inequality in OECD countries, with the fastest rise in the UK.
On 1 December 2011, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published ‘Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011’.