David Cameron has today pledged that a Conservative government elected next month would conduct an annual review of Scottish Government policies to ensure no area of the UK loses out as a result of...
The UK’s unemployment rate fell to 5.6% between December and February, the lowest proportion of people out of work since the three months to July 2008, the Office of National Statistics figures...
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde backed the coalition government’s economic strategy, saying levels of growth showed the plan had ‘worked’.
Ed Miliband has today set out a plan for the Office for Budget Responsibility to verify a Labour government's plans to cut the deficit in every year of the next parliament.
Policies to boost the economy should be at the heart of the general election campaign, business leaders said after a survey of more than 7,500 companies revealed weaker growth in the first three...
County councils have today warned there are signs of a possible slowdown in economic growth that must be tackled through devolution of powers to boost productivity.
The next parliament should investigate whether benefit sanctions are being applied ‘appropriately, fairly and proportionately’ across the Jobcentre Plus network, according to the work and pensions...
The next government has been urged to set a fiscal target to increase the proportion of public money spent on early intervention programmes as part of its deficit reduction plan.
The head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has called on George Osborne to set out where his planned £12bn in welfare cuts would fall in the first two financial years of the next parliament.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has launched a review of the business rates system in England, which will consider how to use local retention of revenue to incentivise councils to...
The most deprived areas of England have suffered the deepest cuts in government funding during this Parliament, which has broken the historic link between local deprivation levels and spending, an...
The unemployment rate fell to 5.7% over the three months to December, the lowest level since 2008, Office of National Statistics figures have revealed.
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
UK inflation could turn negative in the spring and remain at zero for the rest of the year, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned, and insisted he would cut interest rates further if needed...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon chose a speech in London today to set out the Scottish Government’s alternative to the Westminster ‘cosy consensus’ in favour of fiscal austerity.
A future Conservative government would use the Treasury’s balance sheet to underwrite £1bn worth of loans to fast-growing businesses, David Cameron has said.
A future Labour government would introduce a tax dodging Bill that would see stronger independent scrutiny of the UK tax system and make country-by-country reporting information publicly available.
Both Labour and Liberal Democrat spending plans in the next parliament would provide a short-term boost to growth due to the proposals to borrow to pay for infrastructure development, an economic...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pledged an end to austerity in three years after May’s general election if the Liberal Democrats are returned to government.
