THE mini budget measures brought in by the UK Government are an "attack on nature and devolution", Scottish Government ministers have said.
Minister for Environment and Land Reform Mairi McAllan and Minister for Biodiversity Lorna Slater have written to the UK government calling on them to scrap the “anti-nature” measures announced by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng last week.
In a letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Ranil Jayawardena MP, the ministers said that the measures “represent an attack on nature (when we should be demonstrating global leadership in the lead up to the important CoP15 global summit), and on the devolved settlement itself.”
