The report was based on research conducted by the left-of-centre Policy Studies Institute on behalf of the Government.

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The authors included a very helpful table showing the results of recent studies on the relationship between the size of government and economic performance.

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In addition, several of the studies found reducing government spending has no significant affect on economic growth.

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The ESC's studies also included fire and accident trends from the Department of Communities and Local Government and data on the number of high risk electrical items in homes from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

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Michael Meacher - sacked as a minister in the recent reshuffle - said studies on the effects of GM foods on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the government against rushing the debate.

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We discovered that the Federal Government was honeycombed with newsletters, bulletins, reports, and studies on everything from NATO to Plato.

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But there could be a more complicated plan behind the recent attack, according to Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations: to drive a wedge between the new Egyptian government and the military.

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Mr Meacher said studies on the effects of GM foods on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the government against rushing the debate.

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She spent the last two months putting together incredibly readable case studies on the 13 most advanced initiatives, and the result is a report entitled Bringing it Home: Taking Stock of Government Engagement with the Voluntary Carbon Market , which I wrote about here.

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