Reeves is not the first chancellor to review the rules; Rishi Sunak also reviewed the book as part of the Conservatives' Levelling up agenda.
"We have to take this incident and understand what has happened here and how it happened, and what more can we do about it," Luxon said.After a six-year delay, India is finally set to count its population in a two-phase census that will conclude in 2027, the government has announced.
India's decennial census is one of the world's largest administrative exercises andfor planning welfare schemes, allocating federal funds, drawing electoral boundaries and making key policy decisions.It was originally due in 2021, but has been delayed several times since. The last census was conducted in
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government had initially cited the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reason but critics have questioned what has taken so long to resume the exercise.On Wednesday, India's home ministry said in a statement that the much-awaited census will be conducted in two phases, with 1 March 2027 as the reference date.
For the snow-bound Himalayan regions, which includes the states of Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, and the region of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, the reference date will be 1 October 2026.
It did not, however, specify when the survey would actually begin.Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said: "Labour's botched negotiations have left businesses in limbo and this country simply cannot afford their continuing failure."
The prime minister has been warned he will fail to meet his own target of halving violence against women and girls without significant investment in services, according to two senior government watchdogs.This is the first time Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Nicole Jacobs and Victims Commissioner for England and Wales Baroness Newlove have written jointly to Sir Keir Starmer.
The pair said victim support services were being "pushed to the brink" by funding cuts and rising costs.The intervention comes ahead of the chancellor's spending review later this month, which is expected to feature cuts to some areas of public spending.