8:04pm

Coalition seeks £10bn election year cuts

Ministers to work on tough austerity plans for 2015-16

7:23pm

Balls blames reply on ‘dodgy’ figures

Shadow chancellor attacks ‘sleight of hand’ over borrowing

2:47pm

Officials reinstated in West Coast fiasco

Immediate changes announced at Department for Transport

9:27am

Virgin keeps West Coast line for two years

Government report on tendering fiasco to be released on Thursday

11:59pm

Improving lower-end skills benefits regions

Fostering institutions that strengthen a region’s voice are crucial

11:25pm

Defence gap of £2bn opens up

Warning of severe consequences for the armed forces

10:54pm

Budget adds to public sector workers’ pain

Civil service is shedding experience, shrinking and reforming itself

8:49pm

Chancellor draws cheers from Tory benches

Concedes deficit hopes too optimistic but still discomfits Labour

8:35pm

£58bn funding plan delights regions

Fears that ’radical step’ could be ‘scuppered by Whitehall’

8:29pm

Tax changes won’t reverse fiscal drag

Higher-rate taxpayers can expect only temporary relief

8:15pm

Forecast 4G sale included in accounts

£3.5bn factored in, although spectrum auction has not even started

From UK BUSINESS 7:46pm

Trade deficit prompts call for EM focus

Data fuel fears UK net trade will be negative in fourth quarter

Chris Giles Chris Giles from GLOBAL ECONOMY 7:45pm

Tax warning over ‘inconceivable’ cuts

Next government likely to put up levies, says think-tank

From ASIA-PACIFIC 4:53pm

Tata raps India for driving off investment

Group plans to look to other emerging economies for expansion

From UK BUSINESS 1:53pm

Starbucks to pay £10m UK corporate tax

US coffee chain’s move comes amid criticism of tax arrangements

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 11:15am

Osborne fights off attacks over 4G

Chancellor rejects claims 4G sale artificially eased deficit

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 10:14am

Rating threat after Autumn Statement

Chancellor admits targets will be missed

From UK BUSINESS 12:00am

Cameron lauds new Tech City investments

University College London invests in ‘Silicon Roundabout’

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 11:33pm

Fiscal watchdog slashes UK forecasts

Dismal economic performance set to last five years

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 8:59pm

Why did Osborne miss his target?

Q&A: Chancellor judges himself by different standard to predecessors

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