Oct 14, 2019 | Government Announcements
Budget 2019 is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 6 November, Chancellor Sajid Javid has confirmed. Whether or not Budget 2019 takes place on 6 November depends largely on the UK securing a deal to leave the EU before 11pm on 31 October 2019. If no deal is reached,...Oct 11, 2019 | Government Announcements
Fears of an imminent recession fuelled by uncertainty around Brexit have proven unfounded according to figures released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS published its quarterly report on gross domestic product (GDP) for the months from...Oct 1, 2019 | Government Announcements
Business groups want more support to help employers meet the Chancellor's pledge to raise the national living wage (NLW) to £10.50 an hour by 2024. Chancellor Sajid Javid announced the planned hike alongside lowering the age threshold for those who qualify for the NLW...Sep 5, 2019 | Government Announcements
Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced an additional £13.8 billion day-to-day spending on Government departments for 2020/21. In the Spending Review on 4 September 2019, the Chancellor said he was "turning the page on austerity", increasing funding for areas including...Aug 29, 2019 | Government Announcements
New measures have been introduced to make it easier for help-to-buy borrowers to take out 35-year mortgages. The changes, which took effect on 28 August 2019, were introduced on the back of remortgaging difficulties faced by homeowners using the help-to-buy scheme....