Work and welfare policy took centre stage in the general election campaign this week, as official statistics showed that unemployment was on the rise again.
Never mind a double-dip recession. Many regions and sectors in the UK are already facing a double economic whammy. In the second of their mini-series, Roger Latham and Malcolm Prowle argue that...
Economists have said detailed financial plans in the Liberal Democrat manifesto do not give a complete enough picture of what they would do if they formed the next government.
Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru has made its pitch for the general election, claiming to be the only party that would protect public services in Wales.
National Insurance policy remains the main economic dividing line between Labour and the Conservatives after both parties published election manifestos short on public spending detail
Forecasts of an unprecedented £3bn cut in Scottish public services over the next three years are unreliable, an expert on public finance has told a budget review panel
Figures hailed by the government as ‘vindicating’ its efforts to tackle the recession should be treated with caution, a leading economist has told Public Finance.
Public sector ‘fat cats’ are the latest target of attacks as the financial crisis continues. Could independent remuneration committees restore faith in senior staff pay? Duncan Brown reports
Chancellor Alistair Darling declined to rule out real-terms cuts to benefits payments this morning after pressure from MPs to explain how he plans to bring down the fiscal deficit
The public sector has been left in the dark as to the expected squeeze in finances after Chancellor Alistair Darling delivered a Budget that was light on economic detail and heavy on pre-election...
Whitehall departments have set out how they plan to achieve the government’s efficiency target of £11bn a year by the end of the next Spending Review period.
Plans to increase the financial powers of Scotland’s Parliament amount to the most dramatic change in taxation ever envisaged by the UK Treasury, Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy told the CIPFA in...
The government is offering commitments on skills training for young people at the same time as making wholesale changes to the structure of further education funding. Can this be done at a time of...
Has Alistair Darling’s Budget done enough to rein in public spending? Economists, as ever, are divided. In this first of three features on the changing UK economy, Roger Latham and Malcolm Prowle...
