All news on the topic: Treasury

28 Apr 2025 867

Pay more or cut costs: the government prepares the system for a new wave of strikes

Pay rises for NHS staff and teachers must be paid from existing budgets, the Treasury has warned, setting up the potential for strike action.

Finance

01 Apr 2025 815

Car tax rules are changing from today

The beginning of April means major new car tax changes are coming into effect, impacting motorists across the UK.

Finance

26 Mar 2025 752

Rachel Reeves announces harsh welfare cuts, pushing 250,000 people into poverty as Labour chooses austerity over taxing the ultra-wealthy

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver a press conference from Downing Street following her Spring Statement which saw billions of pounds of welfare cuts announced

26 Feb 2025 707

Parents of children under five may be exempt from the UK’s two-child benefit limit

Ministers are exploring options to reduce child poverty without completely eliminating the rule.

Politics

21 Feb 2025 580

Reeves breaks her fiscal rules and borrows £11.6 billion more than this time last year

Rachel Reeves is borrowing £11.6 billion more than she did at this time last year.

Politics

21 Feb 2025 656

Rachel Reeves receives a £15 billion tax boost to UK finances, which is smaller than expected

January surplus remains the highest on record but is below the £20bn predicted by City economists.

Politics

01 Feb 2025 604

Kemi Badenoch’s top team oversaw departments that lost £20,000 a minute to fraudsters

New analysis reveals that since 2019, over £44 billion of taxpayer money was lost to fraud in departments under the Tories - often while they were run by members of Ms Badenoch’s Shadow Cabinet.

News

20 Feb 2024 1013

Eight in 10 Brits deem toilet roll 'essential' - but government charge VAT on it

Shoppers across the UK are paying almost £250 million a year in VAT alone, on the household item - with the typical home getting through 127 rolls a year

Finance

01 Oct 2023 1426

British families face losing £3,500 from their bank accounts from next year

Families in the UK are on course to have £3,500 less in their bank accounts next year ahead of the General Election due to future tax rises, claimed a leading economics thinktank

Finance

17 Aug 2023 1180

Banks to face fines if they don't provide access to free cash withdrawals

Under the new rules, the UK's financial industry regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will have the power to fine banks that fail to provide free access to withdraw money

Politics

17 Feb 2023 863

Kwasi Kwarteng still backs 'general direction' of economy-destroying mini budget

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng is sticking by the "general direction" of his mini budget that crashed the UK economy, but admits that he has regrets

Finance

07 Feb 2023 856

'Digital pound' could be launched by the Bank of England - what we know so far

The Bank of England said the "digital pound" would not be "volatile" like cryptocurrencies because it would come from a legislated organisation rather than a private sector

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