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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »
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The Government’s ‘Invest to Save Budget’, a scheme designed to promote innovation in public services, has been criticised for a lack of checks. The Commons public accounts committee has criticised the lack of checks on hundreds of projects undertaken as part of the scheme, claiming that this makes it hard to assess what has been… Read more »
The independent NHS watchdog, the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), has issued its first report on the NHS and claims that services are improving. This report will give some cheer to the government, who have focused heavily on improving the NHS since re-election, though it also comments that improvements are not complete, and may even… Read more »