The Treasury dismisses reports that David Cameron is pushing George Osborne to do more to promote economic growth as "rubbish".

Stephen Timms MP, Labour's Financial Secretary to the Treasury, responding to George Osborne's incorrect claims about how business loan guarantee schemes work during Treasury Questions today, said: "George Osborne's empty promises will do nothing to help people or business today. "He has shown he doesn't understand how business guarantee schemes work when he says it 'did n...

Labour's Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms MP, responding to George Osborne's incorrect claims about how business loan guarantee schemes work during Treasury Questions today, said: "George Osborne's empty promises will do nothing to help people or business today. "He has shown he doesn't understand how business guarantee schemes work when he says it 'did n...

George Osborne is going to “reform the Treasury”, it is reported. Oh dear, we’ve been here before haven’t we? Harold Wilson gave it a good go, innumerable others have tried and failed too and Gordon Brown “reformed” the Treasury so much that it became a government within a government. That was a consequence of Brown’s determination that every piece of policy should be micro-managed by his departme...

Treasury sources have denied that an MP swore at George Osborne, the chancellor, over the EU referendum.

When George Osborne and Vince Cable start to rebuild the economy, they will have the help of some high-powered advisers and City heavyweights.

Responding to George Osborne's BBC interview, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne MP told Labour Matters: What is clear from tonight's interview is that George Osborne will say anything to distract attention from the fact that he would cut SureStart and cut schools spending. It is utterly misleading for Osborne to claim that the Prime Minister prevented the Tories ge...

Polling consultancy ComRes has been tracking business leaders’ perceptions of party leaders and their Treasury spokesmen since October 2007. Recent figures for business leaders’ confidence in the abilities of Darling, Osborne and Cable make for an interesting comparison: In September, confidence in Alistair Darling was 11%, George Osborne 40% and Vince Cable was 31%. In October, it was...

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury responding to George Osborne's speech today said: "Today George Osborne made credibility the test and then failed it. The only thing he succeeded in doing was to talk Britain down. "In a press conference riddled with mistakes, he promised clarity but what we got was more confusion. He was asked five times what his cuts would be thi...

George Osborne is planning to cut staff numbers at the Treasury by about one-quarter and scale back his department's role as he attempts to lead by example in the search for spending cuts across Whitehall