Chancellor gambling on ‘rosy’ recovery forecast to duck the full budget boost the UK economy needs - IPPR
The IPPR think tank has responded the chancellor’s budget statement by welcoming extended support schemes for jobs and businesses but challenging the limited size and scope of the stimulus, and over-optimistic expectations for the UK recovery...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:06
Budget: Crushed hopes for small businesses, say Lib Dems
Christine Jardine MP, Treasury Spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, reacted to the budget...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:56
Education Policy Institute responds to Budget 2021 announcements on education and skills
This afternoon in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out new measures and funding for education and skills, including for apprenticeships and traineeships...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:55
Budget is a positive step towards becoming a ‘scientific superpower’, says NCUB
By introducing the super-deduction, the Chancellor has today taken a positive step forward in prioritising the UK research base, says the National Centre for Universities and Business...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:53
Institute of Economic Affairs: Budget 2021 response
Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Budget 2021, Mark Littlewood, Director General at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:52
Care England: Social Care & The Budget: Sunak Swerves Social Care
Care England, the largest representative body of independent adult social care providers, has expressed disappointment that adult social care did not receive due recognition in the Chancellor’s Budget today...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:51
CPS: Sunak gives economy a short in the arm, but long-term conditions still bleak
Responding to the Chancellor's Budget statement, the Centre for Policy Studies, the leading centre-right think tank, welcomes Rishi Sunak’s plan for a business-led recovery...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:49
Shelter calls the Budget missed opportunity to ‘build back better’
Polly Neate, chief executive Shelter, said: "The pandemic has left far more people on the brink of homelessness than homeownership...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:47
Budget announcement on Universal Credit: Comment from Work and Pensions Committee Chair Stephen Timms MP
Responding to the announcement in the Budget of a six-month extension to the £20 weekly increase in Universal Credit, Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:46
Greenest Budget desperately needed but not delivered, says CPRE
Responding to the 2021 Budget Statement, Crispin Truman, chief executive of CPRE, the countryside charity, said...
Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:44