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Help to Buy: helping 88,000 buy a new home
Help to Buy, the government’s flagship housing scheme, has helped 88,420 people buy a new home since it was created.
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Tax-free savings boost for 1.5 million savers
From 6 April, one million savers with an annual income under £15,600 will be able to get their savings interest paid completely tax-free.
Government completes banking reforms
Biggest reforms to the UK banking sector in a generation come into force.
Rural fuel price cut gets green light
Residents across 17 of the UK’s most rural areas with the highest fuel prices to benefit from a 5 pence per litre fuel price cut.
Latest
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Andrea Leadsom launches South Coast Financial Centre of Excellence initiative
- published 5 March 2015
- Speech
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South Coast's financial services industry hailed by City Minister
- published 5 March 2015
- News story
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Rural fuel price cut gets green light
- published 5 March 2015
- News story
What we do
HM Treasury is the government’s economic and finance ministry, maintaining control over public spending, setting the direction of the UK’s economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth.
HMT is a ministerial department, supported by 9 agencies and public bodies.
Our policies
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Reducing tax evasion and avoidance
HMRC works to reduce tax evasion and avoidance, including preventing evasion and avoidance, giving people opportunities to declare what they owe, and prosecuting more people who break the law.
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Making companies more accountable to shareholders and the public
Making companies more accountable will make them more attractive to investors and make the public want to buy their products and services.
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Growing the social investment market
How government is making it easier for social ventures to grow by increasing the amount of available funding sources.
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Our announcements
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Andrea Leadsom launches South Coast Financial Centre of Excellence initiative
- 5 March 2015
- Speech
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South Coast's financial services industry hailed by City Minister
- 5 March 2015
- News story
Our consultations
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Regulating individual conduct in banking: UK branches of foreign banks
- 3 March 2015
- Consultation outcome
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Banking reform: draft pensions regulations
- 17 February 2015
- Consultation outcome
Our publications
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DAO 02/14: early termination of PPP and PFI contracts
- 4 March 2015
- Guidance
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Financial sanctions: consolidated list of targets
- 3 March 2015
- Policy paper
Our statistics
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Standards and policies for HM Treasury statistics
- 5 March 2015
- Statistics
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Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme quarterly statistics: October 2013 to December 2014
- 5 March 2015
- Statistics
Our ministers
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Priti Patel MP
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Paid as a Parliamentary Secretary
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Andrea Leadsom MP
Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) Paid as a Parliamentary Secretary
Our management
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Sir Nicholas Macpherson
Permanent Secretary
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Sharon White
Second Permanent Secretary
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John Kingman
Second Permanent Secretary
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Mark Bowman
Director General, International and EU
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Dave Ramsden
Director General, Chief Economic Adviser
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Charles Roxburgh
Director General, Financial Services
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Indra Morris
Director General, Tax and Welfare
Contact HMT
HM Treasury
The Correspondence and Enquiry Unit
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
Email public.enquiries@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk
General enquiries 020 7270 5000
Media enquiries
Email pressoffice@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk
Treasury Press Office 020 7270 5238
Emergency media calls (out of hours) 020 7270 5000
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