Only 200 old age pensioners have voluntarily stopped their winter fuel payment in the last decade, the Sun reports. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has made several appeals for wealthy pensioners to hand back the money, which David Cameron has protected from welfare cuts. But figures obtained under the Freedom...
The number of people applying for emergency handouts to meet the costs of their rent ...
MPs have been accused of "demonising" US multinationals over their tax arrangements f...
There is a clear link between tax evasion and global poverty, the former Archbishop o...
George Osborne’s 2015-16 spending plans have been cast into doubt after ministers ide...
Margaret Hodge disputed that Google’s tax arrangements were sanctioned by the law, and called on HMRC to challenge the search engine giant. “It’s not clear to me ...
Labour press release Chris Leslie MP, Labour's Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the PAC report on the National Infrastructure Plan, said:...
ONS press release The Burden of Property Debt in Great Britain The share of households in Great Britain who thought making their mortgage payments was ‘a heavy...
The Road Back to Full Employment – Speech by Liam Byrne Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, in a speech to IPPR North, said: There are fe...
IPPR trustees David Claydon and Clive Hollick argue that the big banks really are in much better shape now, and that it is inconsistent and unpredictable regulation ...
Labour press release Diane Abbott MP, Labour's Shadow Public Health Minister, urges David Cameron to explain plain packaging broken promise: "This is deeply co...
Office for National Statistics Today the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes new findings from the 2011 Census, which expand on previously published st...
No one is whispering green shoots yet. But there’s a glimmer of good news for George Osborne today as fresh data surveys suggest that the dreaded ‘Trip Dip’ rec...
Civitas press release The Catch 22 for UK manufacturing • Whitehall policy is reinforcing Britain's competitive disadvantage • An active industrial policy is...
Danny Alexander has warned that all government departments have to take their “fair share” of the £11.5bn savings to be set out in the next spending review. The a...
Labour press release Hilary Benn MP, Labour's Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, responding to the latest planning reform proposal by Eric Pickles...
When I was Archbishop of Canterbury, I regularly found that it was work in the area of international development that most engaged and inspired me. I was deligh...
GMB press release Closures, problems with the 111 service, bed cuts, job cuts, fragmentation and privatisation are contributing to one of the biggest crises in a ...
Laura Sandys said companies needed to translate appliance units of consumption into ones "people actually understand". “I think ultimately we’ve got the wrong uni...
Nigel Mills said he had seen ATOS assesments that were "clearly wrong" from his own assesments. "Clearly in my constituency casework I have people coming to me re...
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