The government has sold a further £500m of Lloyds Banking Group shares through a trading plan launched in December, taking the total amount of money recovered for the taxpayer from the bank to just under £8bn.
The Bank of England has said it is prepared to cut rates further and expand its quantitative easing (QE) programme should the current downward slide in inflation worsen.
The government's pensioner bond scheme is to run for a further three months, the Chancellor has confirmed.
The government's guidance guarantee providers will not be properly staffed by April and will lack the right level of expertise to deliver the service, a pensions expert has warned.
More than half of a 'representative sample' of workers questioned in a recent survey said they were unaware the government's pension reforms had happened.
The sharp fall in the UK inflation rate should not be feared, Chancellor George Osborne will say in a speech later.
The UK government is to sell another tranche of shares in Lloyds Banking Group as it moves to return the bank to private ownership.
Chairman of the Treasury Committee (TC) Andrew Tyrie has again called for the abolition of the Money Advice Service (MAS), in a series of letters published on 30 November.
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