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Today, members of the House of Lords will debate the Terminally Ill Adults Bill for the first sitting of Committee Stage. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Lord Carlile of Berriew, Baroness Coffey, Lord Goodman of Wycombe, Lord Moylan, and Lord Sandhurst, all opponents of the Assisted Dying Bill, have together tabled 587 amendments to… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) met the new Policing Minister, Sarah Jones MP, on Wednesday 12 November, to raise concerns affecting the shooting community, including a forthcoming consultation on plans to merge shotgun and firearms licensing. During the meeting with the Minister, BASC underlined the sector’s commitment to high standards and public… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt A fresh attack on disability benefits from George Osborne has sparked signs of tensions with the Tories’ Lib Dem coalition partners. The chancellor stressed that rules surrounding incapacity benefit and its successor, the employment and support allowance, needed to be tightened up, as did housing benefit. Housing benefit has already been mentioned… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson David Cameron and George Osborne claimed international approval for the emergency Budget after the G20 backed action to halve deficits by 2013. Britain’s drastic spending cuts, which will see departmental budgets cut by 25% after the NHS and international aid are ringfenced, are at the more extreme end of the approaches being… Read more »
