proportionate

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Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for housing, Sian Gwenllian MP, said the party had "always" called for a "proportionate approach" to implementing the 182-day rule, including where properties would not be eligible as full-time residences.

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Trans rights campaigners Translucent say that for many trans people the debate is "excruciatingly difficult", that these cases are rare and when rights "clash" then that needs to be handled in a proportionate way.

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However, they added a "proportionate" package of national security mitigations had been developed for the site.

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The Met has said it was confident the use of LFR was lawful and proportionate.

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A judge sitting at Staines Magistrates' Court on Thursday deemed the use of the private jet "not necessary or proportionate".

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