What changes next, and what it costs
Greater Manchester, Cardiff and Leeds gained the most staff, while the share of senior civil servants based outside London reached 36.6% against a 2030 target of half.
Output still grew 0.3% over the three months to August and was 1.3% higher than a year earlier, with services growing while production and construction contracted.
Public Health Scotland figures to 30 September show 588,864 people on at least one outpatient, inpatient or day case list, with the longest waits shrinking and 61.3% of new outpatients seen within 12 weeks.
The final report on the first £1.085bn of Bus Service Improvement Plan money says the schemes finished by March 2025 are likely to be medium to high value for money, but passengers grew less happy with the cost of travel after the fare cap rose to £3.
The Ministry of Defence's annual regional breakdown shows spending per person ranging from £70 in the North East to £1,130 in the South West.
New supply fell 8% in a year, while councils let 14% fewer homes and the number of empty council properties rose, according to the Scottish Government's annual housing statistics.
The London-listed bank now expects operating income to grow faster than its previous 5% to 7% range, helped by a third consecutive record quarter in its wealth business.
The insolvency firm formerly called Begbies Traynor counted more stretched companies than at any point since 2004, though the number close to collapse fell by a fifth.
Eight boiler units of about 800 tonnes each will be taken out of the closed Kent nuclear station, clearing roughly a third of its above-ground structures.
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From February 2030 the UK's oldest inflation measure will be calculated using the methods behind CPIH. The change is technical, but it will alter payments on pensions, gilts and student loans for years.
The Retail Prices Index has measured the cost of living in the UK since 1947. It is no longer the government's preferred measure of inflation, yet it is still written into contracts, pension rules and government bonds worth hundreds of billions of pounds. In 2030 the…
A Spending Review decides how much each department can spend on day-to-day services and on investment, often for three years or more. Here is how the money is divided and what it leaves out.
A Budget is mostly about tax. The question of how much each government department gets to spend is settled in a different process, the Spending Review. Its decisions can run for several years, which means the funding for schools, hospitals, courts and roads in a given…
Output still grew 0.3% over the three months to August and was 1.3% higher than a year earlier, with services growing while production and construction contracted.
Anthony Reeves will lead a new National Armaments Innovation area covering about 4,800 scientists and specialists across four defence bodies.
The banking group kept its 2026 targets, and its base-case economic scenario assumes Bank Rate goes up to 4% before the end of the year.
Bank of England figures for September show the rate on new mortgages edging up to 4.63% and households putting £5bn into ISAs.
A government letter to councils in England sets out next year's rates in the pound, a two-year real-terms freeze for shops, pubs and leisure venues, and higher relief thresholds.
Greater Manchester, Cardiff and Leeds gained the most staff, while the share of senior civil servants based outside London reached 36.6% against a 2030 target of half.
The government has accepted the Low Pay Commission's recommendations in full, with every minimum wage band going up by 3.9%.
Public Health Scotland figures to 30 September show 588,864 people on at least one outpatient, inpatient or day case list, with the longest waits shrinking and 61.3% of new outpatients seen within 12 weeks.
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