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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review of Defra’s decision to withdraw the general licence (GL43) that allowed the release of gamebirds in certain areas of England. BASC’s ‘Fighting Fund’ is being used to support the High Court challenge. BASC chief executive Ian… Read more »
Long overdue legislation setting out the regulatory framework for physician assistants (PAs) and anaesthesia assistants (AAs) has been published today. Commenting on the legislation, Dr Michael Devlin, head of professional standards and liaison at the MDU said: “This important piece of legislation not only introduces much needed regulation for PAs and AAs, it will also be… Read more »
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Fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics show that UK public sector debt has reached £2.3 trillion. The figures for the last financial year show public sector debt surging to £2.34 trillion over the past 12 months, equal to 6.2 per cent of national GDP. In March the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasted that… Read more »
Prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced that the government will “remove all remaining domestic restrictions in law” in a statement to the House. Labour’s Keir Starmer said that the government’s announcements were “not enough to prepare us for future variants” and pointed to the rumours that the prime minister “couldn’t persuade his own health secretary”. He… Read more »
