Government spending

Plans for a Scottish ‘National Care Service’ would centralise over £4 billion of spending and may not lead to more consistent services.

On 5 September we will know which of the two is the next Conservative Party leader - and therefore Prime Minister - so their visions for tax and spending matter.

Today's data release confirmed very high government debt payments in June, driven by high inflation and usual seasonal effects.

This talk was given by Paul Johnson at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain conference.

Paul Johnson writes for the Times on the 'difficult decisions' surrounding public sector pay.

In the last decade, there have been significant cuts to spending on adult education and large falls in the numbers of adult learners, particularly amongst those taking low-level qualifications.