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The Treasury

Pre-Budget Report 2004

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After each Autumn Statement, Budget and Spending Review, we publish analysis of the Chancellor's proposals and reforms.

2 December 2004

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Golden Rule

Comment

This article was published in The Public Finance Magazine on 23rd November 2004.

23 November 2004

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Has Labour made work pay?

Report

A review of the Labour Government's success in improving the financial reward to work for low-income families.

17 November 2004

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Our deficit has got nothing on America's

Comment

They'd been over-optimistic about the public finances for three Budgets running, but Treasury officials were quietly confident in March that this time they would be right.

7 November 2004

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What the IMF boss needs to do

Comment

This weekend representatives of the International Monetary Fund's 184 member countries gather in Washington for its annual meeting.

1 October 2004

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Higher education funding

Journal article

Many readers are no doubt currently deciding whether or not to attend higher education.

1 September 2004

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Economic agenda: Four questions Brown must answer

Comment

Like the discovery that Britain's railways are as vulnerable to the sun as to wet leaves or the wrong sort of snow, reports that Gordon Brown has warned Cabinet ministers to expect tough public spending negotiations should hardly come as a surprise.

10 August 2004

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Savings promise must deliver this time

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The government has repeatedly promised to cur public sector administration costs and halt the rise in civil service jobs, yet both have risen year after year.

13 July 2004

The Treasury

Spending Review 2004

Collection
After each Autumn Statement, Budget and Spending Review, we publish analysis of the Chancellor's proposals and reforms.

12 July 2004