Others argue that new institutions such as the Social Exclusion Unit and new policies such as the New Deals for young people and communities are significant measures to tackle the causes of crime and are ones which would not have been promoted by the Conservatives.

BBC: Unit 4: Political issues

Mistakes had been made, she said, at December's Copenhagen summit, which was intended to provide a comprehensive package of measures to combat the causes and impacts of climate change - the conclusion to a commitment made by all governments at the 2007 summit in Bali - but which ended with no such thing.

BBC: New UN climate chief calls for more ambition

With the oversight of senior management and our audit committee, we have begun taking steps and plan to take additional measures to remediate the underlying causes of the material weakness, primarily through the development and implementation of formal policies, improved processes and documented procedures, as well as the hiring of additional finance personnel.

FORBES: Connect

It also gives everyone a chance to educate Congress on the causes of cyber threats and ask them to enact measures that will help prevent, deter, and counter cybercrimes.

FORBES: Obama's Cybersecurity Action Reaches Too Far

The measures were brought in to help control the spread of the norovirus bug which causes vomiting and diarrhoea.

BBC: Virus-hit East Surrey Hospital allows visits

Smoking causes around 90% of lung cancers, and CRUK wants more efforts to be put into anti-smoking measures.

BBC: Women's lung cancers has doubled since 1970s in over-60s