Byline: James Chapman Political EditorPRESSURE is mounting on George Osborne to raise the 40p tax threshold - after it was claimed he said people do not mind paying the higher rate because it makes them feel like a 'success'.The row over the millions of workers being dragged into paying ...
This was introduced as a lower-rate grant by the Scottish Government in 2010, and then also scaled back in 2013. In 2015, the Scottish Government added £125 back on to some grants, costing it around £5m, and in 2016 it reversed most of the cut to the threshold for maximum grant,...
This is a relevant question since, of course, under the bursary system, universities themselves can decide on the threshold for bursary receipt—effectively they decide who is "poor". Notions of efficiency are rather less straightforward and less widely discussed in the UK aid literature, which ...
"We are in a system where there will be a continuing and very important role for the Government, through providing financial support and through the new regulatory regime that emerges as we think through the proposals from Lord Browne, and where there is a very clear cap-a threshold of £...