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3 Sep 21
Cabinet ministers are reportedly at loggerheads over which taxes to increase to ensure that long-awaited social care reforms are adequately funded.
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24 Aug 20
The UK Treasury has denied reports that it is to drop the recently-implemented digital services tax amid fears it could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal.
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23 Jun 20
Former chancellor Sajid Javid has urged the government to review the current tax system to help reinvigorate the economy in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, including cutting employers’ National...
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18 Feb 20
The UK Budget will go ahead as planned on 11 March, the government has confirmed.
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13 Feb 20
Sajid Javid has resigned as chancellor and been replaced by Rishi Sunak with less than a month before he was supposed to deliver his first Budget.
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6 Feb 20
The chancellor’s aim of raising the UK’s economic growth to 2.75% per year is “unlikely” in the current climate, according to Britain’s oldest economic think-tank.
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31 Jan 20
Asking ministers to find departmental savings worth 5% was not unexpected or unprecedented, but it may be difficult to achieve and is unlikely to free up enough money to meet the government’s other...
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7 Nov 19
Chancellor Sajid Javid and his shadow counterpart John McDonnell have outlined major fiscal promises to kickstart their parties’ election campaigns.
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10 Sep 19
Chancellor Sajid Javid’s £13.8bn Spending Round is likely to exceed the government’s borrowing limits, the chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
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5 Sep 19
As the battle for Brexit rages on, the government turned around a super fast one-year Spending Round. But sustainable funding requires longer-term thinking, writes Jonathan Werran.
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4 Sep 19
International aid spending by the UK government will increase in real terms, chancellor Sajid Javid has announced.
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4 Sep 19
New chancellor Sajid Javid outlined the government’s plans for education funding as he “turned the page on austerity” in his Spending Round, although Labour criticised his commitments as “meaningless...
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31 Aug 19
The chancellor cannot fulfil the prime minister’s spending commitments without exceeding borrowing limits, a think-tank has warned.
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4 Apr 19
Members of the Windrush Generation who wrongly lost jobs, benefits, homes and access to health care will have access to at least £200m compensation.
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11 Mar 19
Funding to help local authorities keep young people away from serious crime has been halved since 2010, an umbrella group has said.
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14 Jan 19
The chancellor and the home secretary have set up a taskforce to tackle economic crime.
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2 Oct 18
Councils and their local public service partners will receive a new statutory duty to work together to combat serious violence, home secretary Sajid Javid has announced.
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4 Jun 18
Local authorities must not become a “replacement” for the security services under the government’s updated counter-terrorism strategy, council leaders have warned.
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25 May 18
Police funding will be a priority for the Home Office in next year’s spending review, the home secretary has told police officers.
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30 Apr 18
James Brokenshire had replaced Sajid Javid as housing, communities and local government secretary after Javid was appointed home secretary following Amber Rudd's resignation, the government has...
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8 Feb 18
Parliament has approved the local government finance settlement following this week’s announcement of an additional £150m for social care.
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23 Jan 18
None of the 36 local authorities that have asked for central government support to install tower block fire safety measures such as sprinklers have received any funding so far, housing secretary...
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27 Jul 17
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has named four members to the Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, which will oversee the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s efforts to recover from last month...
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25 Jul 17
The government is considering ending its Help to Buy equity loan scheme for new build leasehold properties as part of a crackdown on “unfair” practices.
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5 Jul 17
Local government needs to open up and raise its game, Sajid Javid has told the Local Government Association’s annual conference.
3 Sep 21Cabinet ministers are reportedly at loggerheads over which taxes to increase to ensure that long-awaited social care reforms are adequately funded.
24 Aug 20The UK Treasury has denied reports that it is to drop the recently-implemented digital services tax amid fears it could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal.
23 Jun 20Former chancellor Sajid Javid has urged the government to review the current tax system to help reinvigorate the economy in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, including cutting employers’ National...
18 Feb 20The UK Budget will go ahead as planned on 11 March, the government has confirmed.
13 Feb 20Sajid Javid has resigned as chancellor and been replaced by Rishi Sunak with less than a month before he was supposed to deliver his first Budget.
6 Feb 20The chancellor’s aim of raising the UK’s economic growth to 2.75% per year is “unlikely” in the current climate, according to Britain’s oldest economic think-tank.
31 Jan 20Asking ministers to find departmental savings worth 5% was not unexpected or unprecedented, but it may be difficult to achieve and is unlikely to free up enough money to meet the government’s other...
7 Nov 19Chancellor Sajid Javid and his shadow counterpart John McDonnell have outlined major fiscal promises to kickstart their parties’ election campaigns.
4 Sep 19International aid spending by the UK government will increase in real terms, chancellor Sajid Javid has announced.
4 Sep 19New chancellor Sajid Javid outlined the government’s plans for education funding as he “turned the page on austerity” in his Spending Round, although Labour criticised his commitments as “meaningless...
31 Aug 19The chancellor cannot fulfil the prime minister’s spending commitments without exceeding borrowing limits, a think-tank has warned.
4 Apr 19Members of the Windrush Generation who wrongly lost jobs, benefits, homes and access to health care will have access to at least £200m compensation.
11 Mar 19Funding to help local authorities keep young people away from serious crime has been halved since 2010, an umbrella group has said.
14 Jan 19The chancellor and the home secretary have set up a taskforce to tackle economic crime.
2 Oct 18Councils and their local public service partners will receive a new statutory duty to work together to combat serious violence, home secretary Sajid Javid has announced.
4 Jun 18Local authorities must not become a “replacement” for the security services under the government’s updated counter-terrorism strategy, council leaders have warned.
25 May 18Police funding will be a priority for the Home Office in next year’s spending review, the home secretary has told police officers.
30 Apr 18James Brokenshire had replaced Sajid Javid as housing, communities and local government secretary after Javid was appointed home secretary following Amber Rudd's resignation, the government has...
23 Jan 18None of the 36 local authorities that have asked for central government support to install tower block fire safety measures such as sprinklers have received any funding so far, housing secretary...
25 Jul 17The government is considering ending its Help to Buy equity loan scheme for new build leasehold properties as part of a crackdown on “unfair” practices.
