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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrats’ new chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander is on the defensive after being accused of using a tax loophole to avoid paying capital gains tax (CGT). Mr Alexander did not pay CGT on his London property, for which he claimed £37,000 on MPs’ expenses after designating it his… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Nick Clegg’s former chief of staff Danny Alexander has been appointed as David Laws’ replacement in the Treasury. David Cameron moved quickly to put Mr Alexander in place after Yeovil MP Mr Laws resigned on Saturday. It means 38-year-old Mr Alexander, who had led the negotiating team which agreed the terms of… Read more »
