Magic numbers – free expansion of childcare
This expansion of the welfare state spends more on the better off than the poorest. There are relatively few parents who spend at or close to £10,000 a year on childcare.
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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.
This expansion of the welfare state spends more on the better off than the poorest. There are relatively few parents who spend at or close to £10,000 a year on childcare.
The government says millions of families will benefit from a more generous childcare subsidy – but there is no new money on the table.
Parents with two children pay more on childcare than they do on their mortgages, a report finds – but why is it so expensive to care for our children?
Ross McEwan missed an opportunity to do something bold on Thursday. For starters, here’s a good way to restore trust in Britain’s most mistrusted bank.
New figures show there are now more tenants in the private rented sector than the social rented sector in England, but the number of owner-occupiers was at its lowest for a decade.
An investigation is under way after confidential files relating to customers of Barclays Bank were allegedly stolen and sold on to rogue City traders.
After years of lacklustre growth, the recovery appears to be taking off at last. Good news for Chancellor George Osborne, but even he is not celebrating yet.
Today’s announcement of 0.7 per growth for the UK economy in the last quarter of 2013 is a “Goldilocks” number, says Economics Editor Faisal Islam – not too cold and not too hot.
The prosecution case moved onto allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice as the jury returned for the new year. Here are five details that came to light in the first week back.
With more and more people in the UK renting property, Channel 4 News asks if rental laws should be changed to protect tenants from being evicted.
With spiraling rents and mortgages hard to come by, Politician Diane Abbott advocates rent control in London, private landlord Richard Blanco disagrees.
The prime minister defends the government’s mortgage guarantee scheme and says critics who fear it could overheat the housing market are being “London-centric”.
Eight banks, including RBS, are fined a record 1.7bn euros for colluding to rig interest rates, but Barclays escapes punishment after blowing the whistle on the practice.
A flagship scheme to boost loans for mortgages will be scaled back by the Bank of England in an attempt to head off a potential housing bubble, as Faisal Islam reports.