Starmer has announced a consultation into setting a minimum age for social media. Before that consultation takes place, however, ministers will write a clause into the existing children's wellbeing and schools bill that will enable them to enforce a ban quickly, if that's what the consultation recommends. These so-called Henry VIII powers allow the government to use secondary legislation to enforce an age limit, rather than writing an entirely new bill.
Shabana Mahmood's radical plans to overhaul the asylum system could cause unintended consequences such as increased homelessness among people seeking refuge and growing case backlogs, Whitehall's spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, has concluded. Rajeev Syal has the story. Here is the NAO's report. And here is its eight-page summary. Share Good morning. It is PMQs today, but Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is also facing intense scrutiny in the Commons today.
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.
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.
