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Economic update: What to expect in 2026?
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- 01 Jan 2026
Following a difficult end to 2025, the UK’s economic performance is likely to weaken further, despite lower inflation and falling interest rates. Suren Thiru, ICAEW’s Director, Economies, outlines what to expect in the year ahead.
Public finances on track to reach OBR’s revised full year forecast
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- 19 Dec 2025
The public finance budget overrun was £16bn in the eight months to November 2025 and is expected to reach £20bn by the end of March 2026.
Chart of the week: Inflation
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- 19 Dec 2025
The Bank of England’s Christmas present to the nation of a cut in interest rates prompts our chart of the week to take a look at what is going under the hood of inflation.
Chart of the week: Net migration
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- 12 Dec 2025
Our chart this week illustrates the fall, rise and fall again of net inward migration over the past eight years and asks whether it will bounce back to hit the OBR’s long-term assumption by the end of the decade.
Chart of the week: Budget 2025 debt blues
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- 05 Dec 2025
Our chart this week illustrates how despite being a “tax-raising Budget”, the cumulative net effect of all the changes announced last week is to add £61bn to the public sector net debt forecast for 31 March 2030.
NAO: Climate reporting has honed public bodies’ risk radar
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- 01 Dec 2025
In the course of preparing for mandatory climate disclosures, central government bodies have improved their risk-management procedures and other operations, says report.
Economy explainers: what is the public balance sheet?
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- 28 Nov 2025
What is the 'public balance sheet' and what does it mean for people and businesses? ICAEW experts offer this simple guide on the public balance sheet – the government’s assets and liabilities – why they matter and the future outlook.
Economy explainers: public finances and spending
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- 28 Nov 2025
What are the public finances and how do they affect people and businesses? ICAEW experts offer this simple guide on how the government raises money and how it spends it, as well as the future outlook.
Economy explainers: what is the deficit?
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- 28 Nov 2025
Journalists and politicians talk a lot about ‘the deficit’. But what is it and how does it affect people and businesses? ICAEW experts offer this simple guide on the deficit, why it matters, and the future outlook.
Chart of the week: Autumn Budget 2025
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- 27 Nov 2025
Our chart this week looks at how the Chancellor used tax rises to refill and increase her budget headroom after forecast revisions and spending increases eliminated the projected current budget surplus for 2029/30.
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