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  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    Government pledges £250m in extra funding for academic research

    Academics welcome commitment to help underwrite Horizon, after weeks of uncertainty

  • Sunday, 28 March, 2021
    Research cuts put UK’s reputation at risk, say academics

    Reduced budgets threaten to undermine the government’s ‘science superpower’ ambitions

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    UK business & economy
    UK state-backed Covid loans top £75bn as schemes wind down

    More than 25% of small to medium-sized businesses have tapped emergency programmes

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    National Health Service
    Boris Johnson hints at bigger pay rise for England’s nurses

    Prime minister under pressure to put better deal on the table after Scottish government offers NHS staff a 4% increase

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    UK foreign policy
    Defence and security review sets out Global Britain’s balancing act

    Striking announcements on nuclear deterrent, biological and chemical warfare, and even of potential for another pandemic

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    UK universities
    Universities warn over £1bn bill for staying in EU research programme

    Jobs and projects at risk if UK Research and Innovation has to cover fee for Horizon Europe on its own, says letter to PM

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    England’s £23bn test and trace programme condemned by MPs

    ‘Unimaginable’ level of spending made no ‘measurable difference’ to spread of virus, report finds

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Fresh wave of Covid infections will hit UK this year, experts say

    UK government’s top scientific and medical advisers warn MPs against easing lockdown too quickly

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    National Health Service
    Boris Johnson faces backlash over ‘pitiful’ NHS pay offer

    UK nurses’ leaders prepare for strike action as government insists 1 per cent rise is all it can afford

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  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    News in-depthUK Budget
    Sunak will be forced to raise UK taxes again, economists warn

    Chancellor’s public spending plans are ‘implausible’, and could be amended in autumn, say experts

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    National Health Service
    Campaigners claim Budget fails to address stretched healthcare

    NHS funding set to fall as emergency Covid-19 support is scaled back

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    UK Budget
    Companies enjoy extra £35bn boost until UK economy recovers

    Flagship coronavirus furlough scheme extended while VAT and business rates are cut

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    UK Budget
    Arts and culture sector handed £408m funding boost

    Museums and theatres welcome grants but many have already cut operations and jobs

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    News in-depthUK Budget
    Chancellor navigates fragile UK public finances

    Small rate increases will cause big jump in borrowing costs due to soaring public debt

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    The Big Read
    UK Budget: the long road to levelling up

    The coronavirus crisis has made it even harder to work out which regions of the country are subsidising others

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
    Tim Pitt
    Broadening welfare in this UK Budget makes good political sense

    Tories should support chancellor Rishi Sunak in building a more generous safety net

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Budget is a clarifying moment for UK Conservatives

    The party must decide what it wants Britain’s future to look like

  • Saturday, 13 February, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    Head of NHS Providers calls for coronavirus spending to be maintained

    Pandemic has created a backlog in surgery, increased demand for mental health services and left many patients with long Covid

  • Saturday, 13 February, 2021
    Chris Hopson
    Here’s how the NHS’s Covid-stressed finances can be addressed

    After the emergency cash runs out, long-term funding demands a major remedy

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    Military medics to work in UK hospitals as Covid admissions soar

    London and Midlands sent 400 MoD staff and 110 being deployed to Northern Ireland to ease NHS pressure

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Transport for London
    Transport for London sets out £15.8bn long-term funding demands

    Capital seeks £3.1bn package for 2021/22, £1.5bn for following year and £1.6bn annually for 2023-30

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    UK local government finance
    Croydon bankruptcy offers cautionary tale for cash-strapped councils

    London borough’s £1.5bn debt plight points to wider crisis in UK local government

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    UK spending on Covid vaccines hits nearly £12bn, watchdog says

    Cost does not cover future multiyear programmes for jabs, National Audit Office says

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    UK politics & policy
    Dominic Cummings awarded 40% pay hike last year

    Prime minister’s former chief adviser saw salary rise despite public sector freeze

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Boris Johnson hints at tax cuts to boost Covid-hit UK business

    PM’s social media session highlights potential tensions to come between No 10 and chancellor over national finances

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