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Catch the latest Financial News EventsKeir Starmer shakes up No 10 operation with mini-reshuffle
Exclusive: Darren Jones appointed to new senior role in charge of day-to-day delivery of PM’s prioritiesDarren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has been moved to a new senior role in Downing Street as Keir Starmer attempts to get a grip on delivery ahead of...
Ministers urged to put brakes on offices in England being turned into homes
Housing providers and charities want development rights abolished amid concern over lack of affordable homesDozens of organisations have signed an open letter calling on the government to scrap office-to-residential conversions in England, which analysis has found led...
GPS pay-as-you-go rail tickets to be trialled in England for first time
East Midlands passengers to check in for travel on their phones and will be automatically charged the best fares at the end of dayA new pay-as-you-go rail ticketing system that tracks passengers’ locations as they travel is to be trialled in England for the first...
English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families
Exclusive: Data gathered by Generation Rent shows 37 councils spent £31m in 2024-25 in one-off payments to individual landlordsCouncils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to persuade them to...