UK Government publications online this week

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Here are links to the latest key reports online.

Department of Health: Poly Implant Prostheses breast implants – Interim report of the expert group

Welsh Affairs Committee – Seventh Report
Representation of consumer interests in Wales HC 1558
volume 2

Migration Advisory Committee report on the impact of migration.

Treasury – Twenty-Fifth Report
Private Finance Initiative: Government, OBR and NAO Responses to the Seventeenth Report from the Committee
HC 1725

Department for Transport: High speed rail – Investing in Britain’s future – Decisions and next steps see the options on the right of the page for other documents

Creating a sporting habit for life – A new youth sport strategy

Attitudes to age in Britain 2010-11. Department for Work and Pensions
research

Review of social enterprise in rural England – Report

Transport Committee – Twelfth Report
Cost of motor insurance: follow up HC 1451

Public Accounts Committee – Sixty-Second Report
Means Testing HC 1627

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