Chart of the week: UK registered businesses
Our chart this week looks at the 1.5% drop in the number of VAT- and PAYE-registered businesses in the year to 31 March 2023.
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Join the Public Sector CommunityOur chart this week looks at the 1.5% drop in the number of VAT- and PAYE-registered businesses in the year to 31 March 2023.
Focus must shift to prevention, PAC warns, after the body responsible for overseeing government expenditure calls for action to tackle currently untracked fraud and error losses of potentially tens of billions of pounds a year.
The Home Office spent £24.5bn in 2022/23 according to its recently published annual financial report, funded by £5.4bn in income and £19.2bn in net parliamentary funding.
Deficit marginally better than had been expected according to the latest figures from the ONS, but costly public sector problems emerge.
Our chart of the week looks at how the prevalence of smoking in the UK population has continued to decline over the past decade.
Parish, village and town councils urgently need internal auditors to ensure they are held accountable, transparent and independently verified.
Birmingham City Council issues Section 114 notice due to £87m budget gap and significant equal pay liability, halting non-statutory spending.
This week’s chart takes a look at recent revisions to GDP that have caused some consternation in the world of statistics.