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1 Feb 17
Facts and figures from the January/February edition of Public Finance magazine on the cost of Brexit, the plight of the “Jams” and the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace
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21 Dec 16
Public sector borrowing in the first eight months of the financial year is £7.7bn lower than in the same period of 2015-16, according to the latest figures published by the Office for National...
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19 Dec 16
The year of 2016 saw many seismic changes, but ministers' approach to local government finance has remained the same. This has increased the risk that town hall’s two main revenue streams – council...
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25 Nov 16
The Welsh finance secretary has welcomed the increase in capital funding announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in the Autumn Statement this week, but said it did not go far enough.
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25 Nov 16
In his first fiscal set piece, the new chancellor needed to paint a picture of a financially confident Britain but this was not an encouraging Autumn Statement
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25 Nov 16
Chancellor Philip Hammond will not be able to resist calls for extra funding for health and social care for much longer, the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted.
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24 Nov 16
Although infrastructure investment featured highly in the chancellor’s Autumn Statement, there was scant support for local projects and communities
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23 Nov 16
The UK's infrastructure and skills gap needs to be addressed without further unbalancing the country's economy
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23 Nov 16
It’s safe to say housing is back on the agenda and today’s Autumn Statement is a welcome step in the right direction, but there is more to be done
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23 Nov 16
Philip Hammond went into this Autumn Statement with little room for manoeuvre but there were some telling tweaks
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23 Nov 16
Scotland stands to gain just over £800m in extra capital spending over the next five years from the increased investment announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in the Autumn Statement today.
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23 Nov 16
The chancellor says he wants to build a resilient economy but without more certainty on funding, councils will not be able to plan ahead
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23 Nov 16
Philip Hammond has pledged a real terms doubling of the government’s annual spending on housing through a £2.3bn fund unveiled in the Autumn Statement today.
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23 Nov 16
Council and NHS leaders have lamented today’s Autumn Statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ to allay the burgeoning health and social care funding crisis.
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23 Nov 16
The chancellor didn’t display much in the way of fancy footwork in his first Autumn Statement. But his room for manoeuvre was limited
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23 Nov 16
Combined authorities led by mayors are to be given borrowing powers and councils will have access to new low-cost loans under proposals set out today in the Autumn Statement to boost local growth.
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23 Nov 16
Philip Hammond’s announcements on housing and mayoral borrowing powers represent a welcome shift in policy. But social care’s absence from the chancellor’s speech is more worrying.
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23 Nov 16
The investment in productivity announced in the Autumn Statement is too narrowly focused to benefit the economy as a whole
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23 Nov 16
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first and last Autumn Statement in parliament today, announcing that the annual fiscal event will be abolished with immediate effect.
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23 Nov 16
Chancellor Philip Hammond today set out three new fiscal rules as he confirmed the government had abandoned its plan to reach a spending surplus by 2020.
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23 Nov 16
Brexit is likely to cost the UK economy 2.4 percentage points in growth over the next five years, according to Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts highlighted by chancellor Philip Hammond in...
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21 Nov 16
Theresa May’s vision of a Britain that works for everyone can only be achieved if people can retrain and develop new skills later in life through improved lifelong learning, according to a group of...
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21 Nov 16
Prime minister Theresa May has announced that the government is to invest an extra £2bn in research and development by 2020.
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21 Nov 16
NHS finances seem set for a reckoning, but it may come in the 2017 Autumn Statement rather than this week’s announcement by Philip Hammond
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17 Nov 16
Failure to prevent damaging social problems such as domestic violence, abuse, unemployment and youth crime costs the public sector around £17bn a year in England and Wales, according to the Early...