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BASC Scotland has reinforced its calls for a community deer management pilot scheme in light of a new round of Scottish government deer contracts. The Scottish government agency responsible for managing publicly-owned forestry – Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) – has announced plans to cull a fifth of Scotland’s wild deer population over the next… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The government has released three documents today setting out procedures for the new parliament. They include an updated ministerial code, a list of Cabinet committees and the coalition agreement for stability and reform. The new code bars former ministers from lobbying government for two years, places restrictions on advisers and government cars… Read more »
It’s Queen’s Speech time again. Having now received the full 33-page coalition government policy document we know the overall agenda for the next five years. Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech will give us some idea of which proposals will be turned into legislation this parliamentary year. Expect civil liberties, deficit reduction and parliamentary and welfare reform to… Read more »
