Fulton v Bear Scotland<\/em> which was heard by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in late July. The Tribunal has not yet issued its ruling.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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Between 1978 and 2002 the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) (a predecessor of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)) collated accident data via the Home Accident Surveillance System (HASS) and the Leisure Accident Surveillance System (LASS), two linked databases holding details of home and leisure accidents that caused a serious enough injury to warrant a visit to hospital. In 2003 the DTI announced it would no longer fund the collection and publication of HASS/LASS data. The historical data is currently held by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.<\/p>
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<\/p>
The Department did not collate The Home Accidents Deaths Database.<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p>
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Her Majesty\u2019s Government is not aware of any UK firms formally bidding for the building of the new Iraqi naval patrol craft.<\/p>
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The Government has not assessed the effects of recent legislative and regulatory changes on contractual relationships between collecting societies. This is because the policy objective of the regulations is to improve collecting societies\u2019 conduct, rather than to regulate their contractual relationships. However, the impact of the regulations on the conduct of collecting societies will be assessed as part of the usual post-legislative process, which is scheduled for late 2015/ early 2016.<\/p>
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<\/p>
There are no plans for the Government to issue guidance where there is a contractual dispute: Government does not usually interfere in contractual matters between private commercial entities such as collecting societies.<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p>
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The most up to date data currently available is for 2012 and is set out below:<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> <\/p>
Current Price GDP per worker, G7 countries, Index UK=100<\/strong><\/p> <\/p>
<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>Japan<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>Germany<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>Canada<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>Italy<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>France<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>US<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td>G7 excluding UK<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>2012<\/strong><\/p><\/td>93<\/p><\/td> | 108<\/p><\/td> | 111<\/p><\/td> | 118<\/p><\/td> | 118<\/p><\/td> | 146<\/p><\/td> | 125<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Source: International Comparisons of Productivity, Final Estimates for 2012, ONS (Feb 2014)<\/p> <\/p> http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/icp/international-comparisons-of-productivity/2012---final-estimates/stb-icp0214.html<\/a><\/p> <\/p>"}
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