All news on the topic: The Treasury

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Energy bills 20% hike in April set to be scrapped as Tories bow to pressure
The Energy Price Guarantee is currently set at £2,500 a year for the typical household and is set to increase to £3,000 from April, but this looks now set to be delayed
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'Epidemic' of bank branch closures hitting UK high streets, MPs are warned
Labour's Alex Davies-Jones triggered a Commons debate about the wave of closures sweeping villages and town and city centres as people switch to cashless online transactions
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Anti-waste hit squad will stop money being flushed down drain, vows Labour
Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Office for Value for Money will comb through spending decisions and have powers to investigate government contracts
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Tories 'can afford one-off bonus for workers' as economic outlook improves
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the UK's finances were in slightly better shape - but tax hikes or spending cuts could be needed to meet union demands for pay rises in line with inflation
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Jeremy Hunt's Treasury slammed by watchdog for 'misleading' inflation tweet
The Office for Statistics Regulation has written to the ministry's communications supremo after a controversial post by the Treasury showing small falls in the cost of living
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Voters now believe Starmer best to manage economy as they turn on Sunak
The survey comes as a fresh blow to the Prime Minister whose party is trailing Labour in the national polls. One expert said it 'should ring some alarm bells in No10'
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'Let workers keep all of emergency cost-of-living payments', say company bosses
The Confederation of British Industry wants Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next month's Budget to make sure staff are not penalised if firms give them one-off payments
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Jeremy Hunt 'planning to tell GPs not to sign people off long-sick in Budget'
The Chancellor is said to be looking into ways of driving down the number of people signed off sick - but it has sparked concerns that people could be forced into work when they're not well enough
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Tory council chief quits with blast at Jeremy Hunt over forced tax rises
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council leader Drew Mellor slammed the Treasury which he said appears 'determined that the future of local government is one of maximum council tax and cuts to services'
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Buy now, pay later set for major crackdown under new rules to protect borrowers
A new consultation has launched today and will look at how buy now, pay later (BNPL) products could be brought under Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulation
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Treasury splashed £3,000 on arty photos when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor
Despite already having access to the vast Government Art Collection - some 14,700 works - the purchase of 13 'fine art photographs' was made at the taxpayers’ expense in March 2021
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Sunak and Tories accused of 'scandalous catalogue of waste' with lavish spending
In a new dossier, Keir Starmer's Labour claims taxpayers' money has been used to fund extravagant events, expensive restaurants and five-star hotels using Government Procurement Cards
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Tories' huge bills on five-star jaunts uncovered as Labour publish 'GPC Files'
Ministers are supposed to stay in the most cost-effective hotels, under official guidelines - but Tory bigwigs have spent millions treating themselves to luxury on the taxpayer's tab
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5 bits of bad news slipped out by the Tories before Parliament's half-term break
Parliament has gone into its half term recess and MPs aren't due to return to the Commons until February 20 - giving the Government an ideal moment to rush out some tricky announcements
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Bungling ministers pay £2.3bn after allowing criminal gangs to flog cheap goods
Tory MP John Glen, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, admitted handing over the massive sum to settle a dispute which has rumbled on for 12 years
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Nearly half of Tories want Election this year to sweep Rishi Sunak out of No10
A sensational Sunday Mirror poll today shows that 48% who declared themselves Conservative voters last time either strongly support or support going to the ballot box in 2023 That rises to 61% of all voters
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Yvette Cooper tells Suella Braverman 'I don't know what you do'
The shadow Home Secretary urged her Tory counterpart to 'get out of the way and let somebody else do the job' as she lashed out over the government's crime failings
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Warning teacher strikes could last until summer - all your questions answered
Last-ditch talks with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan failed to break the deadlock on Monday, with union leaders saying the top Tory 'squandered' the chance to call off walkouts by refusing to get serious on pay
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Neil Kinnock warned you about Tories 40 years ago - now he's warning you again
Neil Kinnock gave his famous 'I warn you' speech just days before Margaret Thatcher won the 1983 general election by a landslide, 40 years later, he says his prophetic words are now "so close to reality"
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Union chief demands summit with Rishi Sunak to end wave of strikes
New TUC boss Paul Nowak told the Sunday Mirror in an exclusive interview: “The PM must get me and union leaders into the room to sort this out. We’ll go to No10 tomorrow. The ball is in his court.”
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Unpaid taxes rose by £5billion in Nadhim Zahawi's three months as chancellor
The Liberal Democrats, who uncovered the figures, accused the Tories of 'allowing eye-watering amounts of taxes to go unpaid while our local health services are left desperately underfunded and overstretched'
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Millions 'set to work longer under plans to fast forward state pension age rise'
The current state pension age for women and men retiring now is 66, but it will rise to 67 between 2026 and 2028 but this is steadily increasing over the next few years
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Rishi Sunak urged to 'grow a backbone' and sack Nadhim Zahawi over £5m tax row
Rishi Sunak ordered a probe and admitted there were 'questions that need answering' as the Tory party Chair and former Chancellor hung onto his job for another day
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'The NHS strikes are a calamity - not just a bad day in Downing Street'
Ministers' refusal to engage in talks with unions will result in deaths, and proves they don't have our interests at heart, says Paul Routledge
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'Clarke's insulting nurses comments prove Tories don't value NHS and its staff'
Today Simon Clarke, who served as a Cabinet Minister when Liz Truss was Prime Minister, had the gall to tell nurses relying on foodbanks they needed to 'budget better and take responsibility'