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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron promoted Jeremy Hunt to health secretary, replacing Andrew Lansley, and also demoted Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke in a Cabinet revamp that kept the top ministers in their posts.
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The U.K. government’s plan to sell commercial woodlands owned by the Forestry Commission, a state agency, doesn’t mean “heritage forests” will end up in the hands of the highest bidder, said Caroline Spelman , the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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U.K. Minister David Cameron’s government published a draft bill to make it easier for water users in England to switch suppliers and save consumers as much as 2 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) over the next three decades.
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U.K. ministers agreed to meet with dairy farmers that have staged protests in recent days over prices some food retailers pay them, the BBC said on its website.
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The European Union is considering phasing in new capital rules for the life insurance industry over seven years, easing the burden on insurers who had criticized the changes.
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European Union farm policy is “morally wrong” because it undercuts agriculture in developing countries with import tariffs and export subsidies, said Caroline Spelman , the U.K. environment secretary.
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Prime Minister David Cameron bowed to protests and abandoned plans to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of state-owned woodland in England in the biggest policy U-turn since his government took power last May.
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The U.K. will make publicly listed companies report their greenhouse-gas output, the first country to do so as it calls on big business to clean up its act.
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European Union proposals on future farm spending set out today may be the beginning of more than a year of debate among the bloc’s 27 member states on the scale of agricultural subsidies.
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Tobacco companies led by Altria Group Inc. and Reynolds American Inc. must get U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to sell products introduced or changed in the past four years, a move that may let the agency keep more addictive items off the market.
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