Chancellor Sajid Javid’s £13.8bn Spending Round is likely to exceed the government’s borrowing limits, the chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
The short-term nature of the funding announced in the Spending Round will not help the NHS plan to transform services, says the King’s Fund’s Sally Warren.
The communities secretary has postponed implementation of changes to local government funding following the Fair Funding Review and to business rates retention.
Although education had some certainty for the next three years, other public services did not and some areas are still likely to feel the pinch of austerity over the next year, says CIPFA’s Don...
As the battle for Brexit rages on, the government turned around a super fast one-year Spending Round. But sustainable funding requires longer-term thinking, writes Jonathan Werran.
New chancellor Sajid Javid outlined the government’s plans for education funding as he “turned the page on austerity” in his Spending Round, although Labour criticised his commitments as “meaningless...
The one-year Spending Round will not deliver the funding answers needed for public services and suspending parliament will mean “important domestic agendas” are put on hold.
