Pilot projects are in favour, which suggests that at least some councils will be given powers to conduct limited road-pricing experiments.

ECONOMIST: Transport

And perhaps the new government's most significant financial reform has been an attempt to prevent this particular horse bolting again: it has set up a so-called Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England, which will soon have formal powers to prevent banks lending too much in the next boom.

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Without this change, Mr Powers says, the proportion of minorities at his university will decline: the top-10% plan yields only about 25% black and Hispanic students, but the university could admit far more if it retained control over the other half of its class.

ECONOMIST: Affirmative action

The cross-party Silk Commission is taking evidence for its second report which will look at the scope of the assembly's powers.

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