"Officials spend a lot of time generating proposals – many not commissioned by politicians.
"Drilling proposals in Sussex have already been turned down".
Charities and the non-government sector welcomed elements of Bishop's proposals, such as the focus on female involvement and performance benchmarks, but raised concern over the need to ensure benefits from "aid for trade" flowed to the people in greatest need and reduced poverty.
Offering Scotland more power over tax rates, spending and welfare, the proposals would be ready for implementation in the first Westminster parliamentary session after the 2015 general election, the chancellor added.
Guido Fawkes has published a complete set of the reform proposals - you can read that here.
In Brussels on Tuesday, Yatsenyuk thanked the OSCE for its plan but said Ukraine had its own proposals for ending the crisis and that the people of his country should settle the issue themselves.
Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is to chair the first in a series of meetings that will include national MPs, government figures and regional officials in line with proposals drafted by the OSCE – a transatlantic security and rights group that includes Russia and the US.
Ministers, who are known to have been agonising over the benefits proposals, may have decided that would have been a provocation too far.
Related: Rightwing Northern League makes gains in Italian elections Although welcomed by the Italian government, the proposals have done little to deter the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the country's rising far right.
"It seems like so many of these rules or changes or regulations or proposals are out to protect the trappers," said York, who is the head of Trap-Free Montana Public Lands.
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, told reporters on Sunday that all proposals to tackle the problem of violence against women should be considered.
