Regulation

The government has extended the £500 tax relief for employer funded return to work treatments to include all those arranged by employer occupational health services.

The Government has announced the introduction of a cap on total welfare spending.

The Court of Appeal has found the process deciding those eligible for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) disadvantages people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism.

Advisers have welcomed the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) first crack-down on an advisory firm which had permissions to advise but no actual qualified advisers, although they say the regulator should have acted sooner.

MPs have called for an urgent independent review into the Money Advice Service (MAS) after a damning report criticised its role and reach, and questioned the salaries it pays its top executives.

Biba executive director criticises "reams and reams" of information that "overwhelms" customers.

Treasury Select Committee (TSC) chairman Andrew Tyrie has called on the industry to help parliament hold the financial services regulator to account to avoid "excessive regulation" that could "create the stability of the graveyard".

Two-fifths of financial advisers have revealed they still feel they have ‘no support' from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) when selling protection products.

Scotland would set up its own financial conduct regulator if it becomes independent from the UK, according to the Scottish government's white paper on independence.

Evidence of Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS') treatment of small businesses has been passed to financial regulators by business secretary Vince Cable, according to reports.