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Tuesday, 06 April 2021
The Chancellor chaired a meeting with G7 counterparts today where they agreed an ambitious green agenda ahead of COP26, the UN Convention on Biologica...
Tuesday, 06 April 2021
A new government-backed loan scheme launches today (6 April) to provide additional finance to those businesses that need it. ...
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
The Chancellor of the Exchequer visited a local engineering firm in Grimsby today (31 March) to mark the start of the biggest 2-year business tax cut ...
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
The UK has bolstered its position as a world-leader in Islamic finance by issuing its second sovereign Sukuk today (25 March 2021)....
Friday, 26 March 2021
Technical discussions on the text of the Memorandum of Understanding, which was agreed in a Joint Declaration on Financial Services Regulatory Coopera...
Friday, 26 March 2021
The speech at the European House Ambrosetti’s virtual spring forum as delivered by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay....
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Business ratepayers adversely affected by COVID-19 are to get a £1.5 billion discount on their bills....
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Government-backed finance helped thousands of businesses through the pandemic with a loan issued through the Bounce Back Loan scheme roughly every 20 ...
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day, 24 March 2021, appointed Neil Charles Gray to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead...
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Julia Black and Jill May have been reappointed by The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, as external members of the Prudential Regulation Commi...
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The Chancellor has reappointed Bronwyn Curtis OBE as a non-executive member of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)....
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The UK has extended its global leadership on green finance by requiring its principal financial regulators to consider climate change, it was announce...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
The government has today published a series of tax documents and consultations in a move to strengthen policymaking and help create a more trusted, si...
Friday, 19 March 2021
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his G7 counterparts today agreed to back proposals for vulnerable countries to receive further financial support during the...
Friday, 19 March 2021
The government has successfully completed a £1.1 billion sale of part of its holding in NatWest Group plc (NatWest, formerly the Royal Bank of Scotlan...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak and US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen spoke on the phone earlier this evening (15 March 2021) to discuss a ...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Amanda Blanc has been appointed as HM Treasury’s new Women in Finance Champion and will spearhead efforts to boost gender diversity across UK financia...
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Michael Robert Hill appointed to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern. ...
Thursday, 11 March 2021
The Finance Bill puts into law measures announced at Budget to help ensure millions of jobs and livelihoods continue to be protected as part of the go...
Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Delivered by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak on 3 March....
Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Budget....
Wednesday, 03 March 2021
In a Budget which ‘meets the moment’, the Chancellor has today (3 March) set out a £65 billion three-point plan to provide support for jobs and busine...
Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Reforms to the rules that govern how companies raise finance on public markets will ensure the UK remains one of the most attractive places to grow an...
Friday, 26 February 2021
A £5 billion sale of Bradford & Bingley plc and NRAM Limited (formerly Northern Rock) and their remaining loans, acquired by the taxpayer as a result ...
Friday, 26 February 2021
An independent review has set out a plan for the UK to retain its global leadership in fintech by helping the country’s financial technology firms to ...
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
A multibillion-pound fund to level-up opportunities is being extended so that people in every region and nation of the UK can benefit, it was announce...
Friday, 19 February 2021
The final report of the government’s fundamental review of business rates will now be published in the Autumn, it was announced today, 19 February....
Thursday, 18 February 2021
The government will publish a number of tax-related consultations and calls for evidence at the end of March....
Friday, 12 February 2021
The Chancellor today called on his international counterparts to make climate and nature considerations a central part of all economic and financial d...
Monday, 08 February 2021
Businesses that took out government-backed Bounce Back Loans to get through Covid-19 will now have greater flexibility to repay their loans, the gover...
Attorney General's Office Sentence increase for predatory paedophile
Rail Accident Investigation Branch Tram derailment at Piccadilly tram stop
Cabinet Office Queen Elizabeth Trust launched to strengthen communities across the United Kingdom
UK Health Security Agency RSV maternal vaccine cuts baby hospital admissions by up to 85%
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street PM call with President Aoun of Lebanon: 17 April 2026