Archive: Spending Review

Labour: We need urgent action now to help economy

Chuka Umunna Labour's shadow business secretary responds to Vince Cable's admissions that the economy is performing poorly:

Labour: Regional growth fund money doesn't amount to much

Labour: Action on executive pay falls short

Fixing the economy is Labour's 'national mission'

Cable: Economy is worse now than it was one year ago

Vince Cable assesses the impact of the spending review one year on:

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Alexander: Decisions were absolutely right thing for our country

Chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander assesses the impact of the spending review one year on:

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As-it-happened: Chancellor vs Treasury committee

George Osborne faces MPs on the Commons' Treasury committee

George Osborne is spending his Thursday morning giving evidence to the Commons' Treasury committee on the comprehensive spending review.

Osborne: I'll lose my child benefit too

The next Budget will be on March 23rd, the chancellor confirmed

George Osborne has defended himself against criticism of his spending cuts by insisting he will be just as affected as a normal member of the public.

Frontline services could be 'main victim' of savings drive

Whitehall departments haven't been capable of making efficiency savings say the committee

Frontline services will bear more of the brunt of cuts than previously thought, because government departments are incapable of making the savings asked of them, a committee has warned.

Hostile reception for Danny Alexander

Chief secretary Danny Alexander has endured a two-hour grilling from MPs on the Commons' Treasury committee.

Spending review: Working families 'will be hit hardest'

The cuts will impact on working households more than the unemployed, the TUC claims

Working families stand to lose out far more than those which are unemployed from the impact of the spending review, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has claimed.

Revealed: Full extent of housing benefit cuts impact

Only green areas will remain affordable by 2016

Tens of thousands of householders could be forced from the centre of London as a result of planned housing benefit changes.

Analysis: Does 'cleansing' fit the bill?

Labour has warned poorest will suffer from housing benefit cut

Labour's 'cleansing' rhetoric may be controversial, but it is certainly powerful. Does it really stack up?

Govt unclear over social rent 'lottery'

Questions still unanswered for social housing

Housing experts are struggling to pin the government down over its plans to hike social housing rents to 80% of market value.

Austerity, what austerity? Executive pay jumps by 55%

As Britain prepares for austerity, it appears CEOs have not heeded the chancellor's suggestion that 'we are all in this together'

As the country prepares to endure tough spending cuts, a report today confirmed a 55% jump in pay for FTSE 100 executives in the past year.

UK 'never on the brink of bankruptcy'

Lord Turnbull's statements contradict the chancellor's justification of the spending review

The UK was never likely to fall into a crisis as severe as Greece's, the former Cabinet secretary has insisted.

Cabinet boosted by UK economic growth

UK GDP's third quarter figures were expected to show fall to 0.4%

Britain's economy grew by 0.8%, latest figures show, in a significant improvement on analysts' predictions.

Public opinion shifting against cuts

The public remains unsure about the age of austerity

Two polls have shown a distinct rise in public opposition to spending cuts, although the political ramifications remain unclear.

Feature: What the business world is thinking

Voices from British business give their view on the coalition's economic policies

David Cameron and Ed Miliband's struggle for the hearts of business figures at the CBI conference in London proved something of a one-sided affair.

Analysis: Optimism and pessimism at the CBI

Cameron takes on Miliband to win CBI support

The political climate is not well-suited for either David Cameron or Ed Miliband to win over British businesses. Yet one's willingness to lay out and defend his economic plans may have trumped the warnings of the other.

Spending review: Anger and conscience

The coalition government is vulnerable to public anger over the spending review

The political aftershocks of the spending review continue to dominate the British political landscape today, as politicians and activists struggle to come to terms with its repercussions.

TUC plans 'biggest' demonstration against cuts

Barber: 'The sternest test in a generation'

The TUC is planning its largest ever demonstration next March to fight the government's deficit reduction plan.

Clegg faces IFS 'trashing' backlash

Nick Clegg accused the IFS of distorting figures

Nick Clegg faces criticism after attacking the Institute for Fiscal Studies' (IFS) assessment of the spending review as "complete nonsense".

Britain can survive the cuts - CBI

The spending review will not cause the UK economy to fall back into recession, the outgoing head of the Confederation of British Industry has claimed.

Lib Dem poll misery deepens

Things look black - 'Cleggmania' must seem a very long time ago

One of the first polls conducted since the spending review sees the Liberal Democrats suffering their lowest ever rating by pollsters YouGov.

Murdoch backs coalition's cuts

Rupert Murdoch's papers backed the Tories before the election

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has given the coalition government's spending cuts plans his firm support, warning them they must "stay the political course" to remain popular.