HM Treasury

PENSIONS

The Treausry has confirmed occupational pension schemes will not be forced to comply with gender neutrality legislation when providing members with annuities.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is urging the Chancellor to reconsider plans to direct regulatory fines to government coffers.

The government has held firm in its refusal to bow to pressure to give almost six million children access to junior individual savings accounts (ISA).

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has expressed its frustration at the slow pace at which changes to the regulatory structure are taking place.

A government minister has joined the growing number of voices expressing concerns about Money Advice Service chief executive Tony Hobman's remuneration package.

Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, has asked George Osborne to respond to suggestions from Barclays that retrospective tax action taken against the bank earlier this year was "unwarranted".

GENDER

Treasury resources were 'stretched and unprepared' for the 2008 financial crisis, according to a damning new report.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is still hopeful of more amendments to the Financial Services Bill, including the reintroduction of a long-stop, after the legislation progressed through its latest stage.