By Andrew Sentance, Senior Economic Adviser, PwC Public spending is under pressure. Across the western world, and especially in Europe, governments are struggling to contain high levels of public spending and borrowing. According to the OECD, the UK government spent 49% of GDP in 2012, and across the euro area...
By Scott Bailey, Partner, PwC With June's Spending Review likely to usher in another round of cuts, organisations across the public sector are under intense pressure to make savings while continuing to deliver good outcomes for people. Removing complexity can be key to both improving efficiency and delivering better outcomes,...
By Andy Ford, Partner, PwC There’s no getting away from it. By 2018, local government will look very different from today, with some predicting as much as a 50% cut in council budgets since the last spending review. With the next round of spending cuts looming, local government has a...
Our research over the last two years on good growth has shown that the UK public believes there is a wider scorecard of factors beyond GDP which can be used to measure economic wellbeing, whether at national, regional and/or city levels (see this previous post). But what’s the view of...
Stewart Wilson & Tim Hoban Demand management, we all know, is a huge agenda right now. Typically we find one of the key levers local authorities want to discuss is how to drive people to use services differently to reduce and manage demand. Councils are recognising the era of digital...
By Nick Jones, Global Director of PwC’s Public Sector Research Centre Growth, and how to deliver it, is dominating attention in the run-up to this year’s Budget. And with good reason as the economy struggles to take off and commentators look for the tipping point where business and consumer confidence...
By Paul Cleal, Partner and PwC Government and Public Sector Leader Over the last two years, we've been working with Demos on what Good Growth means and discussed our latest report on Good Growth for Cities at a round table with Greg Clark MP, the Minister for Cities and Financial...
By Ray Mills, Infrastructure and Government Lead Partner After five years of economic turbulence, the clamour for growth is increasing daily. There are many prescriptions put forward to turn around the economy but while these debates rage on, the nature and definition of growth is generally taken for granted –...
By Esmond Birnie, Chief Economist in Northern Ireland When we refer to “the economy”, we tend to focus on the UK as the sum of everything that comprises the national economy. So, if we say that growth in 2013 will be around 1.1%, we’re not talking about a specific region,...
By Andy Ford, Partner, PwC Local government doesn’t seem to get much good news these days - a challenging financial settlement, diminishing support from central government, further spending cuts ahead, and even blame for the horsemeat scandal. We’ve been working with the New Local Government Network (NLGN) to try and...
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