Overview

This is the second edition of the Wragge & Co public law and regulation team's Coalition Watch alert series, which highlights and comments on developments relating to the new government.

In the first Coalition Watch the firm considered some of the radical changes proposed by the Coalition Government during its first 100 days in office.

In the last fortnight covered by this edition, things have surely been quieter? It's August. Parliament is away for the long summer recess. The Prime Minister has been on holiday in Cornwall (and concerned with the delivery of things even more important than the Coalition Programme). The Deputy Prime Minister has been minding the shop. Her Majesty's Opposition is distracted by its own elections for a new leader.

All true. But there has still been a fair amount of activity in government. The machinery of public administration does not stop for the summer holidays, and the Coalition has continued to put in place the building blocks for its autumn agenda.

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