In his first budget speech, the chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s plan to “tackle the UK’s productivity challenge”.

Experts from top firm KPMG have responded to Philip Hammond’s first ever Budget. 

Chris Cummings, Chief Executive of the Investment Association (IA), has responded to the Chancellor's Budget statement.

Chancellor using sticking plaster solutions, rather than making difficult decisions, says Saga.

After Philip Hammond’s first Spring Budget, experts of the leading professional services firm, EY, give their take on everything from beer to Business Rates Relief to driverless cars. 

As the Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers his 2017 Budget, the Chartered Institute of Building’s Eddie Tuttle reacts to today’s headline announcements affecting construction and the built environment.

The final Spring Budget has been met with mixed reactions from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). 

Most vulnerable households still facing significant challenges over the next year.

Brexit-fuelled inflation deepens pay crisis for teaching assistants, refuse collectors, and midwives as union demands end to worst salary squeeze since Thatcher.

Marking International Women’s Day, the CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute speaks to PoliticsHome on what the insurance industry can to do alleviate gender equality.

The GMB's National Secretary for Public Services Rehana Azam makes the case to the PM & the Chancellor for a pay rise for the five million ‘just about managing’ public sector workers to be announced in today's Budget.

Justice secretary Liz Truss has been urged to review how vital interpreter contracts are awarded and how they operate, following reports that Pearl Linguistics has gone into liquidation.

Britain’s leading business for the over 50s has urged the Chancellor to use his March Budget to spark a grey revolution and help the thousands of families currently seeking homes.

The pressure of dental practice, including increasing patient demands, business worries and rising complaints and claims, is pushing some practitioners to the brink, the Dental Defence Union (DDU) has warned. 

Sector-specific relief is needed for to address the current imbalance in business rates system, argues Greg Mulholland MP.

Changes will need to be wide ranging and will go to the very core of the UK tax system.

Local authorities are ‘the forgotten cousins’ of public expenditure, as the financial crisis facing social care gathers pace, Unite, the country’s largest union, said today (Monday 6 March).

Young bookworms enjoy ‘novel’ day out at Airbus

Priority needs to be given to supporting aspects of the tax system that bolster our international competitiveness, but the guiding principle for any changes needs to be simplification of the tax system.

Union for foster carers welcomes ministerial climbdown over plans to allow councils to opt out of duty to support and training for foster families.

In anticipation of the Government’s triggering of Article 50 this month, the MPA has updated its ‘Brexit priorities for the Mineral Products industry’ briefing, outlining the key points that the Government should take into account as it begins the process of withdrawing the UK from the European Union. 

This week Coca-Cola European Partners spoke at a ‘Women in the workplace’ conference in which the company urged the Government to work with companies to get more females into the industry.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers' union in the UK has commented on the announcement that PSHE is to be taught in all schools and sex and relationships (SRE) is to be taught in all secondary schools.

Nearly 1,500 branches of Unite, Britain and Ireland’s biggest trade union, have made nominations in the election for the union’s general secretary – the largest number ever.