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    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      High Speed Two Ltd
      HS2 delay will increase costs, warns UK spending watchdog

      Rail line’s price tag has soared from £33bn a decade ago to as much as £100bn

    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      State pension
      Delay to UK state pension age rise risks costing £60bn, says think-tank

      Institute for Fiscal Studies points to ‘significant long-term challenges from ageing population’

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      UK government lifts ban on official contracts for Bain

      Global management consultancy had been barred in August due to its role in a South Africa corruption scandal

    • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
      Gus O'Donnell
      Charities will repay more policy attention, not just better funding

      We badly need to overcome the barriers between government, philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Pay deal for NHS workers in England paves way to end strikes

      Trade unions representing nurses and other staff agree to recommend offer to members

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Paul Johnson
      The UK chancellor is caught in a dilemma, as his Budget shows

      Continuing to muddle through, massage the figures and implement bad policies will only make the problems worse

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A step in the right direction on UK growth

      Jeremy Hunt’s Budget will boost investment and the workforce, but the outlook remains subdued

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      Luck has given Jeremy Hunt some room for manoeuvre

      Severe structural weaknesses persist in the UK economy and his measures do too little to remove them

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      MPs demand details of Treasury ban on Gove’s Whitehall department spending

      House of Commons levelling-up committee requests explanation for doubts over ministry’s ability to deliver

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Chancellor to offer nearly £1bn for new UK low-tax zones

      Treasury wants plan to drive economic growth but measures mark a striking scaling down of former PM’s vision

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      ExplainerUK Budget
      Five things to look out for in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget

      Chancellor expected to take steps to nurture economic growth as well as address cost of living crisis

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The UK chancellor’s fiscal conundrum

      Jeremy Hunt’s Budget must boost growth amid tight finances and political pressures

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Duncan Weldon
      Making UK fiscal policy dull again is only storing up trouble

      Jeremy Hunt’s determination to exorcise ghosts means Britain’s long-term problems will continue to go unaddressed

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Quarter of funds for UK levelling-up projects goes unspent

      Unused cash relates mostly to capital spending on housing or housing-related projects

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Inflation hits UK government pledge to build 40 new hospitals

      Officials debate which projects to freeze with NHS capital budget now facing a £2bn shortfall

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      Hunt to use Budget to help UK households with energy bills

      Chancellor will not have room for big giveaways on March 15 because of new forecasts of weak economic outlook

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Drug prices
      UK says drugmakers’ call for fixed-rate medicines tax ‘unaffordable’

      Health department says industry’s plan, published ahead of talks, would limit access to new medicines

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK employment
      UK council workers’ pay offer adds to pressure on ministers

      About 1.5mn low-paid local government employees offered wage uplift worth more than 20% over two years

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK public services
      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

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Sunak weighs 5% public-sector pay offer to end waves of strikes

      Treasury receives unexpected £30bn boost to public finances and foresees ‘low risk’ of settlement setting benchmark

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The great British business investment problem

      UK plc needs a bold long-term plan to support capital spending

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Chris Cook
      UK business needs to get the next wave of outsourcing right

      Ask not what your country can do for you but what your company can do for the country

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      UK defence secretary braced for ‘uphill battle’ with Treasury on military spend

      Ben Wallace to argue for extra funding ‘because the world is much more dangerous and unstable’

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Sunak explores public sector pay deal that backdates wage offer

      Prime minister seeks ways to end worst wave of strikes to hit UK in decades

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Labour presses ministers on local projects delayed by spending ban

      Levelling up department barred from signing off capital expenditure without Treasury approval

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