Early estimates for May 2024 indicate that the number of payrolled employees rose by 0.6% compared with May 2023, a rise of 167,000 employees. This annual increase was largest in the health and social work sector, a rise of 155,000 employees.
Amid all the sound and fury, photocalls and mishaps of the general election campaign, it is easy to forget that administering the vote is a vast logistical exercise. More than 40,000 polling stations need to be found and set up, staff need to be recruited and paid to work on polling day, ballot papers need to be printed and distributed, electoral registers finalised, and election counts organised.
Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have shown no growth in April 2024, following growth of 0.4% in March 2024. Real gross domestic product is estimated to have grown by 0.7% in the three months to April 2024 compared with the three months to January 2024.
Monthly construction output is estimated to have decreased by 1.4% in volume terms in April 2024, with the monthly value in level terms at £14,940 million. The fall in monthly output came from decreases in both new work (1.9% fall), and repair and maintenance (0.8% fall); anecdotal evidence from survey returns suggests effects of heavy rainfall and strong winds affected output in April.
Many of the overseas people who have registered to vote may ot pay tax here. The conservatives brought in new rules to allow them to vote.
Early seasonally adjusted estimates for May 2024 from HMRC Pay As You Earn Real Time Information indicate that there were 2.46 million payrolled employees in Scotland, a rise of 0.5 per cent (12,000) compared with May 2023. This compares with the UK where the number of payrolled employees rose by 0.6 per cent over the same period.
What has been the impact of universal credit on incomes and work incentives?. What challenges remain for the next government? A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
An assessment of the tax rises and spending increases proposed in the 2024 Liberal Democrat general election manifesto. Paul Johnson, IFS Director, said, "The Liberal Democrats want to top up existing spending plans so that the state remains at around its current size, relative to national income - and hence considerably bigger than it was pre-pandemic.
It's manifesto week, and we’ll be coming to you with plenty of analysis of the promises, pledges and numbers. In this episode, we’ll dive into some work looking at the how the size and shape of the state have changed over recent decades, and how the tax system has changed since 2010.
The Conservative Party has pledged to introduce a new Help to Buy equity loan scheme if it wins power. Help to Buy Equity Loan was in place in England - in one form or another - between 2013 and 2023.
An assessment of the tax cuts and spending changes proposed in the 2024 Conservative party general election manifesto by Institute for Fiscal Studies. Paul Johnson, IFS Director, said, "The Conservatives have promised some £17 billion per year of tax cuts, and a big hike in defence spending.
Yougov polling has asked he question. Not many will be surprised who has come out on top after recent activities.
Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Director writes "Whichever of the main parties forms the next government, it will need to cut spending or raise taxes or it will miss its own fiscal targets." This isn't another column about how the next government won't have any money. If you haven't gathered that by now, there’s probably little value in repeating it.
An assessment of tax policy changes and the policymaking process from 2010 to 2024. This report gives a high-level overview of tax policy across the period 2010 to 2024.
The BBC has polling tracker ruing showing the results of all the polls being conducted. All of the polls show Labour is winning by a strong margin.
The latest quarterly Scottish Government Workforce Information statistics have been published today by Scotland's Chief Statistician. These statistics cover the numbers of workers, staff sickness rates, and the diversity of staff up to the most recent quarter ending March 2024.
One of the few success stories of the Conservative government is the fall in inflation, which is now close to the target rate set by the Bank of England. In April 2024, the consumer price index, the most common measure of inflation, increased by 3% over the previous year compared with a 9.6% annual increase in October 2022.
The deadline to apply for a postal vote in the Parliamentary general election is 5pm on Wednesday 19 June. You must also be registered to vote by 11:59pm on Tuesday 18 June.
The UK's middle-of-the-pack record on economic growth since 2010 has been flattered by the population growing by six million people. But Britain will need to turnaround its dire productivity record and leverage its services strengths if it wants raise growth and boost living standards in the 2020s, according to new research published on Sunday 9 June 2024 by the Resolution Foundation.
A report by the Instituee for Fiscal Studies. It describe how the size and shape of the state have changed since the mid 1950s and over the 2019-24 parliament, and discuss the future outlook.
