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Work and Pensions Committee says DWP has responded to queries with 'airy, irrelevant and, it appears, plainly inaccurate assertions'.

Government plans to increase the share of business rates English councils retain risk growing divergences between the funding available to different councils, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Twenty years after the birth of their first child, a woman’s hourly wage will on average be a third lower than the hourly wage of a man with a similar level of education.

The Scottish Government plans to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol in May 2018. Minimum unit pricing is likely to increase profits for the alcohol industry, but reform of alcohol duties is likely to raise tax revenue.