GEORGE OSBORNE'S AUTUMN STATEMENT 2015 NEWS AND INFORMATION

'We are the builders': Osborne promises 400,000 new homes and vows to tackle Britain's 'crisis in home ownership'

11/01/16 09:50

29/11/15 11:59

He has repeatedly slashed domestic spending, but the Chancellor remains committed to funnelling 0.7 per cent of Britain's GDP into an array of dubious overseas aid projects.

27/11/15 09:00

Part-time students have been handed some good news in today's Autumn Statement with access to maintenance loans to help with living costs during their studies from 2017/18.

26/11/15 13:11

George Osborne hit the buy-to-let dream with a big stamp duty hike yesterday, but landlords still have a tax trick they can pull to claim it back.

26/11/15 10:42

Chancellor George Osborne landed buy-to-let and second homes a huge shock by announcing a stamp duty surcharge on property purchases from April.

26/11/15 08:17

HMP Holloway in north London, which has been home to some of Britain's most infamous killers, will be sold off as part of a £1.3billion government overhaul of the UK prison service

26/11/15 06:57

Draconian rises signalled by the Chancellor will see the average bill for a Band D household rise up to £320 by 2020/21. George Osborne urged town halls to impose increase to fund social care shortfalls.

26/11/15 01:44

The climbdown means George Osborne (pictured) will breach his self-imposed welfare cap for the next three years, meaning a minister must explain and apologise to Parliament.

26/11/15 01:23

George Osborne showed himself a master of his political trade in yesterday's Autumn Statement - but seems to have abandoned his early enthusiasm for slimming down the size of the state.

25/11/15 20:42

The Autumn Statement contained some good news for entrepreneurs as George Osborne pledged to carry on exempting micro companies from paying business rates.

25/11/15 20:28

To raise £18billion in spending cuts over the five years, George Osborne slashed departments by up to 37 per cent but the NHS, defence and international development are the big winners.

25/11/15 20:06

The Prime Minister took a few seconds out from the 65-minute brief to subtly unravel the treat and pop it into his mouth like a mischievous schoolboy.

25/11/15 20:00

Public funding - known as Short Money - given to opposition parties to prepare to become an alternative government is to be slashed by 19 per cent, in line with Whitehall departments.

25/11/15 19:19

The NHS, defence, foreign aid and housing are set to be the big winners, but the police, transport, justice and the environment will bear the brunt, with families braced for big hikes in council tax bills.

25/11/15 18:50

George Osborne says household energy bills will fall by an average of £30 by 2017 as a result of reducing green levies, as outlined in his Autumn Statement this afternoon.

25/11/15 18:29

We bring you the latest the analysis, reaction and charts from the experts and our own journalists from throughout the day.

25/11/15 16:54

UK Sport has been handed a shock 29 per cent increase in funding, handing a boost to British athletes preparing for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo four years later.

25/11/15 16:53

Anyone with a household income of less than £80,000 in England will soon be able to buy a home through shared ownership, which has long been restricted to key workers.

25/11/15 16:35

Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed the basic state pension will rise by £3.35 to £119.30 a week from April, while the starting rate for the new single-tier version will be £155.65.

25/11/15 16:00

Changes sparked a backlash as they were forecast by the Insitute of Fiscal Studies to take £1,000 a year off 3 million families. They have now been halted altogether.

25/11/15 13:27

Today George Osborne will reveal details of his Autumn Statement. We round-up what to expect, including his tax credit headache and the predicted pension changes.

24/11/15 17:57

Alzheimer's campaigners have welcomed Government plans for a new £150 million dementia research institute. The new Institute - expected to be announced in We...

24/11/15 17:57

Border systems will be upgraded to better target weapons being smuggled into the country while a joint operation centre will see police, intelligence agencies and the military to work more closely.

24/11/15 13:29

Chancellor George Osborne will use tomorrow’s spending review to announce that the Health Service will receive an extra £6billion straight away – rising to £10billion a year by 2020.

24/11/15 13:22

The Chancellor has pledged to eliminate the record deficit racked up by Labour during the financial crisis and return the country to the black by the end of the decade.

