All posts tagged "Treasury"

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  Johnson forges ahead with civil service shake-up

  UK prime minister Boris Johnson is moving policy advisers out of Downing Street and into the Cabinet Office as part of wider plans to ensure that No 10, the Treasury

  • Posted August 14, 2020
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  Fitting COVID-19 into the infrastructure puzzle

  After years of stop-start work on a national infrastructure plan, the Treasury made capital investment a key element of the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda. Then COVID-19 struck, raising big questions

  • Posted July 26, 2020
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  Rebalancing the UK: ‘Levelling Up’ in the era of COVID-19

  With Boris Johnson’s electoral fortunes resting on ‘Levelling Up’ the North and Midlands, the agenda still has legs. At a GGF webinar, panellists including a former HMT special adviser, DEXEU

  • Posted July 9, 2020
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  EU promises new digital taxes after US pulls out of talks

  An abrupt US decision to abandon international negotiations aimed at taxing tech giants has sparked fears of a trade war, with the European Commission and member states vowing to act

  • Posted June 22, 2020
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  Top Australian former officials blast country’s ‘failure’ on climate change

  Former Australian civil service leaders have condemned successive governments’ failure to tackle climate change, with former Australian Public Service chief Martin Parkinson calling their efforts “incoherent” and ex-Treasury secretary Ken

  • Posted May 20, 2020
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  UK financial authorities launch ‘grid’ to map out regulatory pipeline

  UK financial regulators have launched a ‘grid’ to outline details of upcoming regulatory initiatives and highlight timetabling changes resulting from the coronavirus crisis. The Regulatory Initiatives Grid has been launched

  • Posted May 14, 2020
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  UK Post Office loosens cash access rules to help those self-isolating

  The UK’s Post Office has this week announced new initiatives to help self-isolating individuals get quicker and easier access to cash during the coronavirus pandemic. The Post Office (PO), a

  • Posted April 16, 2020
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  UK Budget pledges funds for corona, infrastructure – and laws on cash access

  The UK government has allocated billions to coronavirus-related spending and infrastructure projects, in a bid to keep the economy moving as growth projections for 2020 fall to 1.1%. Giving his

  • Posted March 14, 2020
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  NZ Treasury errors led to budget leak, inquiry finds

  A series of failures at New Zealand’s Treasury – including a shortfall in governance, oversight and risk management processes – led to sensitive budget material being accessible on its website,

  • Posted March 2, 2020
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  Help to Save and the power of cross-departmental working

  When NS&I Government Payment Services (NS&I GPS) began working on devising and delivering Help to Save, a new savings scheme designed for working people on low incomes, it faced a

  • Posted January 27, 2020
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