Tag: treasury
Tax credits saved at a stroke: cut benefits to the wealthy
As Chancellor Osborne prepares to unveil a new "benefit savings" proposal, Russell Bruce presents a costed alternative
George Osborne has to find savings of...
Osborne: friend of the well off and maker of ‘secret’ millionaires
Russell Bruce argues that tax allowances on savings should help the many and not just the few
Lord Ashcroft's national polls have not shown any...
Treasury chief Macpherson rapped for abandoning civil service impartiality
Report by Thomas Connolly
The head of the Treasury has had his knuckles rapped by a House of Commons select committee for his admitted bias...
Treasury admits it took a partisan approach to Scottish referendum
by Thomas Connolly
The Treasury’s most senior civil servant has confirmed that the department set aside its supposed impartiality to support the Better Together campaign...
Anger as UK Treasury looks to create anti-independence ‘propaganda’ role
By a Newsnet reporter The SNP has reacted angrily to plans by the UK Treasury to use public finances in order to recruit an...
UK inflation: is there a point to the Government’s inflation target?
by Tom Paterson, Gold Made Simple News After today’s inflation report by the Bank of England we thought it would be worthwhile to explain...
Isles MP calls for action on soaring fuel costs
Welcoming the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on a visit to the Western Isles today (Thursday) SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an...