Please note that this Annex is still in draft format and may be subject to change. This information is based upon the Milk and Healthy Snack (Scotland) Regulations 2021, which you are advised to read ...

Last week, the Scottish government announced that its Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) would be delayed until March 2024, having originally been planned for an August 2023 release. One of the reasons for ...

Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) has been delayed. The scheme, which had been due to start in August, will not now begin until 1 March 2024. The delay is proving controversial, with many ...

A UK government scheme to compensate “Windrush scandal” victims is failing and violating the rights of many to an effective remedy for human rights abuses they suffered. The Windrush generation that ...

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A UK Government minister blocked a Scottish deposit return scheme (DRS) in order to give the SNP a “black eye”, a court has been told. Scotland’s former circular economy minister Lorna Slater accused ...

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Scottish universities have welcomed the announcement that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus student exchange scheme in 2027. The programme, which allows British students to study, train or volunteer in ...

The Scottish Government was “utterly irresponsible” in the way it tried to implement its deposit return scheme (DRS), a former UK government minister has said. Giving evidence at the Court of Session ...

Sharon George receives funding from Research England. Unrecycled drink containers are a huge problem in the UK. A survey by Planet Patrol, a non-profit organisation, found that the drinks industry was ...