24/11/15 13:21

The Chancellor is due to deliver his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, and MPs have called for it to include new incentives to encourage drivers to do away with high polluting diesels.

24/11/15 13:20

Three major changes to pension saving are on the horizon, which will hit those helping to build a healthy fund for retirement. Now, the Chancellor faces calls to reverse a planned tax grab

24/11/15 13:19

IPSE, a body that represents the self-employed, believes the Chancellor could limit contracts to just a month for freelancers, after which they would be forced on to the client’s payroll.

24/11/15 13:18

Profits made from the sale of assets such as property or shares, which are called capital gains, rose to £32.1billion last year, up from £23.5billion in 2012-13, marking their highest level on record.

06/12/14 22:02

Geoff Parkes, teaching fellow at Aston Business School in Birmingham, said: ‘Thus far, the scheme has accounted for less than two per cent of all lending to small firms.’

06/12/14 09:26

As analysts digested the detail of the Chancellor’s ‘mini-Budget’ the ramifications of reforms to stamp duty, business rates and the North Sea tax regime became clearer…

05/12/14 21:59

The big omissions from a Budget or an Autumn Statement are always revealing. It used to be help for savers. This week the missing element was the squeezed middle. Not households, but firms.

05/12/14 15:47

Whether you are earning the minimum wage or raking in millions, the amount of tax that disappears from your earnings is likely to change to some extent.

05/12/14 12:38

Critics argue these initiatives would not be necessary if the banks were doing their job instead of persisting in their reluctance to lend to small companies.

05/12/14 09:46

The stinging criticism from former Home Office minister Jeremy Browne came after the deputy leader shunned Wednesday’s Autumn Statement.

04/12/14 11:01

A poor session for the FTSE 100 Index masked gains for housebuilders and airlines amid beneficial tax measures from George Osborne today.

04/12/14 09:35

Autumn Statement day is always a big one in the Commons year but yesterday the fervour was particularly felt as next May’s electoral reckoning looms, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

03/12/14 19:57

The Deputy Prime Minister spurned the chance to hear the Chancellor's statement in person and instead headed to Cornwall to announce funding for coastal defences.

03/12/14 18:18

The Chancellor abolished air passenger duty on all flights for children under the age of 12. It will also reduce the cost of a holiday to Spain for a family of four by £26.

03/12/14 17:10

Income tax free personal allowance to rise to £10,600 rather than the planned £10,500 next year. Higher rate income tax threshold to rise to £42,385 next year.

03/12/14 16:55

Annuities which come with death benefits can be passed to loved ones tax-free if you die aged under 75, the Chancellor announced in the Autumn statement.

03/12/14 14:08

Live analysis, reaction, charts and data and what the experts and you the readers are saying in reader comments and on social media .

03/12/14 09:51

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has very little room for manouevre in today's Autumn Statement.

03/12/14 07:49

George Osborne's comments while delivering the 2013 Budget revived his fortunes. But it was only a confidence trick. Now, with an election just around the corner, the Chancellor is in a bind.

03/12/14 07:42

The annual deficit has fallen from the record £153bn racked up by Labour in 2009-10 to £97.5bn last year, but progress has now all but stalled as tax receipts disappoint.

03/12/14 01:01

The purchasing managers’ index of activity in the UK construction sector dipped from 61.4 in October to 59.4 in November, which is still well above the 50 mark that divides growth and decline.

03/12/14 00:30

Households up and down the country are hoping Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will come up with a couple of ‘surprise’ announcements.

01/12/14 10:10

The Chancellor insists there will be no political tax breaks because Britain must ‘stay the course to prosperity’.

28/11/14 21:59

Oil price decline provides a key backcloth to the budget. It will keep downward pressure on inflation, and offers the prospect that the decline in real earnings could start to be reversed.

24/11/14 09:46

Business leaders want the Government to build a tunnel under Stonehenge to relieve congestion to south west England.

09/11/14 12:04

Call for a freelancer limited company structure to be set up within the tax system and for training for a new career to be tax deductable.

09/12/13 11:31

The age at which people can claim their state pension will rise to 68 in the mid-2030s, 69 in the late-2040s and future rises will be linked to life expectancy.

