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Lord Lipsey leaves FSCS

Pre-budget report

Scottish Home Reports

Pensions

Deposit protection

Financial Advice

LORD LIPSEY LEAVES FSCS

Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP)

Financial Services Authority (FSA)

FSA Statement: David Lipsey to resign as chairman of Financial Services Consumer Panel

FSA, May 2008: New Financial Services Consumer Panel Chairman appointed

PRE-BUDGET REPORT

HM Treasury

HM Treasury: Pre-Budget 2008

HM Treasury: Pre-Budget 2008 - full report

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

IFS: Pre-Budget Report 2008

HMRC: Pre-Budget 2008

Party websites

Labour

Labour: Pre Budget Report offers help for families, businesses and the economy

Conservatives

Conservatives: George Osborne: Response to PBR 2008

Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats: Pre-Budget Report: Darling's £5bn tax hike will hit low earners and business - Cable

Economy

Bank of England

Bank of England Inflation Report

National Institute of Economic and Social Research

London Stock Exchange

Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)

KPMG

KPMG: UK Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report 2008

Tax

HMRC

HMRC: Pre-Budget 2008

HMRC: Business Payment Support Service

HMRC: 2008 PBR Personal Tax, Child Benefit and Tax Credit changes

HMRC: Pre-Budget Report 2008 - VAT Rate Changes

Directgov: Tax

Directgov: Income tax rates for 2009-10

Advice Guide: Tax

Advice Guide: Help with tax problems

Advice Guide: Tax rebates

Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW)

Chartered Institute of Taxation

Benefits

Directgov: money, tax and benefits

Directgov: Pre-Budget Report 2008

Directgov: Benefit rates for 2009

Department for Work and Pensions: Benefits A-Z

DWP: Benefits helplines

Job Centre Plus

Job Centre Plus: Working Age Benefits

Entitled to: Find out which benefits you can get

Small business

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Federation of Small Business

Federation of Small Businesses reaction to the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report 2008

HMRC- Business Payment Support

HMRC- A guide on VAT for businesses

HMRC- Q&A on VAT for business

SCOTTISH HOME REPORTS

The Scottish government

The Scottish government: Home Reports

The Law Society of Scotland

The Law Society of Scotland news release: Law Society to push for early review of Home Reports

Scottish Law Agents Society

Scottish Law Agents Society: Leaflet issued by the Scottish Law Agents Society concerning compulsory Home Reports

PENSIONS

Personal Accounts

NAPF welcomes pensions bill

DWP: The Pensions Act 2008

DWP: Personal Accounts

TUC: Pensions

TUC: No alternative to personal accounts

November 2007 - Which?: Pensions Bill to launch Personal Accounts

Government sites

The Pension Service (helpline 0845 60 60 265)

The Pensions Service: Pensions at work

The Pensions Service: Pensions Act 2008

FSA: Pensions Made Clear

FSA: Comparative Tables

HMRC: Pension Schemes Services

HMRC: Pensions Tax Simplification

DEPOSIT PROTECTION

Deposit Protection for Merged Building Societies

FSA press release: FSA move allows separate deposit protection limits

Building Societies Association press release: BSA welcomes changes to FSCS coverage for building society mergers

Nationwide press release: Latest news on savings protection

Safety of savings

FSCS Consumer Helpline: 020 7892 7300

FSA Consumer Helpline: From UK: 0845 606 1234

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

FSCS: How to make a Deposit claim

FSCS: EEA firms that have topped up

Financial Services Authority: Compensation

Financial Services Authority: Register

Financial Services Authority: list of UK authorised banks

Financial Ombudsman Service

This is Money: How to save safely with UK banks and building societies

MoneySavingExpert.com: Guide to FSCS including table showing banking licences

Icesave

Financial Services Compensation Scheme Icesave helpline: 0845 7300 131.

If you are an Icesave customer and have not received the e-mail from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, telling you how to claim your money, you can call the helpline for more information.

FSCS: Icesave FAQs

FSCS protection for savers at Heritable and Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander

Icesave

Deloitte UK news release: Joint Administrators secure part-payment to depositors of Landsbanki Guernsey Limited (in Administration)

HM Treasuryp ress notice: Landsbanki, Icesave and Heritable, 9 October 2008

HM Treasury press notice: Landsbanki, Icesave and Heritable, 8 October 2008

FSA: Icesave - updated statement on Icesave compensation

FSCS: FSCS gears up to assist Icesave's UK branch customers

FSCS: Latest news

States of Guernsey: Statement by Deputy Carla McNulty Bauer, Minister, Commerce and Employment Department: Deposit protection

States of Jersey: Deposit Protection

Isle of Man - Financial Services Act 2008: Compensation of Depositors Regulations

Isle of Man Government: Financial Supervision Commission

FINANCIAL ADVICE

IFA Promotions

The Personal Finance Society

Association of Independent Financial Advisers

FSA Guide to financial advice

FSA: Firm and person check

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