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Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to keep the 50% cap on faith-based admissions in new religious schools. Since 2011 all new state schools have had to be free schools and they have been subject to such a cap. But the Schools Bill is set… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the government’s decision to significantly increase firearms licensing fees poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. Moreover, an inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Government ministers’ belief that the housing benefits system is ‘out of control’ is unjustified, a housing research charity has claimed. The Building and Social Housing Foundation rejected welfare reform minister David Freud’s recent claim that housing benefit is “really out of control, growing a bit like Japanese knotweed”. It argued the recent… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Village communities will be torn apart by referendums on local planning decisions, campaigners have said. The Rural Commission is objecting to plans for the coalition government to allow local votes on new housing schemes in rural areas where many young people struggle to be able to afford their own home. The scheme… Read more »
