George Osborne

Parents would be able to pass a main property worth up to £1m to their children without paying any inheritance tax (IHT), under Tory plans in Treasury papers leaked ahead of Wednesday's budget.

Chancellor George Osborne will further relax pension rules in his Budget on Wednesday to allow the sale of annuity contracts.

More than half a million people will be able to take advantage of the government's changing regulation around pensions from 6 April, according to latest official estimates.

Lloyds Banking Group is to start paying dividends again for the first time in six years, set to be 0.75p per share for 2014.

The government has sold a further £500m of Lloyds Banking Group shares through a trading plan launched in December, taking the total amount of money recovered for the taxpayer from the bank to just under £8bn.

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UK GDP is confirmed to have risen 0.7% in Q3 - but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revised down a string of recent annualised growth figures.

The government has asked the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to be more transparent in its supervision and enforcement actions, in a review released yesterday.

The UK government is to sell another tranche of shares in Lloyds Banking Group as it moves to return the bank to private ownership.