The Office for Budget Responsibility has produced a major report on Universal Credit, saying "the monitoring and forecasting architecture for UC is less than ideal."
New analysis by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies provides a comprehensive assessment of the UK's public finances and the options available to the Chancellor in his November Budget. It shows a defining choice: maintain commitment to a public finance surplus or respond to growing demands for increased public spending.
New public sector finance figures published on 21 October by the Office for National Statistics, show that public spending cuts are a failed strategy for reducing the deficit, says the Trades Union Congress.