Private schools vote for legal action over VAT plans
The Independent Schools Council, which represents 1,400 schools, votes to proceed with legal action....
Category : Politics
GPs, care homes and hospices voice concern over Budget tax rises
The NHS is exempt from the rise in employer National Insurance contributions, but private providers are not....
Secretary of State triggers protocol vote process
Controversially unlike other Stormont votes, there is no requirement for cross-community support....
Budget 2024: Key points at a glance
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered Labour’s first Budget since 2010 – here’s what you need to know....
NHS must improve productivity, says Streeting
Health secretary says he expects value for money for taxpayers after £25 billion cash injection....
Warning tax rises could force care homes to close
Social care providers say the sector is in “unprecedented danger” without more funding....
Bill Gates criticises Budget cut to overseas aid
Hidden in the Budget was a decision not to renew a Tory-era £2.5bn top-up to the UK’s overseas aid budget....
Labour hands £1.5bn pensions pot back to miners
The government has received £4.8bn from the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme through a deal struck in 1994....
Green farming budget freeze ‘will hit nature work’
Environmental groups warn that next year’s farm payments budget will not be enough to protect nature....
Farmers ‘betrayed’ by £1m inheritance tax relief cap
Changes announced to inheritance tax rules could see the end of small family farms, warns the NFU....