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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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