The government has failed to budget for £30bn of additional costs resulting from Covid-19 over the next three years, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The Bank of England has outlined plans to explore how negative interest rates could be implemented for the first time, to help the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19.
The Bank of England will continue to review the potential of negative interest rates, to help stimulate the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19, it said today.
Savings made by private sector firms and employees during lockdown could help pay for tax rises to cover the repayment of government Covid-19 debt, according to the National Institute of Economic and...
The government will need a plan to manage its Covid-related debt in place by the autumn, according to former permanent secretary to the Treasury, Lord Macpherson.
Public sector borrowing for the financial year-to-date is at its lowest level since 2008, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics – but inflation has now...
In such a data-rich world, how can the public trust government figures? Ed Humpherson of the UK Statistics Authority talks to PF about his plans to improve regulation and champion professional...
Facts and figures from the March 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine, featuring public trust in officials, EU vs UK vs US employment trends, inflation, housebuilding and Brexit
Most rail fares are to rise by 1% in 2016 after the Retail Prices Index figure for July 2015 was published by the Office for National Statistics today.