The world’s rapidly growing cities will need high quality financial management and new sources of revenue if they are invest in a high quality infrastructure needed to remain competitive amid...
Public sector borrowing in the first eight months of the financial year is £7.7bn lower than in the same period of 2015-16, according to the latest figures published by the Office for National...
The economies of post-industrial towns must be made more resilient if the North is to prosper after the UK leaves the European Union, delegates at IPPR North’s State of the North conference...
The government has been urged to improve the evaluation of spending on apprenticeships in order to maintain the “crucial distinction” between quality and quantity.
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first and last Autumn Statement in parliament today, announcing that the annual fiscal event will be abolished with immediate effect.
Chancellor Philip Hammond today set out three new fiscal rules as he confirmed the government had abandoned its plan to reach a spending surplus by 2020.
Brexit is likely to cost the UK economy 2.4 percentage points in growth over the next five years, according to Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts highlighted by chancellor Philip Hammond in...
Theresa May’s vision of a Britain that works for everyone can only be achieved if people can retrain and develop new skills later in life through improved lifelong learning, according to a group of...
The Department for International Development may struggle to deliver its goals if the pound fails to recover from its post-EU referendum plunge, the department’s permanent secretary has warned.
The UK is heading for a £14.9bn deficit by 2019-20 instead of the £10.4bn surplus projected at the last Budget, according to an analysis of the public finances by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The UK economy will slow down in 2017, with the triggering of the Article 50 process to leave the European Union among the risks to growth, an analysis from the National Institute of Economic and...
Economic growth fell in the first three months following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics – but the preliminary...
Chancellor Philip Hammond faces a sharp deterioration in the public finances in his Autumn Statement, but could still increase investment if he delivers his promised fiscal ‘reset’, the...
The fall in the value of the pound has created a hole in the EU’s budget for next year, according to the chief negotiator from the European Parliament.
Public borrowing was £10.6bn in September – an increase of £1.3bn compared to the same month in 2015 – exceeding Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts and adding to the...
The Local Government Association has criticised Sajid Javid’s decision to overrule a local planning decision to give the go ahead to a horizontal fracking scheme in Lancashire.
The government is to create a £3bn housebuilding fund and directly commission homes on public sector land as part of plans to build more than 25,000 new homes before 2020, ministers have said.
