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Public services policy

August 2024

  • A pair of hands on a laptop keyboard

    We need to make data sharing across UK government the rule, not the exception

    Robert Chote
  • Commuters cross London Bridge on their way to work at the City of London on 12 August. The Bank of England is looking at labour market data to determine the strength of inflationary forces lingering in the economy.

    ‘Share government data to boost economy’, says UK statistics watchdog chief

  • A male patient sitting getting his blood pressure taken by a female doctor

    Labour must raise GP funding to end ‘8am scramble’, says doctors’ group

  • A woman looking at floral tributes left outside the University of Nottingham

    Does England’s Mental Health Act need reform in light of CQC review?

  • Tories accuse Starmer of losing control of public sector pay with strike deals

  • GPs have been forced to take industrial action

  • Challenges to deprivation of liberty orders in England soar by a third

  • Labour is still in its ‘phoney’ period. Far tougher tests await in autumn

    Martin Kettle

  • English hospitals brace for ‘alarming’ disruption as GPs take industrial action

30 July 2024

  • Angela Rayner announcing housing reforms in parliament.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

    Rayner says housing target system will raise number of homes planned to 370,000 and confirmed targets will be mandatory

29 July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  • Jonathan Portes

    Rachel Reeves is pulling off a transparent political manoeuvre. But she’s not entirely wrong

    Jonathan Portes
  • The chancellor has unveiled plans to scrap winter fuel payments as part of sweeping changes she said were needed to fill a £22bn spending shortfall

    UK public finances show £22bn fiscal hole, says Rachel Reeves - video

  • Rachel Reeves making a statement in the House of Commons

    Reeves scraps social care cap and some winter fuel payments to plug ‘£22bn hole’

28 July 2024

  • Steve Reed speaking with presenter Victoria Derbyshire in the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg current affairs programme

    Tories ‘deliberately covered up’ true state of public finances, says minister

  • Rachel Reeves poses outside the door to 11 Downing Street.

    The Observer view: sticking to fiscal rule will imperil Labour’s future

26 July 2024

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves

    Millions of UK public sector workers set for above-inflation pay rise

    Rachel Reeves is expected to accept pay review body recommendations in move that could cost up to £10bn
  • She looks at him but he looks down at the ground

    Eight charts that lay bare Labour’s spending inheritance from Tories

    Rachel Reeves will next week highlight figures showing a tougher picture than Osborne received in 2010
  • People working at an NHS hospital

    Patients cannot trust CQC’s hospital safety ratings, says Wes Streeting

    Health secretary’s comments follow damning findings of interim report into state of English healthcare regulator

25 July 2024

  • A health worker walks between curtains on an NHS hospital ward

    Cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could hit £86bn by 2050

    Study predicts overall economic cost of cancer, heart disease, dementia and stroke will rise by 61%
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