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  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    News in-depthUK public finances
    Why the inflation boost to UK public finances is unlikely to last

    Chancellor will face hard choices as rising debt interest payments, falling wages and pressure on services bite

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    UK explores 5% pay rises for public sector workers

    Ministers examine more generous deals because of concern about strikes

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    UK public services
    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

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    John Burn-Murdoch
    How to fix Britain’s chronically ill healthcare system

    The NHS needs long-term investment to build capacity and a shift in the balance away from hospital treatment

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    Boost to benefits is right way to help the cost of living crisis

    The Treasury may resist but Conservative MPs are increasing their demands to restore the uplift to universal credit

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Civil Service UK
    Johnson sets out plans to cut up to 90,000 civil servants

    PM tells cabinet ministers to reduce departmental staffing levels in push to lower government spending

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    US politics & policy
    White House makes last push to save some of Build Back Better bill

    Lawmakers drop spending commitments and focus on deficit reduction to win over centrists

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    UK launches fraud squad to hunt down lost Covid billions

    Treasury to spend £25mn on new task force of data experts and investigators to be set up by summer

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Living with Covid still has a cost

    UK government should recognise the burden of the virus on healthcare, business and schools

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    Brexit
    UK fund fails to match EU development money, say Scotland and Wales

    Government accused of leaving devolved nations with ‘less say, over less money’ after announcing £2.6bn post-Brexit scheme

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    UK inflation
    UK civil servants face real terms pay cut in 2022-23 as living costs soar

    Government guidance for below-inflation pay rise will leave many public sector workers worse off

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Billions still at risk from Covid PPE contracts, says UK spending watchdog

    Fraud and error set to account for 0.5-5% of government spending on health equipment during pandemic

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    National Health Service
    Public satisfaction with the NHS falls to 25-year low across Britain

    Dissatisfaction rises during the pandemic driven by concerns over waiting times, staff shortages and lack of funding

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    London shouldn’t be levelled down as the UK is levelled up

    The capital’s new railway highlights woes elsewhere and is a provocation to some

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    UK watchdog criticises ‘inadequate’ paper trail on Randox contracts

    NAO finds no evidence of impropriety in Covid testing deals but health department documentation was lacking

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    Sunak told to show government on side of struggling Britons

    Johnson wants Spring Statement to cushion hit from cost-of-living crisis, prompting expectation of tax cuts

  • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    Sunak resists rise in defence spending despite war in Ukraine

    Chancellor warns ministers that days of higher UK public spending are over

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Ehsan Khandouzi
    Iran’s finance minister: we need to change the course of our fiscal policy

    The current negotiations in Vienna could lead to positive economic outcomes for our country

  • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Whitehall ‘lacks plan’ to turn extra NHS funding into better care, MPs warn

    Spending committee criticises health department for overseeing ‘years of decline’ on treatment waiting lists

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    Sunak needs £10bn to avoid public sector pay squeeze, says IFS

    Rising inflation is eroding departmental budgets and worsening the cost-of-living crisis

  • 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

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    News in-depth
    Rishi Sunak feels the heat as economic effect of Ukraine war hits UK

    Chancellor is under increasing pressure to alleviate cost of living crisis and boost defence budget

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    Transport for London
    London’s transport network given temporary funding settlement

    Ministers grant TfL additional £200mn as post-pandemic passenger numbers remain low

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    UK to lose at least £15bn on Covid support due to fraud and error, MPs warn

    Public accounts committee says taxpayers have been exposed to ‘substantial, long-term financial risks’

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Boris Johnson announces end of Covid legal restrictions in England

    Rule changes come as ministers clash over cost of future coronavirus testing

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