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  • Bosses to freeze wages to pay for new pensions

    One in five bosses will pay for pensions by freezing or reducing pay, a report by the Institute of Directors argues. New pension rules introduced last October require big companies to pay into a pension for their employees, with employees also making a contribution, and the Government contributing via tax relief from 2018 o...

British Business

Labour: GDP figures show economy is back to where it was six months ago

Labour party press release Chris Leslie MP, Labour's shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, responding to the second estimate of GDP for the first quarter of...

Construction

Labour: PAC questions credibility of Government's infrastructure plan - response from Chris Leslie

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:...

Consumers

Greenpeace: Coalition MPs must heed CCC report

Greenpeace press release Ahead of the crucial Energy Bill vote on June 4, the Committee on Climate Change has reiterated that low carbon energy is unequivocally be...

Employment

Labour: David Cameron is leaving young people on the shelf - Twigg

Labour party press release Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's Education Secretary, responding to today's NEET Statistics, said: "There are an extra 32,000 young people ...

Financial Services

SNP: UK Government needs to re-think austerity agenda

SNP press release Commenting on the news that the latest IMF assessment has found that the UK economy is still a long way from 'a strong and sustainable recovery'...

Food & Drink

SNP welcome fall in alcohol sales

SNP MSP Bob Doris has welcomed statistics showing the amount of alcohol sold in Scotland has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the year since the ban on multi-buy deals was ...

Indicators

SNP: UK Government needs to re-think austerity agenda

SNP press release Commenting on the news that the latest IMF assessment has found that the UK economy is still a long way from 'a strong and sustainable recovery'...

Insurance

Trip Dip Avoided?

Trip Dip Avoided?

  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...

Manufacturing

Civitas: The Catch 22 for UK manufacturing

Civitas press release   The Catch 22 for UK manufacturing • Whitehall policy is reinforcing Britain's competitive disadvantage • An active industrial policy is...

Public Sector Finances

CWU: Royal Mail ballot

CWU press release CWU's consultative ballot of Royal Mail workers opens today (Wednesday). The union is sending ballot papers to 112,000 postal workers in Royal Ma...

Retail Sector

Labour: Eric Pickles has proposed another planning reform that will damage communities and undermine our high streets - Benn

Labour press release Hilary Benn MP, Labour's Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, responding to the latest planning reform proposal by Eric Pickles...

Tax

Eric Schmidt defends Google tax regime

Google chief Eric Schmidt has defended his company's tax arrangements following damning criticism from Ed Miliband today. Mr Schmidt said his company was "absoute...

Trade Unions

CWU: Royal Mail ballot

CWU press release CWU's consultative ballot of Royal Mail workers opens today (Wednesday). The union is sending ballot papers to 112,000 postal workers in Royal Ma...

Utilities

Laura Sandys: Companies have responsibility to translate products into a way the consumer understands

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...

Welfare

Welsh Government: Too many questions about welfare changes remain unanswered - Minister

Welsh Government press release Too many questions about welfare changes remain unanswered - Minister The UK Government’s welfare changes are throwing a question...

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