Friday, 9 May 2014

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"To identify the manner in which the contraband entered the prison would require a manual interrogation of incident reports. This could be achieved only at disproportionate cost"

Grayling's 'right-wing solutions' to prison

Is there anything the prisons minister does know about prisons?

Post in prison - the prison minister can't answer questions

Jeremy Wright admits he has no idea if the contraband problem he has highlighted actually exists

Comment: Children's lives at risk in Grayling's new prison

Paola Uccellari: This is about life and death for children

Plans to build the biggest children's prison in Europe show just how deeply the government has failed to learn lessons about children's human rights.

Prison governors: Grayling's regime is driving us to 'tipping point'

Grayling is flanked by books as he talks to inmates with deputy prime minister Nick Clegg

Chris Grayling's "Spartan" prison regime is leading to a "tipping point" of instability, the president of the Prison Governors' Association warns

The HMRC bank account raid

HMRC's raid on your bank account: MPs warn of 'judge and jury' powers

HMRC can extract funds directly from people's bank accounts, under the new powers

New powers to take money directly from the bank accounts of people who might have paid too little tax attacked by influential group of MPs

Ukip once more

Election TV debates: Are we heading for 5-3-2?

No more 3-3-3. Time for 5-3-2?

TV debates during next year's general election look set to end up in a '5-3-2 formation', rather than being restricted to just the three main party leaders

Farage celebrates 'Ukip's Clause IV moment' as he surrounds himself with black candidates

Farage says presence of ethnic minority candidates his 'Clause IV moment'

Nigel Farage stands on stage with an assortment of black and ethnic minority Ukip candidates, as he attempts to dispel perceptions his party is racist

In other news...

Comment: The court abortion ruling which puts Northern Irish women at risk

Police walk around anti-abortion placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic, the first private clinic to offer abortions to women in Belfast.

A bar on Northern Irish women getting free abortions on the NHS means only the rich can plan their family.

Anti-detention protests spread to four removal centres

Uprising? Anti-detention protests spread to four institutions

A protest which started on Friday at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has spread to three other institutions, amid signs of nationwide unrest at the deportation process

Mortgage arrears down in first quarter of 2014

Both the number and the proportion of mortgages in arrears fell during the first quarter of 2014, according to new figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

NEA comment on 'Green Deal Home Improvement Fund'

Today the UK Government has released further information on the ‘Green Deal Home Improvement Fund’.

Clarity over public benefit and protections needed for data sharing

Tax professionals are calling on the Government to provide assurances that it is not going to start selling taxpayers’ data.

We need to consider our transport networks as “a whole”, say engineers

The Transport Committee today says that the Government must plan for new road and rail investment by looking at future passenger and freight demand by route or region, not by looking at each in isolation from each other.

A year to go to the Election, charity launches Election Planner to get disengaged groups voting

Exactly one year from the General Election, charity launches new Election Planner to get disengaged groups voting.

HMRC debt proposals contain insufficient curbs on possible abuses

HMRC debt proposals contain insufficient curbs on possible abuses, say LITRG.

BSA Chief Executive calls on sector to mould its future

Speaking at the BSA annual conference in Manchester today, Robin Fieth, Chief Executive of the BSA, called on the building society sector, regulators and policy-makers to think carefully about the future shape of the financial services sector.

HMRC relaxes mandatory filing of VAT returns online

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have agreed to relax the strict rule requiring VAT returns to be filed online.

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