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A Deloitte feature: spending review cross-government analysis
...left with £265.9bn.The Government has said it wants to extract...timately, the largest risk to government is if it chooses to limit the...ding financial leadership for government initiatives. It does so by pr...he supply of public services, government has to accept supplier failur...
432 days ago
Turnbull: Political overconfidence to blame for public finances deficit
...civil servants from telling politicians that borrowing was too high, he said: “The...lity, which has been set up by the coalition government. “Having someone outside t...inking.” Turnbull said that that excessive borrowing started to be a problem from...
513 days ago
The public will clear up this mess - as long as they're treated fairly
Borrowing got us into this mess. For years, banks, companies a...sh; though on the part of the government, it was a crime of omission....ontrol the banks, but blaming government for the credit crunch is like...en while spending cuts reduce government’s capacity, the recess...
601 days ago
...onsibilities and pressures of government have evidently evaporated.The trappings of government have disappeared, too: his...ed about with by successive governments” rather than kept as a fre...challenges for the present government is that in the past, people h...
111 days ago
...Cooperatives UK. But central government officials will need to get up...nths and years: the coalition government plans to boost the mutual mov...s the programme will help the government learn more about the sector,...able to apply for funding and borrowing from a greater range of source...
180 days ago
Editorial: If it’s not working, do something else
...ent made clear yesterday, the government’s plans to cut us back to g...ts since 2007 have taught the government nothing about honesty on borrowing or property markets. Outline p...r mortgages make explicit the government’s commitment to underwrite...
63 days ago
...evelopment a key plank of the government’s growth strategy, the Trea...ublic and private investment. Government, said the NIP, will be taking...forward at contracts that the government is going to let”, covering...r partly privately funded. “Government still has a role, of course,...
6 days ago
Feature: The end of tiffs over TIF?
...test sign that attitudes within government are beginning to change. The...stening. Last week the Scottish Government gave the go-ahead for an £84...a former Communities and Local Government (CLG) special adviser and now...will remain in place until the borrowing that it finances has been rep...
180 days ago
Departments that have not been promised protection face cuts of more than six per cent, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has calculatedServices and departments that have not been promised protection in the pre-Budget report face cuts of more than six per cent, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IF...
Tags: government borrowing, government spending, pre-budget reports
754 days ago
The government nuclear clean-up agency has been sold for £50m to a support services firmThe government nuclear clean-up agency has been sold for £50m to the support services firm Babcock International.The sale of the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) commercial arm is a "win, win, win result...
Tags: government borrowing
754 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...the Treasury’s rule that prevents the Government paying work providers us...3-4 years (Para 18.1). I believe the Public Borrowing requirement of some £175...t year. How else do we pay for the excess of Government debt? Even if 20 million hou...856 days ago
