Articles, tagged with "labour government", page 1
22nd July 2011
The Junior ISA will likely be launched in November 2011 and has in some ways been designed as a replacement for the Child Trust Fund, which was discontinued after the current government came to power.
What was the Child Trust Fund?
The Child Trust ...
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Author:
amnorge
28th March 2011
During the austerity measures laid out by the coalition government at the beginning of the year, we saw many public services and organisations set up by the previous Labour government reduced or cut as a means to reduce the overall spending. But one of th...
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Author:
Andrew Joyce
28th March 2011
David Cameron’s Big Society has reverberated throughout the UK way before the coalition government was formed. Its wide-reaching philosophy ensures that it can be applied to every walk of life and the healthcare sector is no exception.
Community involv...
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Author:
Sally Bakhuizen
11th March 2011
Tens of thousands of migrant employees will fill UK jobs depite an annual cap being introduced.
A yearly cap will come into force in April 2011.
However the cap will not be applied to any foreign employee who is already in Gt Britain.
This will a...
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UK Tax Refunds
07th March 2011
Belper is a town eight miles to the north of Derby, on the A6 road, on the river Derwent in the Amber Valley of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. There are a number of notable residents associated with the town, from the fields of movies, TV, n...
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Author:
David Fisher
04th March 2011
The UK Prime Minister David Cameron has accused former Labour government ministers of not revealing the complete truth relating to the early release of the Lockerbie bomber after seeing the report produced that stated that Labour had done "all it could" t...
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UK Tax Refunds
01st March 2011
It has recently been discovered that the previous Labour government allowed some 155K illegal immigrants to be able to qualify not only for sickness benfits but also maternity pay.
The the cost to the UK tax payer has been estimated to run into "tens ...
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UK Tax Refunds
25th February 2011
I ask my self would I have invaded Iraq if I had been the PM at the time?
Well, of course, I was not the PM but first I would have explored all possible means of finding an effective solution with out a war. With diplomacy, technology and intelligence ...
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UK Tax Refunds
23rd February 2011
April 6th 2011 is the deadline to complete property transactions for property over £1m, to beat the new Stamp Duty levy of 5%. The proposed increase was brought in under the previous Labour Government to help fund the exemption of the first tier of the ta...
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Author:
Rubel Zaman
23rd February 2011
When giving evidence before the Chilcot inquiry Admiral Lord Boyce has suggested that Labour government ministers were not at all happy with the idea of regime change in Iraq and as such they were unable to provide the required funding for the conflict.
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UK Tax Refunds
22nd February 2011
Labour has very many broken promises to explain for during its period in office.
Their record over the previous thirteen years has various failings underneath the surface of their publicity machine.
Our previous Prime Minister Brown went to Portuga...
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UK Tax Refunds
08th February 2011
Miliband has called the decision by the Liberal Democrat's to form a coalition with the Conservative party as a "tragic mistake" and suggests that they should join forces with the Labour party on matters of common interest.
I really am very puzzled wha...
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UK Tax Refunds
17th January 2011
With the potential costs of a university education spiralling, house prices still being relatively high and the cost of weddings increasing, it has never been more important to begin a programme of savings for children and grandchildren.
Added to this...
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Author:
Ray Prince
05th January 2011
The new rate of VAT is due to kick in on the 4th of January 2011, the rate will increase from 17.5% to 20%. During the peak of the recession the Labour government had reduced the VAT from 17.5% to 15% to help retailers sell consumer consumables during har...
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Author:
bensonbrown
22nd December 2010
There has been a great effort over the last decade to embed the teaching of MFL (modern foreign languages) in Primary schools. Seen by the Labour government of 1997-2010 as an essential element of the curriculum, learning a language at an early age can ha...
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Author:
Hannah McCarthey