by Agency Reporter | Oct 6, 2022 | Briefing
AGE UK IS CALLING FOR IMPROVEMENTS to the new Financial Services and Markets Bill to protect older customers, as research shows the importance to them of face-to-face banking. Age UK found that 75 per cent of people aged 65 and over who have a bank account want to...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 5, 2022 | Briefing
QUAKERS CONCERNED ABOUT THE DECLINE OF INTEGRITY in society are seeking partners to work on the issue and are launching a new national Quaker Truth Award. Following a deepening concern over ethics in public office, the Quaker Truth and Integrity Group (QTIG) was...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 5, 2022 | Briefing
EUROPEAN FINANCE MINISTERS updated the EU tax haven list on 4 October. The update includes the blacklisting of three additional countries (Anguilla, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos) because they have harmful tax regimes attracting profits without real economic activity....
by Agency Reporter | Oct 4, 2022 | Briefing
AROUND ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE WITH ASTHMA surveyed by lung charity Asthma + Lung UK say the soaring cost of living has caused life-threatening asthma attacks as they cut back on medicines, heating and food. The charity, which surveyed more than 3,600 people with lung...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 4, 2022 | Briefing
THE GOVERNMENT’S RETAINED EU LAW BILL gives ministers extraordinary powers to repeal and revise swathes of EU-derived employment, environmental and consumer protections, says the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Under legislation published in the...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 3, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS by the Jospeh Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has shown that if the Government chooses to renege on the pledge made in April by then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak to uprate benefits in line with inflation as usual, it will amount to the largest permanent deliberate...
