Articles about ukpublicspending.co.uk’s data

    by Christopher Chantrill

    The articles below provide to researchers background information on the spending data used at ukpublicspending.co.uk.

    Topics covered include data sources, update schedules, projections of future spending.

      Derivation of UK Public Spending for 1900 - 1950 08/02/08

      How We Got the Spending Data for ukpublicspending.co.uk 08/01/08

      Sources for Public Spending Data Series 12/29/08

      UK Government Spending From 1600 to Present 11/18/08

     

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    Budget News

    June Budget: VAT rise and benefits cuts
    Chancellor Osborne's emergency budget of June 22, 2010.

    Millions in the public sector to pay more for pension
    Chancellor says "disparity between public and privates sector pensions... 'unsustainable.'"

    Announcing £6.2billion savings
    Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP on May 24, 2010

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    “We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
    E. G. West, Education and the State