Articles by Laura Sharman
HMJ: Call to cut VAT on e-cigarettes
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2022
Councils have called for VAT on e-cigarette sales to be reduced from 20% to 5% to help people sto...
HMJ: Minimum pricing not driving up cross-border purchases
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2022
People did not travel extensively outside of Scotland to buy cheaper alcohol following the introd...
HMJ: Smokefree scheme relaunched
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2022
The Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control has been relaunched to demonstrate how counci...
HMJ: Call to place alcohol addiction nurses in 'Deep End' GPs
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2022
A pilot scheme that placed specialist addiction nurses in GP surgeries across the most disadvanta...
HMJ: Progress on racial equality not 'far or fast enough'
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2022
Trust leaders are ‘angry and frustrated’ over the slow pace of progress on race equality, accordi...
HMJ: Peers reject 'regressive' change to social care cap
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2022
The House of Lords has rejected an amendment to the £86,000 care cap that would have seen people ...
Right to Buy policy has been 'strategic failure'
By Laura Sharman | 09 March 2022
Right to Buy in England has become a 'strategic failure' that has exacerbated inequalities in soc...
Report finds Havant could financially become a standalone council
By Mike Yuille | 09 March 2022
Havant BC will dip into its reserves as part of a package of measures to prepare for ending its p...
Delay to waste scheme will create 'vacuum of uncertainty'
By Dan Peters | 04 March 2022
A scheme to shift the cost of collecting household waste from taxpayers to producers has been del...
Chief in council pension funds transparency call
By Laura Sharman | 03 March 2022
A council chief executive has called for ‘full transparency’ from all local government pension sc...
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