Blog posts tagged "Public spending"

August 31, 2010 11:52 am 1 Comment

Gary Gibbon blogs on how challenging the coalition government's public spending round is likely to be, with particular pressure on defence, pensions, business, schools and health.

July 5, 2010 12:10 pm 11 Comments

Public sector redundancy changes and pension changes have a disproportionate impact on women workers.

April 27, 2010 12:17 pm 16 Comments

According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, we don't know 87 per cent of the cuts Labour would have to make if they stuck to their election promises, 82 per cent of the Tory cuts that would come your way, 74 per cent of the cuts the Lib Dems would have to make.

February 1, 2010 5:15 pm No Comments

The Treasury's in-house assessment of how "fiscal consolidations" have worked in other countries has been revealed after a freedom of information request.

September 30, 2009 7:12 pm No Comments

Brown's promises to protect rises in the minimum wage, rises in child tax credits, hospitals, schools and police numbers would mean big squeezes elsewhere.

September 21, 2009 12:35 pm No Comments

Although the Lib Dems have been lecturing everyone for years on the iniquities of property taxes, activists are pleased by the party's new plan to tax those with expensive properties.

September 20, 2009 4:16 pm No Comments

Schools Secretary Ed Balls won't call his planned £2bn "savings" in education budget "cuts" as he is still holding out for real-terms growth in his budget.

September 19, 2009 7:50 pm No Comments

The first party conference of the era of cuts and the top story is, you guessed it, cuts. Nick Clegg promises to be “savage” about cuts and drops a heavy hint that the biggest internal cut will have to be the party’s commitment to the abolition of tuition fees.

September 15, 2009 3:24 pm No Comments

Brown speaks of 'cuts' at the TUC; a small demo greets the opening of the Prime Minister's speech.

12:57 pm No Comments

Gordon Brown prepares to talk about "cuts" in his speech to the TUC Conference - but will the unions bay for blood?