HM Treasury

The consultation to end compulsory annuitisation should lead to increased flexibility for retirees. Helen Morrissey asks if this is the case.

The government is set to scrap the requirement to purchase an annuity and abolish alternatively secured pensions.

George Osborne is calling on the public to send him their best ideas on how to get more for less from our public services.

The head of the UK's new fiscal watchdog will step down in the summer when his three-month contract expires, a spokesman for the Treasury said last night.

Former shareholders of Bradford & Bingley (B&B) should not get any compensation after the troubled lender was divided and sold, an independent valuer says.

Lloyds shareholders have made a £14bn claim against the Treasury and bosses at the banking giant over its controversial takeover of HBOS in 2008.

Britain had its AAA credit rating affirmed by Standard & Poor's yesterday, but the ratings agency retained its negative outlook over continued deficit concerns.

The Deutsche Bank executive arrested on Tuesday over alleged insider dealing advised the Government on financial stability at the height of the financial crisis.

UK Government borrowing was lower than expected in February at £12.4bn.

Sheriar Bradbury, MD of Bradbury Hamilton, assesses how advisers will be impacted as HMRC turns up the heat