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22 Jun 18
The way the UK spends its international aid budget will be “reset” to help the world’s poor and win back the trust of “sceptical” British taxpayers, Penny Mordaunt has said.
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22 Jun 18
Government borrowing this financial year is so far down £4.1bn on the same period last year, according to latest public finance statistics.
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18 Jun 18
An independent Scotland would face at least another decade of austerity, according to new analysis of the proposals put forward last month by the Sustainable Growth Commission.
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7 Jun 18
Scotland should have greater control over immigration in the wake of subdued growth forecasts for its economy, according to its finance secretary Derek Mackay.
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31 May 18
The Scottish Fiscal Commission is due to publish economic and fiscal forecasts today. With so much uncertainty, making those predictions will be a difficult task. Alan Bermingham explains why.
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9 May 18
A new publicly owned bank is to invest £2bn over the next decade to make Scotland’s economy fairer and more prosperous, the Scottish Government has said.
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16 Apr 18
The government must provide funding to help the UK become a “world leader” in the use of artificial intelligence, a group of Lords has said.
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22 Feb 18
Unemployment has increased and growth is slower than predicted, although public sector borrowing is down, according to official data.
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3 Apr 17
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3 Oct 16
Philip Hammond has indicated the Treasury will be prepared to revisit government spending plans throughout the process of leaving the European Union.
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16 Dec 15
Unemployment in the UK fell to 5.2%, its lowest level for almost 10 years, in the three months to October, official figures have revealed.
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18 Aug 15
CIPFA recently hosted a one-day summit for public sector CFOs, sponsored by Newton Europe and held under the Chatham House rule
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18 Aug 15
This summer’s CIPFA CFO Summit focused on building long-term plans for sustainable public services
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10 Aug 15
The UK’s so-called productivity puzzle can be partly explained by a shift in the economy towards low-skilled, low-paid sectors such as food and accommodation, the Institute for Public Policy Research...
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8 Jul 15
The Office of Budget Responsibility has revised down its forecast for UK economic growth this year, but has increased its projection for 2017 onwards.
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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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19 May 15
The UK is officially in deflation for the first time since 1960 as prices fell in the economy over the year to April, the Office for National Statistics has announced today.
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6 May 15
Poor economic performance could derail manifesto pledges, but ambitious targets for productivity are missing
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6 May 15
The UK economy will not grow as strongly as previously forecast in 2015 following the lower-than-expected expansion in the first three months of the year, the National Institute of Economic and...
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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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18 Feb 15
The unemployment rate fell to 5.7% over the three months to December, the lowest level since 2008, Office of National Statistics figures have revealed.
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13 Feb 15
Sir Roger Carr is Chairman of BAE Systems, a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, Senior Advisor to KKR and a Visiting Fellow of Saïd Business School. Sir Roger was formerly...
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13 Feb 15
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
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13 Feb 15
UK inflation could turn negative in the spring and remain at zero for the rest of the year, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned, and insisted he would cut interest rates further if needed...
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11 Feb 15
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon chose a speech in London today to set out the Scottish Government’s alternative to the Westminster ‘cosy consensus’ in favour of fiscal austerity.