The National Audit Office has today published its report on the Treasury’s sixth set of Whole of Government Accounts (WGA). The 2014-15 version of the WGA is the most complete picture of the public finances that is available and the quality of the document and its accuracy is continuing to improve. The accounts now include Network Rail and the Pension Protection Fund, and so show a broader range of the public sectors activities than they have ever before.

The Association of British Insurers has today set out its intention to take forward the next phase to deliver the Pensions Dashboard, including potentially creating a prototype. 

Building societies performed strongly in both the mortgage and savings market in the first quarter of the year despite intensive competition from the big 5 banks and smaller challengers, says the Building Societies Association.

HMRC’s digital strategy aims to improve the efficiency and quality of its customer services by moving more personal taxpayers online thereby reducing demand for more costly to handle telephone and postal contact. HMRC, through substantial staff reductions, decreased the cost of its personal tax operations between 2010-11 and 2014-15 by £257 million. Today’s National Audit Office report finds that while HMRC maintained or improved customer service up to 2013-14 it then misjudged the cumulative impact of its complex transition and released too many customer service staff before completing service changes.

An extensive report published today by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) attempts to understand why productivity in the construction sector has stalled, and how this affects productivity in the wider economy.

The Director of Manufacturing at Cranfield University writes ahead of the National Manufacturing Debate on 25th May discussing: "How can UK Manufacturing Growth match the best of the G7?"

Opening the Building Societies Association (BSA) Annual Conference at The Sage, Gateshead today, Robin Fieth, BSA Chief Executive will say to delegates that a lack of trust still pervades modern society, whether in banking, taxation, international relations or domestic politics.  But research shows that the building society movement stands out as one of the most trusted part of the financial services sector.

Seven months after the BSA published its first interim report on the issues being faced by borrowers in their forties and fifties onwards, well over half of the UK’s building societies will now lend to borrowers up to or over the age of 80.

Trade union GMB slams the Government for creating an economy ‘built on the insecurity of the workforce.’

Britain’s building societies are well placed to help stem the nation's personal debt crisis at a grassroots level with better financial education for young people, according to a new report by the charity, MyBnk.  

EU nationals, who may have lived in Britain for a few days or a few decades, are unable to vote in the 23 June referendum.

The Government has published a White Paper which includes proposals on the future of Innovate UK.

Research conducted by the charity Independent Age shows vast inequalities among pensioners, with 950,000 over-75s living below the poverty line. 

As the much anticipated Anti-Corruption Summit kicks off, Melanie Mylvaganam, Policy Analyst at the Bar Council, explains how the Bar guards against money laundering and terrorism financing in the UK.

Ed Miliband's former adviser, Lord Wood of Anfield, writes that with just six weeks to go until the European Referendum, debate should be 'based on differences of philosophy, purpose and policies' not knocking lumps out of political opponents.

Ahead of his debate today, Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop explains to PoliticsHome why it’s in the industry’s interest to slow down the process of selling Tata Steel.

Since the government began enforcing the National Minimum Wage in April 1999, HM Revenue & Customs has identified £68 million in arrears for over 313,000 workers, according to today’s report from the National Audit Office. The number of workers identified as being owed arrears in 2015-16 was 58,000 compared to 26,000 in 2014-15.

The report ‘Britain at Work 2016’ by reputation management consultancy Lansons and insight agency Opinium reveals that around a quarter of UK employees, equivalent to 6 million people, have taken time off work in the last 12 months due to stress brought about as a consequence of doing their job.

The global internet community is set to introduce a new and more sophisticated level of internet security and Bacs is again warning businesses to act now to avoid losing access to vital payment services when internet security changes from 13 June 2016.

- ƒTotal consumer spending increases by +2.5% year-on-year in April

- ƒƒE-commerce growth rate of +8.4% year-on-year but face-to-face expenditure is broadly flat (+0.2% year-on-year)

- ƒƒClothing and footwear sees biggest fall in year-on-year spending since September 2014

A new £1.2 million fund has been set up to help small and innovative UK firms to work with international businesses, seek out new global markets and supply chains, innovation agency Innovate UK announced today.

New research has found that Brexit could cause a pay cut across the country – and especially in London.

The Trade Union Bill has received parliamentary approval (Royal Assent) and becomes the Trade Union Act 2016.

The Enterprise Bill has now received parliamentary approval (Royal Assent) and becomes the Enterprise Act.