Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision (MDMD) will be holding a rally on Parliament Square on 29 April at 15:30 to show their support for assisted dying legislation for the terminally ill and the incurably suffering. On Monday the House of Commons will be holding a Westminster Hall debate on assisted dying after an… Read more »
BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Ministers’ promises to meet 95% of Tube upgrade firm Metronet’s financial liability helped drive the company towards failure, MPs have suggested. The Commons’ public accounts committee said the Department for Transport (DfT) was “naive” in assuming that Metronet – tasked with two of the three 30-year public-private partnership contracts begun in 2003… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The row over ‘non-dom’ donors escalated further in a day of bitter infighting across Westminster on Tuesday. The Conservatives put in a freedom of information request against a Labour donor after Peter Mandelson’s attempts to shine further light on the tax status of Tory donor Michael Ashcroft were thwarted earlier. The Liberal… Read more »
