Compliance & Regulation

Young people who never smoke could spend around a decade more of their lives in good health than those who start smoking at 18 and remain lifelong smokers. This is according to...

Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) raised a further £69m for the Treasury in June 2024, according to latest HM Revenue & Customs tax receipts data. Following a record £8.1bn of IPT collections last...

The Labour government has pledged to take action to get people back in employment following the impact of the pandemic, as part of measures announced in today's King Speech. Since the pandemic...

The new Labour government has pledged to cut NHS wait times, make the Mental Health Act fit for purpose and retrieve the Conservative's tobacco sale restrictions bill as part of the King's...

A mortgage and protection advice firm has had its permissions to operate cancelled by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after failing to pay more than £3,500 of fees from 2019. The regulator...

Four in 10 advisers have changed their client servicing approach as a result of Consumer Duty. This is according to Royal London’s biannual adviser survey, where 528 respondents were questioned about the...

Employee assistance programme (EAP) provider Health Assured has denied claims in a BBC investigation that it has breached the confidentiality of its users by allowing corporate clients to eavesdrop on calls.  The...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) took on 11.7% more private medical insurance (PMI) or dental cases in its 2023/24 financial year. Data released this morning reveals the Ombudsman took on 1,621 new...

The number of people waiting for NHS treatment increased by more than 31,000 in May to go back above 7.6 million people, according to official data. The data showed the number of...

Group private medical insurance (PMI) premiums are rising at such a level that some employers are considering ending cover entirely. But these companies are in a very small minority as the vast...