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UK government spending

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    NHS funding in Budget will help ‘turn ship around’, says Wes Streeting

    Health secretary’s comments come after Treasury announces £1.5bn for service in 2025 to boost appointments

    Health secretary Wes Streeting, centre, and chancellor Rachel Reeves, right, visited St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London together
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Office for Budget Responsibility
    Hunt accuses OBR of ‘political intervention’ over spending review

    Former chancellor says watchdog’s plan to publish findings of review on Budget day is a ‘significant concern’

    Jeremy Hunt sits in his office at Portcullis House, engaging in conversation
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Three tests for Britain’s Budget

    Reeves must stabilise the economy, and pave the way for higher growth

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK social housing
    Treasury confirms plans for inflation-busting rise in UK social housing rents

    Rachel Reeves also announces £500mn cash boost to promote building of affordable homes

    House building site
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK local government finance
    English councils forecast £9.3bn deficit in three years, analysis shows

    Bennett Institute research underlines scale of strains social care placing on local government financing

    Birmingham City Council House
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Reeves confirms change to UK fiscal rules to help fund £20bn of annual investment

    Chancellor promises in FT to avoid ‘falls in public sector investment’ planned by Tories

    Rachel Reeves in Washington
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Gilts
    Rachel Reeves’ new rules

    She learned this one simple trick… hopefully bond markets don’t HATE her

  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    The unexamined big question around the UK Budget Premium content

    Ignore the details of how Labour will raise taxes, spending and borrowing, and ask instead how much

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are seen gesturing and smiling at the Labour party conference
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves wraps up ‘grim’ spending talks amid council bankruptcy fears

    Local government expected to suffer further squeeze in chancellor’s first Budget

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Gilts
    Everything you always wanted to know about bonds (but were afraid to ask)

    A gascon’s guide to gilts

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK to slash overseas aid in Budget as asylum seeker costs rise

    International development organisations warn country’s contribution could slump to its lowest level in 17 years

    People distribute UK Aid food and blankets
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    UK local government finance
    The English county facing the biggest financial ‘black hole’

    Even in relatively prosperous Hampshire, the cost of providing social care is swallowing up funding for everything else

    People walking in Winchester High Street in Hampshire
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    How much will it cost to fix the NHS in England?

    Latest data pinpoint financial strain on health service ahead of Budget

    Montage shows UK health secretary Wes Streeting against images of an NHS nurse, pound notes, a hospital wall and a frail, elderly person
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    National Health Service
    Public to be asked for suggestions on how to fix NHS

    Wes Streeting says health service is in ‘awful state’ as he launches ‘national conversation’ about its future

    Wes Streeting speaking to Pearse Keane at Moorfields eye hospital
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Jennifer Dixon
    Labour’s ‘reform or die’ mantra for the NHS misses the urgent tasks

    The real challenge is how to make fast enough progress to offset increasing demands on the health service

    NHS staff at a hospital in London
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Chris Giles
    A ‘full fat’ Budget is impossible — what are the trade-offs?

    Traditional Labour measures on tax and borrowing will need to be balanced with thinner fare to keep to fiscal constraints

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of the Budget red box surrounded by glass bottles of mil, some full, some half empty and some spilt.
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Scientific research
    UK innovation will be undermined by science department Budget squeeze, industry leaders warn

    Tight finances made worse by bill to rejoin EU programme Horizon

    A scientist works in a lab
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    UK ministers seek to reassure bond investors on their borrowing plans

    Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones sets out ‘guardrails’ for investment

    Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Starmer and Reeves face down cabinet revolt over spending cuts

    Ministers complain about Treasury approach as prime minister and chancellor finalise October 30 Budget

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    How will the UK government pay for much-needed infrastructure upgrades?

    High energy bills and troubled water sector trigger debate about which private finance schemes provide value for taxpayers

    Montage shows chancellor Rachel Reeves against pictures of a sewage treatment works, a school playground, electricity pylons and an NHS sign
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    ExplainerUK Autumn Budget 2024
    Why Reeves is ‘walking a tightrope’ ahead of the Budget

    UK chancellor will submit proposals to independent watchdog on Wednesday

    Montage shows Rachel Reeves against a backdrop of pound notes in Labour red
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    High Speed Two Ltd
    HS2 rail link will run into central London, says minister

    Louise Haigh says ‘it would never have made sense’ for controversial project to end in London suburbs

    Workers walk beside an HS2 high-speed rail construction site at Euston
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Rachel Reeves vows to ‘invest, invest, invest’

    FT exclusive: Chancellor seeks to reassure investors that ‘guardrails’ will be placed around extra borrowing for investment

    Rachel Reeves meets workers during a visit to the Encirc Glass factory in Chester
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Reeves raises hopes of investment surge as she attacks Tory plans

    UK chancellor vows to avoid Jeremy Hunt’s ‘mistakes’ and stokes optimism that spending could surpass manifesto

    Britain’s chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    UK confronts massive funding gap to tackle crumbling infrastructure

    Rachel Reeves is looking at loosening fiscal rules to allow her to increase borrowing to pay for investment

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves
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