The public sector ran a £15bn surplus in January – the biggest on record for that month – as a result of strong taxes coming in, official figures have revealed.
Northern Ireland’s public services incurred the biggest spending per head in the UK in 2016-17, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.
The Office for National Statistics has begun work to look at reclassifying students loans so they are treated in a unique way in the national accounts.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 between September and December last year because of housing association reclassification, official figures have shown.
Government borrowing in December 2017 dropped by half compared with the same period in 2016 because of higher tax receipts and a rebate from the EU, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The UK’s public sector borrowing is forecast to increase to £49.9bn during the current financial year, ending in March 2018, according to official figures.
The growth rate of the UK economy was slower than expected in the first three months of the year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
The UK unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6% - its lowest in 42 years - but wage growth falling behind inflation is causing a pay squeeze, official figures show.
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...
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Public sector borrowing has increased in the first two months of 2016-17, despite large reductions in grants from Whitehall to local authorities, according to figures from the Office for National...
Public sector borrowing in the 2015-16 financial year has been revised upwards by £2bn and now stands at £76.0bn, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
The economy could be larger than official statistics show as measurements fail to effectively capture new forms of activity in the digital economy, according to a government-commissioned review by...
