The green paper sets out options which include handing management to private companies to save costs.
With five weeks of consultation remaining, the Green Paper had so far prompted 16, 000 written responses.
One thing the green paper noticeably avoids doing is setting actual targets for affordable housing.
Work also colours the green paper's principle that the welfare system should support families and children.
One serious remaining obstacle to work is mentioned but not addressed in the green paper.
The Government set out its pension policy in the Green Paper Partnership in Pensions in December 1998.
In the Green Paper there are two options, neither of which would see the status quo survive.
The green paper talks cautiously of exploring whether tax measures could help make the sector work better.
The Wales Office confirmed that a proposal in the green paper to re-draw constituency boundaries has been abandoned.
The green paper says that although health is improving, it is not as good as it should be.
The green paper will raise the possibility that additional revenues could be raised by road pricing and parking charges.
At the time, the Labour Party welcomed the Green Paper but warned it would not stop the cuts facing charities.
The day after the green paper was published, the Sun splashed criticism of the new prisons policy across its front page.
One answer, suggests the green paper, is for Britain's forces to become more adaptable, able to change structure and equipment more quickly.
The electricity regulator, Stephen Littlechild, told The Economist that the green paper identified a number of issues with which ministers were uncomfortable.
For the green paper specifically excludes officials of foreign governments or international organisations from sitting on the board of the controlling corporation.
Even its critics accept that the green paper outlines some useful reforms.
The green paper advocates giving potential tenants a wider choice of accommodation.
The green paper does not spell out all the hard choices Britain will have to make, but it sets out two important principles.
The resolution approving the Parliament's position on the green paper was approved by 456 votes to 50 at the voting session on 25 February 2010.
But the green paper's overall message is that the public has been poorly served by the current regulatory regime and that more government intervention is needed.
The green paper announced on Wednesday saw the BBC as the cornerstone of public service broadcasting, but the proposed cuts would undermine its work, said the unions.
During the debate, Jim Price, head of South View CP School, Crowland, Lincolnshire, argued that the union was not being robust enough in its opposition to the Green Paper.
This point was echoed by Portuguese socialist MEP Marisa Matias, who has published the European Parliament's formal response to the green paper, on behalf of the Industry, Energy and Research Committee.
The green paper admits that previous reforms to achieve sustainable fisheries have not been met, with 88% of fishing stocks in EU waters overfished, compared to a global average of 25%.
Despite all the initiatives and proposals mentioned in the green paper, the best hope for the government and its key workers is that the current housing boom in the south will cool off.
"The goal of the green paper is to promote debate on the issue and to seek views from government, MEPs and other interested parties on what role if any the EU could play, " Mr Kyprianou's spokesman said.
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In July, the green paper on proposals for a London mayor discussed, albeit in oblique terms, another form of earmarking the possibility of taxing non-residential parking and using road charges as a way of financing the capital's future government.
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