09/12/13 11:30

With this year's statement imminent, pension experts are pleading for a grace period for an industry that has undergone wide-ranging regulatory changes in recent years.

09/12/13 11:30

Chancellor George Osborne has announced that pensioners will get the chance to boost their incomes in a six month window between October 2015 and April 2016.

06/12/13 15:08

In a blow for the Chancellor who used the Autumn Statement to unveil a raft of populist giveaways, 60 per cent thought it was good for ‘rich people’.

06/12/13 09:13

Bad news on retirement ages for young workers and a tax clampdown on rental properties. We summarise the key points of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

06/12/13 08:06

Many employers are hiring staff on contracts where they are classed as self employed, even if they are full-time employees.

06/12/13 08:06

George Osborne revealed that the 0.5 per cent stamp duty savers have to pay for buying shares in UK-based exchange-traded funds will be abolished from next April.

06/12/13 02:33

'Hello. I think Lucinda is making an Autumn Statement.'

06/12/13 02:16

The Chancellor unveiled a raft of upbeat data pointing to the recovery gaining momentum, with record numbers in work, borrowing falling and house prices forecast to soar by 5.2 per cent next year.

06/12/13 02:12

Red-faced and shouting, the Shadow Chancellor faced mockery as he refused to acknowledge rising growth and continued to insist that he was right to oppose austerity all along.

05/12/13 22:31

George Osborne described the crackdown as the 'largest package of measures to tackle tax avoidance, tax evasion, fraud and error so far this parliament'.

05/12/13 22:30

George Osborne did not address problems such as low levels of investment, lack of access to finance, and high energy costs.

05/12/13 18:16

NS&I has been given a higher financing target for the financial year Chancellor George Osborne revealed in the Autumn Statement today.

05/12/13 18:09

The FTSE 100 Index fell for the fifth session in row, closing down another 11.6 points to 6498.3, with little cheer offered from Chancellor George Osborne's autumn statement.

05/12/13 18:08

Experts had claimed that the lifetime limit could be capped at £100,000 – a figure that seasoned savers may have already reached - but that has not transpired.

05/12/13 17:26

In today’s Autumn Statement, the Government said it would conduct a review to be completed by the end of 2014 to ensure that Britain can help develop and test driverless cars.

05/12/13 15:46

Hard-pressed motorists have been told that a planned 2p a litre fuel duty rise will not happen next September in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement today.

05/12/13 15:26

The rate paid by ETF providers is currently 0.5 per cent but this will be ditched in April 2014, Chancellor George Osborne revealed in his Autumn Statement today.

05/12/13 15:11

Osborne has given the first cheerful update in his time as Chancellor, as he raised growth forecasts and cut borrowing predictions today. We round up City reaction.

05/12/13 12:22

As George Osborne speaks and throughout the day This is Money will be live blogging analysis, reaction, charts and data and what people are saying on social media.

05/12/13 10:46

Anyone currently in their 40s or younger would be affected by the move, which will see the state pension age rise as the average person lives longer.

04/12/13 18:19

The Chancellor told the Cabinet they must reduce spending every year for the next three years, as he prepared to set out a highly-political statement to the Commons.

04/12/13 14:08

David Cameron stressed that he was a 'low-tax Tory' but said that more needed to be done to get Britain's finances back in shape.

04/12/13 06:43

To reclaim the high ground, Mail City Editor Alex Brummer suggests the speech Osborne needs to make from his dispatch box.

03/12/13 08:23

Treasury sources said the Chancellor will have to ‘make a decision’ on what to do about business rate relief as it is due to expire next year.

07/10/13 22:24

George Osborne must ‘go all out in the name of growth’ in the Autumn Statement to ensure the recovery does not fizzle out, business leaders claim today.

05/09/13 10:49

Knowing exactly what has unlocked Britain’s recovery is hard to determine. But the elements have been in place for some time.

21/03/13 00:20

Where was the BBC’s Daily Politics presenter, Andrew Neil, on Budget Day? Apparently the Budget is viewed as a state occasion by the BBC. And thus the exclusive preserve of Edwards.

09/12/12 00:51

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said the Shadow Chancellor’s response to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement had damaged Mr Balls’s leadership prospects – and made Mr Miliband’s position secure.

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