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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »
The leading anti-assisted dying group Christian Action, Research and Education (CARE) used Christian reasoning to get its supporters to write to their MPs – but then omitted any Christian language at all from the default email that it got them to send. While recognising that it is essential that all sides are heard in the… Read more »
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Ruth Kelly has told MPs Home Information Packs (Hips) will be delayed, amid problems implementing the scheme. Hips were schedule to launch on June 1 and would have required anyone marketing a property for sale in England and Wales to provide an energy efficiency certificate (ERC), along with a title deed, sale statement and record… Read more »
Applications for major infrastructure developments will be sped up and simplified under proposals contained in a new government white paper. Minor private planning decisions will also be overhauled to make it easier for households to construct extensions and conservatries. Announcing the plans in parliament, Ruth Kelly told MPs the current UK planning system was “baffling”,… Read more »
