The government should use independent Office for Budget Responsibility advice to match planned spending cuts to the strength of the economy, a leading think-tank has said.
The UK's four children's commissioners have urged the government to reassess its spending plans, saying the cuts risk pushing more families into poverty.
Accountants across the world should step out from the sidelines and put pressure on governments to improve the quality of financial reporting, CIPFA chief executive Steve Freer has said.
The government should adopt a 'Plan V' for long-term economic growth, boosting growing industries and sectors such as higher education where the UK has a comparative advantage, a think-tank said...
Chancellor George Osborne should take measures to kick-start growth while maintaining the government's deficit reduction plan when he makes his Autumn Statement later this month, according to the CBI.
There is a 50% chance of the UK falling back into recession in 2011/12 even if the eurozone crisis is successfully resolved, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned today.
The UK government has dismissed a Scottish National Party claim that an independent Scotland could be the world’s sixth richest nation if it had control of North Sea oil and gas revenues
Unemployment in the UK has hit a 17-year high, with more than 2.5 million people now out of work, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
Weak economic growth means public sector job cuts should be delayed, if necessary beyond the next general election, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has warned.
David Cameron has called for Britain not to be ‘paralysed by gloom and fear’ about the economy, promising that the government’s austerity plan will work.
