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6 Jul 15
The UK’s biggest cities could raise an extra £9bn in revenue every year if they could boost their economic performance to match the national average, a study by the Centre for Cities has found.
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10 Jun 15
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has estimated that gross domestic product in the UK increased by 0.6% between March and May.
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8 Jun 15
The CBI has downgraded its UK economic forecasts for this year and next, and is now predicting growth of 2.4% in 2015, rising to 2.5% in 2016.
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15 May 15
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire county councils are to form a groundbreaking alliance to seek devolved powers to boost economic growth.
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13 May 15
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has estimated that gross domestic product in the UK increased by 0.4% between February and April.
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18 Mar 15
The unemployment rate was 5.7% over the three months to January, Office of National Statistics figures have revealed ahead of today’s Budget.
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26 Sep 14
Chief finance officers across Britain’s top 350 firms have backed the government’s deficit-reduction plans, but are warning that political uncertainty around next year’s general election could hit...
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24 Mar 14
Shadow Treasury chief secretary Chris Leslie says that he wants to ‘declutter’ public services and chuck out the deficit. He talks to PF about Labour’s economic makeover
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30 Jan 14
London is driving the recovery, but other large UK cities should be contributing much more. They must be given the tools to grow their economies and respond to local circumstances
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13 Nov 13
Recent good news on the jobs front should not obscure the fact that real wages have been falling for at least four years. Overall, the wage squeeze has created a lost decade for pay
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24 Jun 13
Local government anxiously awaits the outcome of the Spending Review. But it's not just the overall totals that count, it's also the fairness of the distribution system - and poorer councils...