The chair of the House of Commons’ science and technology select committee has called on the government to set out a road map to increase public spending on research and development to boost...
The economy could be larger than official statistics show as measurements fail to effectively capture new forms of activity in the digital economy, according to a government-commissioned review by...
The prospect of Britain leaving the European Union following the upcoming referendum represents the “biggest domestic risk” to the economy, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has...
The government should develop an economic strategy to support England’s fastest growing cities, including financial powers to boost housebuilding and maintain higher levels of productivity,...
Poor secondary school performance is setting the Northern Powerhouse up to “splutter and die”, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw warned in a speech today.
Treasury ministers have interfered inappropriately with the work of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility and rules governing relations between the department and the economic watchdog...
Public sector borrowing in February and March will need to be nearly 50% lower than the same two months in 2015 for the Treasury to meet its deficit target, the Office for Budget Responsibility said...
Facts and figures from the March 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine, featuring public trust in officials, EU vs UK vs US employment trends, inflation, housebuilding and Brexit
The unemployment rate remained at its lowest rate in a decade at 5.1% in the three months to December, according to latest Office for National Statistics data.
The £27bn boost to the public finances used by George Osborne at last November’s Spending Review to reduce the scope of planned spending cuts could turn out to be “illusory”,...
George Osborne’s plans to get the government finances into surplus in 2019/20 are set to reduce public sector pay to the lowest level relative to the private sector for at least 25 years, an...
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...
A review by the European Commission has found that the public finances in the UK face a high level of risk due to increasing public sector debt levels forecast over the next decade.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research forecasts that chancellor George Osborne will have to revise down his economic growth predictions in the March budget and has questioned his chances of...
The number of people out of work has fallen to the lowest level since before the 2008 recession that followed the financial crisis, according to figures published by the Office for National...
Facts and figures from the Jan/Feb 2016 edition of Public Finance, including employment trends, pensions, cool welcomes across Europe, the perils of perception and a postmortem of election polling
Councils have been urged to set up new town centre investment funds that could help revitalise high streets across the country in a report backed by the British Property Federation and the Department...
George Osborne will today warn the UK economy faces a “dangerous cocktail” of global threats that make it essential to complete the government’s plan to cut spending and get the public finances into...
Council leaders in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire have called on ministers to approve a draft devolution deal that would establish a directly elected mayor across the two counties and could create 55...
