Posts Tagged ‘government budget’
Schools, Roads and Health Cash to Go On New Homes
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 15:43 No CommentsGordon Brown has raided the health, education and transport budgets to fund 30000 extra “social” homes in a hastily assembled relaunch heavily influenced by Lord Mandelson.
There was immediate confusion in Whitehall last night as departments appeared not to be aware that they were supposed to be funding the £1.5 billion centrepiece of the Governement’s pre-election [...]
Small Businesses Call for Rates Relief
Monday, March 23, 2009 14:42 No CommentsHundreds of small business owners have launched a campaign at the Federation of Small Businesses’s annual conference in Newport yesterday. They have writen to Chancellor Alistair Darling, calling for the introduction of automatic business rate relief in next month’s Budget.
According to an estimation by the FSB, more than 50% small businesses miss out on reclaiming [...]



