The Welsh government said in a statement that a wide-ranging reform programme is set out in a White Paper and it will be legislating to implement the changes next year while local authorities are responding with an action plan.

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In April this year the Chinese government issued its first white paper on its foreign-aid programme.

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The report highlighted what it called a "significant policy shift" between the coalition programme announced in May and the more detailed white paper in July.

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The American conglomerate ended its share-repurchase programme, paid unprecedented interest rates on its commercial paper and raised capital from Warren Buffett, a celebrated investor, on terms that in normal times would have seemed exorbitant.

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Jay Carney was willing to discuss the programme this week, mainly because NBC News published the paper.

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Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black attacked the government on the lack of measurable targets in the programme of government and called the publication "a waste of paper".

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Allianz, for example, which settled most of its policies under Germany's own sweeping post-war restitution programme, set up a team to examine 1.4m individual paper files on policies issued between 1920 and 1945 in order to try to trace any that remain unpaid.

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This first paper in the series seeks to lay the foundations for the rest of the programme by examining both the current legal and constitutional arrangements for Scotland within the UK and some of the potential consequences of independence.

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Gazing at the picture whilst on my guided tour of the paper - part of my exciting experiment as the guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme - I couldn't help wondering what Bill, who died in 2007 at the age of 94, would make of the extraordinary transformation that has taken place since his death.

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