During the pandemic, increased innovation and accelerated digital service provision has been unevenly spread across public services, highlighting a new urgency to invest, writes Aidan Shilson-Thomas...
The UK economy continued its recovery in July as GDP rose by 6.6% month-on-month, the third consecutive month of growth following April’s record GDP fall of 20%, according to the Office for National...
The government’s Internal Market Bill could make a future free trade deal with the European Union harder, leaving UK GDP 2% worse off, according to ratings agency Fitch.
As director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson has overseen a period of ‘extraordinary’ lockdown output from his organisation, charting Covid-19’s economic impact.
Coronavirus has claimed over 700,000 lives and sparked a synchronised global downturn, but could it also sound the starting gun on transforming our society and public services?
Tax reforms should be implemented alongside the raising of tax rates to make eventual rises “less painful”, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested.
Economists’ predictions for the contraction in the UK’s GDP following Covid-19 became more pessimistic in August, according to the latest independent forecasts published by the Treasury.
The recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the biggest fall in the UK's quarterly gross domestic product since records began, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The Bank of England will continue to review the potential of negative interest rates, to help stimulate the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19, it said today.
The Welsh government is to allocate an additional £22.7m in funding for adult social care services, to help meet the additional costs resulting from Covid-19.
Savings made by private sector firms and employees during lockdown could help pay for tax rises to cover the repayment of government Covid-19 debt, according to the National Institute of Economic and...
The UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19 may not take place until late-2024, as hopes of a V-shaped recovery “diminish”, according to economists at advisory firm EY.
The Treasury is looking into the potential of an infrastructure bank, to help offset the funding loss from European Investment Bank, according to a report.
Ratings agency Moody’s has warned that it could downgrade the UK’s credit rating if it fails to provide a credible debt reduction strategy following Covid-19.
Central government has failed to give local authorities enough clarity over long-term funding during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee.
Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane has suggested negative interest rates could be implemented if further negative shocks are felt in the economy.
Local authority borrowing continued to rise in June to £3bn, £100m more than in May, and ten times higher than the figure for June 2019, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Half of new jobs by 2030 will be green, Record GDP fall in April, Global economy to plunge into worst recession since Second World War- all in Numbers Game from the July 2020 edition of Public...
The government will need a plan to manage its Covid-related debt in place by the autumn, according to former permanent secretary to the Treasury, Lord Macpherson.
