Reforms to local government finance mean councils will be increasingly dependent on economic growth to fund services, which could put further pressure on areas such as adult social care, the Centre...
Spending on arts and culture generates a higher return per pound than investments in health, wholesale & retail trade and professional services, according to research published today.
The government should simplify planning regulations further to boost private sector housebuilding and construction, according to the Centre for Policy Studies.
The UK has yet to make a ‘sustained recovery’ from the financial crisis as economic output has been flat for more than two and a half years, an analysis by the National Institute of Economic and...
It’s all change at the Bank of England with a new governor about to take over the reins and a revised remit from the chancellor. So can Mark Carney deliver, asks James Zuccollo
The June Spending Review is going to slice Whitehall’s funding cake so thinly that departments will be left fighting over the crumbs. So how are public services meant to cope, asks Tony Travers
The Treasury is to underwrite £75m worth of investment in the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire in the first confirmed deal using government-backed funding guarantees.
The government has extended the Funding for Lending Scheme for a year and introduced extra incentives to encourage banks to lend to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Public sector borrowing in 2012/13 was £120.6bn, excluding special factors, down just £300m on the previous year, the Office for National Statistics has announced.
The Local Government Association has today urged MPs to halt plans for a ‘free-for-all’ on home extensions that could have a negative impact on local communities.
An independent Scotland’s debt burden could shrink to around half the current UK level if it were credited with historic North Sea oil revenues, the Scottish Government has claimed.
The first phase of the government-backed British Business Bank has been launched with a pledge to provide £300m of support to small- and medium-sized firms in the first round of investments
Councils in the North of England should issue a collective municipal bond to raise funds for capital projects, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
Plans to establish Community Budgets across England have taken a step forward after the government wrote to councils offering help to pool local funding across the public sector.
Competing calls to increase growth and further reduce spending and taxes resulted in a Budget that was ‘muddling through at best’, Jonathan Portes told CIPFA's World-Class Performance Symposium.