But pension experts warn such a move would not be as simple as it sounds, Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, said: “A move to a flat rate of pensions tax relief, rather than the current system where relief is based on the rate of income tax paid, would be far from simple to implement.”
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Prof Marc Stettler, transport and environment lecturer at Imperial College London, says changing the altitude of fewer than 2% of flights could potentially reduce contrail-linked climate change by a staggering 59%. “Tweaking the flight elevation by just a thousand feet can stop some contrails from forming,” he explains.
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Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said while a buoyant used-car market was “important, as strong residual values support new car transactions”, it was “critical we have a healthy new car market to help accelerate fleet renewal by allowing motorists to replace older, less efficient vehicles with the latest, cleanest models”.
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Mark Derry, executive chairman of Brasserie Bar Co, which owns the Brasserie Blanc chain of restaurants and whose chef patron is Raymond Blanc, told the BBC that while trading was holding up well, costs were rising which means it would have to raise prices for diners.
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“All those people who had been in the army and the other armed forces came back into employment, tax revenue went up, the government was spending less on armaments – that’s not going to happen now, so I think it is considerably more difficult to bring down the stock of debt to GDP than it […]
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A resident in a Birmingham tower block that is having combustible cladding removed, in the wake of the Grenfell disaster, explains his plight. Leaseholder Jim Illingworth is glad that the government is funding the removal of the dangerous cladding. But he, and others like him around the country, still face financial and mental stresses as […]
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Located some 1,200 miles (2,000 km) west of the African nation of Angola, and 2,500 miles east of Brazil, St Helena has a population of around 4,500 people, and is 47 sq miles (121 sq km) in size. To put that into context, it has about the same landmass as Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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“As our economy recovers from the pandemic, we need trade deals that will boost jobs and growth, open up big new markets for UK exporters, and support our objectives to buy, make and sell more in Britain. This trade deal with New Zealand fails on every count,” she said.
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“It is not impossible, according to some, to foresee at least a partial melting of the polar ice caps, which would certainly result in significant sea level rise. The catastrophic consequences are easy to imagine,” the Total Information article said.
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“If the group is unable to meet its guarantee obligation or to repay any debt when due or agree with its creditors on renewal or extension of its borrowings or alternative arrangements, it would have a material adverse effect on the group’s business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.”
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