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17 Jul 18
Health spending will put public finances under “significant pressure” over the next 50 years, the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
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7 Jun 18
Ministers will have to make unpopular decisions on taxation to raise health service funding, says Thomas Pope of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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18 Nov 16
The UK government has scored highly on an international fiscal transparency measure published by the International Monetary Fund, in which it was advised to consider scrapping the Autumn Statement.
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4 Aug 16
Chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to bring forward plans for a public spending reset after the Bank of England cut interest rates to a record low of 0.25% in response to economic concerns...
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3 Feb 16
Changes to government spending plans announced in last year's Spending Review mean George Osborne could miss his target of achieving a budget surplus by 2020, the National Institute of Economic...
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12 Jun 15
While the chancellor plays political games with fiscal policy, he prevents a real debate on paying for an ageing population.
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7 Apr 15
RBS’s chief economist talks to Public Finance about the economic outlook as we head into the 2015 general election