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  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    UK Inequality
    Shift in government spending has cut UK inequality, study finds

    IFS says increase in health provision, wider access to education and introduction of university fees is behind change

  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Reduced immigration demands do not align with realities of low funding

    The Conservative party needs to address issue of spending on skills and staffing

  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    Hunt offers new funds for UK public sector pay deals

    Chancellor tells MPs Whitehall departments could ask for money from central government

  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    OutlookJennifer Williams
    Time is money and it’s being wasted in the north

    Improved transport is vital if the UK chancellor’s ‘Canary Wharf’ investment zones are to succeed

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK Treasury to provide extra funding for NHS pay deal

    Hope that any resolution may aid other public sector settlements, but schools dispute still acrimonious

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    UK public services need more cash to arrest further decline, says damning report

    Situation will be even harder for whoever wins next election, finds Institute for Government

  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    English colleges face funding hit after ban on commercial loans

    Further education now covered by strict lending limits after being reclassified as part of public sector

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Scotland
    Warning that Scotland faces ‘four difficult years’ of weak growth

    Deputy first minister says Holyrood may have to cut to public-sector jobs and spending

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK braced for biggest day of strikes this winter

    Workers from rail, teaching and university sectors to walk out on February 1 in co-ordinated action over pay

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The NHS needs a no-taboos review

    Structure and funding of the UK health system should be re-examined for a new era

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity

    A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Can the UK government afford to increase public sector pay?

    Prime minister claims offers are ‘fair’ but experts say £28bn estimate on cost of big rises is misleading

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    UK employment
    UK private sector wage growth accelerates

    Pay rose 6.9% in three months to October but fell in real terms because of inflation

  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    Martin Wolf
    The UK government’s policy on public sector pay is foolish

    Letting inflation reduce real wages while expecting services to be maintained is dishonest

  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    Backlog Britain: How public sector delays spiralled to record levels

    Pandemic pressures combined with long-term cuts have left vital services under chronic strain

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    UK government spending
    Hunt plans post-election squeeze on spending with ‘Austerity 2.0’

    Day-to-day spending on public services to be frozen in real terms for three years from 2025

  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    Sarah O'Connor
    Hunt still has a fiscal hole to fill, but Britain’s fabric is fraying

    After a decade of austerity, public services are not an easy target to cut

  • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
    James Kirkup
    Public services will wither unless the UK makes hard tax choices

    The Truss camp’s calls to ‘roll back the frontiers of the state’ invite the question: to where?

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Free LunchChris Cook
    The UK lacks a clear plan for fighting inflation Premium content

    Don’t try to tame price rises by using public services as an anchor

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    News in-depth
    UK government produces public sector pay offer that pleases no one

    Partial concession leaves workers unhappy and managers facing tough decisions

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    UK employment
    UK private sector pay grows five times as fast as public wages

    Figures come as unions threaten strikes if government holds wage rises below 5%

  • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
    UK labour disputes
    Millions of British public sector workers to be offered 5% pay rise

    Revised deal comes as below-inflation offers across economy look set to trigger months of strikes

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Johnson’s plan to cut civil service risks ‘adverse impacts’, memo says

    Departments will need to ‘consider reprioritisation’ of existing plans, say Treasury and Cabinet Office

  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
    Stagecoach Group PLC
    Stagecoach agrees rival £595mn offer from DWS in blow to National Express

    Bid sends Scottish bus operator’s shares up nearly 40% as board recommends pulling out from planned merger

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    National Health Service
    NHS on ‘unsustainable financial trajectory’, says Sajid Javid

    ‘Small-state Tory’ says sectors from education to infrastructure will suffer without reform

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