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Pensions dashboard is given stay of execution
CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond confounded expectations yesterday by failing to make any mention at all of pensions during his Budget speech. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17187672.pensions-dashboard-is-given-stay-of-execution/
Chancellor unveils raft of measures designed to tackle problem debt
WHEN economic secretary to the Treasury John Glen stopped off at a Glasgow credit union as part of a summer fact-finding tour of...
Income tax difference between Scotland and England set to grow
THE income tax differential between Scotland and England is set to grow much wider much faster as Philip Hammond announced that the age...
Right deal will be double dividend
BREXIT will see the UK “harvest a double deal dividend” if it gets the right agreement, the UK Chancellor Philip Hammond declared in...
Space mining entrepreneur sees little in Budget to get young people onto the property ladder
YOUNG space mining entrepreneur Mitch Hunter-Scullion saw nothing in the Budget to take himself or other young people out of renting and into...
Scotland ‘robbed’ of £2bn as a result of Tory spending policies, SNP claim
SCOTLAND has been “robbed” of a total of almost £2 billion as a result of Conservative spending policies in Westminster, the SNP has...
Philip Hammond accused of applying ‘sticking plaster’ to broken welfare reforms
PHILIP Hammond has been accused of applying a “sticking plaster” to a broken system after announcing he will pump an extra £1 billion...
Budget: Hammond turns to toilet humour as Brexit Britain prepares to go down the pan
IT’S always nice when you find that fiver in the back of your jeans, or those pound coins behind the sofa, along with...
Living wage increase is just not enough say Scots poverty campaigners
AN above inflation rise in the national living wage announced in the Budget is not enough to tackle work poverty, Scots poverty campaigners...
Philip Hammond accused of ‘short-changing’ Tay investment project
PHILIP Hammond has been accused of “short-changing” a major new investment project in Scotland. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17187209.philip-hammond-accused-of-short-changing-tay-investment-project/
