Gary Gibbon
Work programme needs more work
It’s not written in the most strident language, but a report the government has been sitting on contains confirmation that one of the DWP’s pet projects is failing in one of its central tasks.
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Budget 2014: for ‘makers, doers and savers’
Chancellor George Osborne announces a budget for savers after years of low interest rates, with a boost to tax-free ISAs, new pensioner bonds and changes to pensions.
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Budget 2014: what to expect from George Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his fifth budget on Wednesday. It is bound to include measures that could not have been predicted, but here is what we can expect.
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Tax-free childcare: do the numbers add up?
The government says millions of families will benefit from a more generous childcare subsidy – but there is no new money on the table.
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Speed up HS2 and scrap link to channel tunnel – Higgins
The northern section of the £50bn high-speed rail line should be completed faster and the link with HS1 scrapped, according to HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: does Labour’s youth jobs guarantee add up?
Labour wants to raid bankers’ bonuses to create jobs for young people. The Conservatives say the sums don’t add up.
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Mystery of missing £400,000 housing benefit payments
Hundreds of thousands of pounds in housing benefit payments have “disappeared” after being paid to one of Britain’s biggest property agents, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Government Jobmatch site filled with duplicate job listings
The government’s Universal Jobmatch website continues to list potentially bogus and duplicated job ads, despite our recent investigations into its misuse.
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Did your child get a place at the school of your choice?
With more than 500,000 children learning which secondary school they are going to in September, Channel 4 News asks: did you get a place at your first choice school?
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Why the 1970s were better than you think
The 1970s get a bad press. Economic ruin, union strife, racism, Jimmy Savile, embarrassing music – the list is endless. But was this decade really as bad as it’s portrayed?
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish independence: milk, oil and granite
The PM is whizzing into Aberdeen, the granite city, on an RAF flight that the SNP MP Angus Robertson has coined “Scare Force One”.
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Yes/No Scotland: Cameron and Salmond do battle over oil
David Cameron and Alex Salmond chair meetings in the UK’s oil and gas capital, Aberdeen, in the latest clash over Scottish independence and set out their plans for North Sea exploration.
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FactCheck: is the government starving the poor?
Bishops think there is a link between food poverty and government welfare reforms. But what is the hard evidence?
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Bedroom tax ‘unlawful’ appeal rejected by court
The court of appeal upholds the legality of government cutbacks in the benefits system, as judges reject accusations that the so-called “bedroom tax” unlawfully discriminates against the disabled.
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Heat or eat? Church of England bishops’ hunger plea
Twenty-seven bishops condemn the government’s “punitive” welfare reforms, which they say have forced people into food and fuel poverty.
