As we’re now at the end of the year, I thought we might take the opportunity to go back through my near-meticulously kept (everyone’s allowed one tautology a year), spreadsheet which covers all mentions of consultation in the Westminster Parliament. Starting next year, we should have a new and improved system that also better covers […]
The Year in Parliament Read More »
This morning saw the Supreme Court judgment on R (Friends of the Earth) v Heathrow Airport Ltd [2020] UKSC 52 overturning a Court of Appeal ruling that declared the Government’s designation of its Airports National Policy Statement (NPS) unlawful. The 2019 judgment was largely because the Minister was judged not to have taken account of
Supreme-court’s Heathrow turnaround – four implications for public consultations Read More »
We’re nearly there ladies and gentlemen. Where? Well that’s up to you. Perhaps you’re someone eagerly waiting for the sigh of warmth and comfort that is Christmas at the end of a very difficult year. Perhaps you’re a desperate politico, who is keen to stop reading the menus of last-minute Brexit-resolving meetings. Perhaps you’re a
The Week in Parliament Read More »
This week we saw judgment being handed down in the case of Tomkins v City of London Corporation [2020] EWHC 3357 (Admin), a challenge to the validity of an Experimental Traffic Order (ETO) on Beech Street in the City of London. This traffic order was used to close Beech Street to through-traffic (other than zero-emission
The Government’s Planning for the Future consultation has drawn a lot of attention from across many different sectors, much of it critical of the proposals to undertake significant reform of the English planning system. The Institute itself held a round-table on the topic, and the debate there informed our own response to the consultation which
Planning for the Future- CPRE publishes open letter opposing proposals Read More »
It is sometimes curious which consultations make most of a splash in Parliament, and the reasons they do so can be wide and varied. Most often, they appear frequently because opposition parliamentarians are chasing up what they see as missing consultations or responses (the shared prosperity fund, online harms etc), sometimes because politicians are unhappy
Lambs to the slaughter? The most previewed consultation finally appears… Read More »
The Coronavirus pandemic has had widespread effects across society, and nowhere is this being felt more keenly than in the justice system. The already enormous backlog of outstanding cases in the criminal courts has only been exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic, and now stands at almost 50,000. For reference, in the year before the pandemic,
On 25th November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood before the House of Commons to present his November spending review. I am a little careful about doing this, given that the last time I tried this was on the 2020 Budget, an exercise that a month afterwards was rendered moot by the arrival of coronavirus.
Spending Review November 2020: The consultation prospects Read More »
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There’s no vaccine for climate change! Read More »
Does it matter if the number of Sikhs in the UK is 430,000? Or over 700,000? The Sikh Federation believes it does and has pursued the matter for years, trying to persuade the Office of National Statistics (ONS) that its 2021 census should offer people the chance to declare themselves as Sikh in terms of ethnicity rather
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