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4 days ago

Reeves faces Treasury committee before Tory censure motion in Commons saying she misled voters about budget UK politics live

NAO warns Shabana Mahmood's asylum overhaul could increase homelessness for refugees and expand case backlogs.
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3 weeks ago

HMRC accused of being cavalier' with finances of child benefit claimants

said Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the influential parliamentary committee. I'm afraid, though, that it appears they have been cavalier with people's finances, making the arbitrary decision to remove necessary checks and causing a mess they are now forced to clean up. She added that a decision by HMRC not to cross-check faulty travel data it had received from the Home Office against tax records was a costly error.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Stella Creasy and Richard Tice call for scrutiny over which EU laws UK ditches

The analysis by the Guardian and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) has found that since Brexit the EU has brought forward 28 new, revised or upgraded pieces of environmental legislation that the UK has not adopted, and the UK has actively chosen to regress by changing four different pieces of legislation including on protected habitats, pesticides and fisheries.
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