Business owner outside a small café.

To mark Small Business Saturday, the business secretary has announced that small businesses across the UK will be able to get quicker and easier he

Money and Saltire.

The new Scottish Budget announces spending commitments that comprise supporting businesses and business growth, as well as measures to attract private investment, allowing Scotland to be one of the world’s most attractive places for entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Finance Secretary Shona Robison has outlined the urgent action being taken to balance the Scottish Budget in the face of “enormous and growing pressure on the public finances”.  

In her first speech as Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has laid out plans to improve the UK's economy.

The IFS said the UK's main political parties must be clearer in their pledges to tax and spending.

More than 292,000 baby boxes have been delivered to expectant parents in Scotland to support parents during the cost-of-living crisis.

Report suggests councils should have revenue support for their neighbourhood service provision combined with money currently allocated through capital pots into a single five-year 'placemaking budget'

Announced in December, Levelling up Secretary Michael Gove has now signed a deal which has allocated £1.4 billion of funding over the next 30 years for the devolved North East

Solace survey predicts the impact of Autumn statement on residents

Patrick Melia: "Trying to respond to these pressures through regressive council tax or use of reserves is simply not sustainable, as this survey shows."

Report highlights lack of foreign investment in rural areas

Research commissioned by the County Councils Network (CCN) showed that the per-capita ratio of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in England’

Grant allocations for council tax rebate total £28m

Department of Levelling up, Housing & Communities outlines its initial new burdens down-payment

Policy response to cost of living crisis 'inadequate and poorly targeted' says NEF

Research suggests four steps towards a Living Income

Steve Rotheram has unveiled a multi-billion pound plan to supercharge the Liverpool City Region’s innovation powerhouse credentials.

The Trussell Trust network provided more than 2.1 million parcels to people facing financial hardship across the country in the space of a year.

MPs have said that the government was ‘complacent in preventing fraud’ in the 100 per cent taxpayer-guaranteed Bounceback Loan Scheme.

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