Byline: Kelly Macnamara
This paper contributes to new thinking in economics by employing a human rights perspective to examine the budget deficit reduction strategy of the UK coalition government, as set out in 2010 in the June budget and October Spending Review. Focusing on economic and social rights, the paper ...
UK posts first July budget deficit since 2010.The article presents data from the Office for National Statistics on budget deficit in Great Britain in July 2013. It reveals that net borrowing, which excludes the impacts of the transfer from the asset purchase facility fund of the Bank of ...
whenTony Blairhad led hisLabour Partyto its third successive majority. In 2010, however, Blair was not a candidate, having turned over the reins of government toGordon Brown, his longtime chancellor of the Exchequer. Sagging poll numbers for Labour and a resurgentConservative Partyunder the youthf...
This paper explains how the UK government sets its annual budgets within the context of multi-year spending reviews, yet was able to announce policies in the 2011 annual budget that sat outside the 2010 spending review framework. As such, it illustrates that the budget process remains an ...
Japan stocks rise as government reportedly set to propose record budget The British pound fell 1% against the U.S. dollar during afternoon trade shortly after U.K. Finance Minister Jeremy Huntunveiled the government's fiscal plan. Sterling was last seen trad...
Government revenue as a percentage of GDP in the UK 1900-2030 National debt as a percentage of GDP in the UK 1900-2030 Government borrowing as a percentage of GDP in the UK 1900-2030 Fiscal headroom forecasts in the UK 2010-2024
Kent, who has championed the inquiry, listed the scrapping of the Audit Commission, the public body that oversaw local government accounting until 2015, the failure of external auditors to hold local authorities to account since, and a sharp decline in central funding since 2010 among systemic ...
Reducing the UK deficit further from existing levels is sensible but should not be pursued regardless of wider costs. The writer is executive chairman of the Education Policy Institute and was a minister in the 2010-2015 UK coalition government...
Sorry, but it’s time to start caring about Local Government Pension Schemes And we have the charts to prove it July 31 2024 UK housebuilding Ministers push for more housing in northern England and Tory shires Councils will not be able to reject developments on grounds of being ‘out of ch...