Public Spending
During last night’s late night sitting in the House of Lords, running beyond 2am, peers voted to allow women to continue to access abortion services at home. Prior to Covid, women were required to attend a clinic in person to access abortion pills. But since then, they have been able to receive the pills by post. The… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has committed to contributing £75,000 towards Natural England’s hen harrier recovery work over the next three years, via its Legacy Fund. Three annual payments of £25,000 will aid Natural England’s objectives of winter roost monitoring, support and education around diversionary feeding, and the southern reintroduction of the species. The three-year agreement follows… Read more »
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The government has again been criticised for its “entirely unrealistic” initial assessment of the estimated cost of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Commons’ public accounts committee is critical of financial planning for the Games after the government increased its estimate of their cost from just over £4 billion at the time of the bid… Read more »
Parliament is shirking its fundamental task of holding the government to account on its spending, a committee of senior MPs has said. The Commons’ liaison committee, made up of select committee chairmen, says MPs have the power to scrutinise financial matters but are not doing so with the detail required. Partly to blame is the… Read more »
