Government spending plans remain within a fiscal rule to show debt falling as a share of the economy in a few years’ time, but this largely relies on fuel duty rising – a prospect described by a...
The government should avoid “prioritising politically driven tax cuts while decimating services” during Wednesday’s Budget, public sector unions have said.
The government's fiscal credibility is at risk amid the possibility it announces pre-election tax cuts or spending later this year – on top of an upcoming Budget already based on ‘fiscal fiction’ – a...
Growing demand and increasing costs have worsened financial pressures in NHS Scotland that could put its long-term affordability at risk, the national watchdog has warned.
Cutting taxes ahead of this year’s general election would only meet the government’s fiscal rule if some departments face a “fresh round of austerity”, which is unlikely given the state of public...
The Treasury Committee has called for answers on procurement deals with the company at the centre of the Post Office scandal following the 2019 High Court ruling that exonerated sub-postmasters.
NHS trusts’ inconsistent use of a central procurement body means the service is not “making the most” of its enormous buying power, the National Audit Office has said.
Higher-than-expected public sector pay and meeting spending commitments will create a £1.5bn gap in Scotland’s 2024-25 budget, the Fraser of Allander Institute has warned.
“Systemic underfunding” has put Northern Ireland’s education services into a financial crisis that could have a “lasting and detrimental impact on learners,” the Independent Review of Education has...
Growing confidence in UK policymaking in the year following the mini-budget has prompted ratings agency Moody’s to revise its credit outlook for the UK back to ‘stable’.
Significant government investment to almost quadruple social and affordable home-building could reduce homelessness and deliver net economic benefits of £1.5bn a year, researchers have said.
Increasing taxes would bring the tax burden in line with other advanced economies and support more effective public services, the Institute for Public Policy Research has said.
Record oil and gas income in Scotland helped to close the gap between money raised and spent on public services last year, the latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland report said.
The absence of a clear plan to build and fund new nuclear plants could put the government’s carbon neutral goals at risk, a parliamentary committee has warned.
The government will need to adopt permanent tax hikes or spending cuts to avoid debt soaring to more than 300% of GDP by the 2070s, the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
Ambitious Labour and Conservative plans to decarbonise the UK power sector will fail without a substantial increase in investment - and the money needed could be “politically infeasible”, a former...
Government spending has become more progressive in recent decades, but current plans have put this trend in jeopardy, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
New gloomy predictions of long-term economic growth suggest pensions promised to public sector workers will be more costly than anticipated, economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have warned.
