George Osborne has announced that Whitehall departments will make an additional £3bn in spending cuts this year, but the local government finance settlement will not be reopened.
The two government bodies that manage most of the taxpayer’s stakes in business are to be merged into a single company, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
Councils in Greater Manchester and around Cambridge are to be allowed to retain all additional business rate growth from next month, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget as he urged...
The UK has announced that it is to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which will provide finance for economic infrastructure projects in the region.
Chancellor George Osborne’s claim that he halved the UK government’s £1.7bn bill from the European Commission late last year is ‘not supported by published information’, the Treasury select committee...
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
Chancellor George Osborne has today been urged to block attempts by the state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland to increase the level of bonuses it can pay employees