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George Osborne MP

Ed Balls: Labour will offer West Midlands more powers
Economic Development
Shadow Chancellor claims LEPs 'lack resources to do proper job'
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Osborne delivers Budget for pensioners, working people and manufacturers
Economic Development
More than 250,000 working people in the West Midlands will be taken out of income tax entirely under changes announced in George Osborne's Budget statement
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Budget 2014: Penny off price of beer toasted in West Midlands
Economic Development
The brewing industry said the move will protect 7,000 jobs, mainly of younger people working in pubs and bars
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Budget 2014: Cautious welcome for Help To Buy extension
Commercial Property
The equity loan scheme, designed to get the property market moving, is being extended to 2020, Chancellor George Osborne announced
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Budget 2014: Export help welcomed in the Midlands
Economic Development
George Osborne announced in his Budget that he was doubling the Government’s export finance to £3billion at the same time as cutting the interest rate
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Budget 2014: £7bn package to support business energy bills
Manufacturing
The Chancellor has unveiled a £7 billion package to help businesses with energy bills.
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Budget 2014: The cuts will continue
Economic Development
A cap on welfare bills including housing benefit and tax credits among plans to shore up Government finances
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Budget 2014: Borrowing plummets with surplus in view
Economic Development
OBR predicts borrowing will fall to £95 billion in 2014/15, then £75 billion £44 billion and £17 billion in subsequent years with a surplus of almost £5 billion in 2018/19
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Budget 2014: Economy grew by three times expectations in 2013
Economic Development
George Osborne has insisted the coalition will keep “putting Britain right” as he delivered his fifth Budget
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Budget 2014 is for 'makers and doers' - Osborne
Manufacturing
In his opening statement, the Chancellor said he would continue on the course the Government had started
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Budget 2014: Chancellor promises Budget for 'resilient economy'
Economic Development
The Chancellor is expected to unveil a further rise in the personal allowance above the £10,000 level promised by the coalition, and confirm heavily-trailed childcare subsidies among other measures to help those on lower and middle-incomes
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Considering inequality in Britain
Opinion
Accounts of poverty and injustice are included in publications going back millennia and repeated ever since; especially in the works of Charles Dickens.
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Ed Balls says Labour would improve living standards in Budget
Economic Development
George Osborne announces his fifth Budget this week, with prospects of growth for the first time.
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Jerroms partner calls for certainty and stability in Budget
Banking & Finance
Lucas Markou supports plan to reduce corporation tax to 20 per cent and would like to hear the Chancellor announce that this will happen by April 2014
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Chamber: Osborne must focus on skills and rates
Economic Development
Chancellor George Osborne finally has growth on the horizon as he prepares for his fifth Budget announcement next Wednesday.
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Budget 2014: Call for VAT on housework to be cut
Economic Development
Tens of thousands of jobs and £15 billion savings could result if George Osborne amends VAT laws, companies claim
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Squeezed middle is still picking up the bill
Opinion
This Coalition Government has taken tens of thousands of low income earners out of the tax system by adjusting the thresholds, so they have benefited.
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£15 million funding boost for Birmingham's city centre enterprise zone
Local Enterprise Partnership
The Enterprise Zone Site Development and Access Fund will provide loans and grants to developers who have been unable to secure finance for their projects
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Minimum wage rise will his small businesses
Opinion
Small companies are going to be hit with further overheads as the cost of the new pension laws come into effect, coupled with the ever increasing rates for fuel and power
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Exploring solutions to inequality in Britain
Opinion
Inequality is becoming an issue by which the main political parties wish to differentiate themselves in the run-up to the next general election.
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Leap in job adverts in West Midlands
Economic Development
The total jobs Barometer follows over 5.2 million jobseekers and 5,000 recruiters each month and, crucially, is three months ahead of the ONS unemployment statistics reporting
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Exploring solutions to inequality in Britain
Opinion
Though there is no doubt that for some in this country recent economic problems have left them unaffected if not better off
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More cuts to welfare budget needed, says Osborne on visit to Birmingham
Economic Development
Chancellor makes statement on the economy during visit to Coleshill headquarters of car parts firm Sertec
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Manufacturing group Sertec to create 400 jobs at Birmingham plants
Economic Development
Chancellor George Osborne calls Sertec a 'great manufacturing company'
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