Politics

The chancellor's freezing of inheritance tax will contribute to more and more people being caught out by 'stealth' taxes over the next five years. Autumn Budget documents reveal chancellor Rishi Sunak's freezing...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s decision not to raise the personal allowance limit and thresholds for Income Tax is expected to earn the government an additional £20bn in the next four years. Sunak did...

Business rates will be maintained for another year from April, chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed. Announcing the details as part of his second budget of the year, Sunak (pictured) said he had...

Government spending on healthcare is set to increase by £30bn per year by the end of the Parliament. Delivering his Budget speech this afternoon, chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed that while spending on...

The reduction or removal of insurance premium tax (IPT) from health insurance products and tax breaks for employers supporting staff are top of advisers' wish list ahead of the Budget today. Reports...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has raised concerns about the number of GPs available to start picking up the backlog of patients as they begin to return. The regulator noted that over...

NHS dental appointments collapsed to just 2% of their normal levels in the middle of the pandemic last year and barely reached a third of typical volumes by the end of the...

The success of financial support given during the Covid pandemic and the rapid economic recovery means governments are less likely to choose austerity in future shocks, according to Aviva Investors. The insurer...

Health secretary Sajid Javid told the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester that business as usual for the NHS "cannot be good enough". He said his department's review into leadership in the NHS...

Introducing simple protection policies, group risk auto-enrolment and microinsurance products would help reduce lower-income customers’ exclusion from insurance, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has said. The panel of lower-income people...