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BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

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Spending watchdog says government must widen efforts to tackle pensioner poverty
Pension credit ‘not the only way’ to tackle poverty

The government’s determination to roll out pension credits has been at the expense of other measures that could better tackle pensioner poverty, a new report warns. Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) finds while increasing take-up of pensions credit by ten per cent would lift up to 107,000 people out of poverty, doing the… Read more »

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Government publishes its pensions plans today
Pension plans ‘will last for generations’

The government has today unveiled a radical shake-up of the pensions system, with an increase in the retirement age and new ways to make people save for their old age. Tony Blair said the pensions white paper would create “something that lasts not just for this generation, but for generations to come”, and insisted it… Read more »