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BASC issues warning to Minister ahead of final Grouse Bill debate

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 »

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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

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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Myners attacks his former colleagues
Myners attacks his former colleagues

By politics.co.uk staff Former financial services minister Paul Myners has attacked the previous government for running up debts of nearly 11% of national output. “There is nothing progressive about a government that consistently spends more than it can raise in taxation and certainly nothing progressive that endows generations to come with the liabilities incurred with… Read more »

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Clarke wants to save 'vital green space'
Coalition to end ‘garden grab’ development

By politics.co.uk staff Gardens will no longer be classified as brownfield sites in a bid to stop developers taking them over, according to the government. Communities minister Greg Clarke is expected to announce later today that vital green space can no longer be treated in the same was as ex-factory or railway land. “For years… Read more »