The lifetime allowance is to be cut from £1,250,000 to £1m, Chancellor George Osborne has said in his Budget this afternoon. Read more...

Further details on the latest annuity reforms, a cut in the liftetime allowance and the scrapping of the traditional annual tax return system are predicted to be key parts of today's Budget. Read more...

The pensioner bonds have become the biggest selling retail financial product in Britain's modern history, the Government has announced, as it extended the time they will be available for. Read more...

Below is the full text of George Osborne's Autumn Statement, delivered this afternoon in Parliament.