Cuts to social housing rents announced by Chancellor George Osborne will be of little or no benefit to most of the 3.9 million tenants in the sector, but will save the Treasury around £1.7bn, an...
The government’s tax and benefit changes will cost poorest households an average of £460 a year, despite the minimum wage increase, a Trades Union Congress analysis has found.
The summer Budget heralded the beginning of a new round of reform for the Local Government Pension Scheme. Funds are now working together in an effort to become masters of their own destiny
Plans to lower social housing rents by 1% a year for the next four years could lead to as many as 42,000 fewer homes being built across the country, the government has been warned.
George Osborne’s decision to spread the government’s £12bn welfare cuts over four years has pushed back the year the public finances will reach a surplus to 2019/20, the Institute...
Former Treasury special adviser Julia Goldsworthy told CIPFA conference that the chancellor had delivered a ‘bold’ Budget, focusing on his key themes of lower taxes, lower welfare and...
Devolution in England is gathering pace. In the Budget, the chancellor made it clear that he considered that the process of shifting power away from Westminster has only just begun.
The Budget gave us the answers to where the £12bn in welfare cuts will come from. But we need a more sustainable and strategic approach to the drivers of welfare spending.
Cornwall is set to be the first county to secure a devolution deal from the government, while discussions are underway to reach devolution deals with four cities in England, George Osborne has...
The maximum amount that households can claim in benefits is to be cut from £26,000 to £23,000 in London, and £20,000 in the rest of the country, from next April as part of plans to...
Public sector pay increases will be capped at 1% for the next four years as part of efforts to get the public finances in surplus by 2019/20, Chancellor George Osborne announced in his post-election...
Middle-income households will be the hardest hit by planned government spending reductions on public services, an analysis for the Trades Union Congress has found.
Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to use this week’s Budget to introduce reforms to the UK’s “creaking and increasingly incoherent tax system” by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
There will be a second Budget on July 8 to implement the Conservative manifesto pledges including a £12bn cut to welfare spending, George Osborne announced
Trade union Unison today warned that council-run services such as youth centres, museums and pest controls will close across England if the next government implements the fiscal plan set out in March...
George Osborne’s statement included no details on tax rises or how to improve public sector efficiency, but the next government will likely need both to meet fiscal targets.
Public spending is set to increase from 2019/20, bringing austerity to an end a year earlier than planned, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget.
Debt as a proportion of national income is to start falling, allowing Chancellor George Osborne to meet the fiscal target he set five years ago, he said today.