Constitutional Reform
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt MPs will vote on an opposition day motion today which seeks to reform parliament following the cash-for-amendments scandal and Derek Conway’s breach of parliamentary standards. To read comment on parliamentary reform click here. To read analysis of parliamentary reform click here. The motion, put forward by the Liberal Democrats, calls for a… Read more »
By Ian Dunt Derek Conway, the Conservative MP who was thrown out the party for paying his sons out of his allowances, has been found guilty of breaching parliamentary standards, parliamentary insiders have indicated. The ruling, by the parliamentary standards committee, refers to a second complaint against the Old Bexley and Sidcup MP, concerning his… Read more »
