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21 Oct 21
Borrowing by central government during the first half of 2021-22 was £43.4bn (28%) lower than official estimates made in March.
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19 Aug 21
Covid-19 support measures and the related economic slowdown saw the Scottish government's budget deficit spike to 22.4% of GDP last year, according to latest statistics.
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16 Apr 20
The UK government deficit could rise to as high as £260bn – about 12% of GDP – this financial year, as a result of the measures taken amid the coronavirus pandemic, economists at PwC have predicted.
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22 Nov 19
UK borrowing has risen to a five-year high as political leaders have laid out large spending plans, official figures have shown.
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2 Aug 19
Wales’s multi-billion-pound public finance deficit is reducing, but only because of spending cuts – not increasing revenues – according to experts at Cardiff University.
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25 Jun 19
A think-tank has warned most forms of Brexit will damage the UK economy - while the Office for National Statistics has predicted borrowing will increase this financial year.
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31 May 18
NHS trusts in England ended the last financial year with a deficit of £960m - £464m above the projected deficit of £496m, a regulator’s report out today has shown.
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4 Apr 16
Wales had a net fiscal deficit of £14.7bn in 2014/15, equivalent to almost a quarter of its estimated GDP, according to an analysis of its public finances.
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7 Jan 16
George Osborne will today warn the UK economy faces a “dangerous cocktail” of global threats that make it essential to complete the government’s plan to cut spending and get the public finances into...
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22 Dec 15
Chancellor George Osborne has been warned that the government could miss its deficit target for 2015/16 by as much as £7bn after public sector borrowing for November increased by £1.3bn compared to...
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10 Jun 15
The chancellor’s plan to legislate for spending surpluses could actually lead to governments taking greater risks with taxpayers’ money.
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16 Apr 15
The International Monetary Fund has forecast that the UK will continue to run a deficit until 2020, despite official Treasury projections showing a surplus in the public finances by 2018/19.
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13 Apr 15
Ed Miliband has today set out a plan for the Office for Budget Responsibility to verify a Labour government's plans to cut the deficit in every year of the next parliament.
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18 Mar 15
George Osborne’s statement included no details on tax rises or how to improve public sector efficiency, but the next government will likely need both to meet fiscal targets.
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18 Mar 15
Debt as a proportion of national income is to start falling, allowing Chancellor George Osborne to meet the fiscal target he set five years ago, he said today.
21 Oct 21Borrowing by central government during the first half of 2021-22 was £43.4bn (28%) lower than official estimates made in March.
19 Aug 21Covid-19 support measures and the related economic slowdown saw the Scottish government's budget deficit spike to 22.4% of GDP last year, according to latest statistics.
16 Apr 20The UK government deficit could rise to as high as £260bn – about 12% of GDP – this financial year, as a result of the measures taken amid the coronavirus pandemic, economists at PwC have predicted.
2 Aug 19Wales’s multi-billion-pound public finance deficit is reducing, but only because of spending cuts – not increasing revenues – according to experts at Cardiff University.
25 Jun 19A think-tank has warned most forms of Brexit will damage the UK economy - while the Office for National Statistics has predicted borrowing will increase this financial year.
31 May 18NHS trusts in England ended the last financial year with a deficit of £960m - £464m above the projected deficit of £496m, a regulator’s report out today has shown.
4 Apr 16Wales had a net fiscal deficit of £14.7bn in 2014/15, equivalent to almost a quarter of its estimated GDP, according to an analysis of its public finances.
7 Jan 16George Osborne will today warn the UK economy faces a “dangerous cocktail” of global threats that make it essential to complete the government’s plan to cut spending and get the public finances into...
22 Dec 15Chancellor George Osborne has been warned that the government could miss its deficit target for 2015/16 by as much as £7bn after public sector borrowing for November increased by £1.3bn compared to...
10 Jun 15The chancellor’s plan to legislate for spending surpluses could actually lead to governments taking greater risks with taxpayers’ money.
13 Apr 15Ed Miliband has today set out a plan for the Office for Budget Responsibility to verify a Labour government's plans to cut the deficit in every year of the next parliament.
18 Mar 15George Osborne’s statement included no details on tax rises or how to improve public sector efficiency, but the next government will likely need both to meet fiscal targets.
18 Mar 15Debt as a proportion of national income is to start falling, allowing Chancellor George Osborne to meet the fiscal target he set five years ago, he said today.
