A report published by the National Audit Office into the creation and sale of Northern Rock reveals that the government is likely to lose £2bn overall by the time all the assets are wound down. The BBC’s business editor Robert Peston has the details.

Chinese property prices continued to fall during April after the government kept policies in place to curb speculation.

Parents are being offered free support and advice on bringing up their families, under a new initiative being launched by the government.

More than 70 MPs sign a motion calling on the Government to cancel the planned introduction of tax on static caravans.

Shares in Spanish bank Bankia continue to dive as the government denies reports of a rush of withdrawals from the troubled group.

Free speech campaigners are calling on the government to change a law which bans “insulting words and behaviour” claiming the Public Order Act is over-used.

Teachers’ pay in England and Wales could be linked to performance and set at different local levels, under proposals set out by the government.

Seven people are killed and more than 20 injured in clashes in Libya’s western desert town of Ghadames, the government says.

An application to give the Lincolnshire sausage special protection is turned down by the government.

Downing Street is about to review the government’s Green Deal after warnings that it’s liable to fail.