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  1. Tax measures to encourage economic growth

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    Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.

  2. Supporting local economic growth

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    This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.

  3. Financial services regulation: Adapting to change

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    Our report looks at how the Financial Conduct Authority is responding to changes in its regulatory powers and wider developments in the financial services sector.

  4. Lessons learned: Private finance for infrastructure

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    Spring 2025

    Background In July 2024, the new government’s legislative programme signalled the aim to grow the economy and promote a new partnership with the private sector including using private finance to deliver infrastructure projects. Scope We have reported to successive Parliaments on the value for money of using private finance to deliver infrastructure projects. This study […]

  5. HM Treasury 2023-24

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    HM Treasury is the government’s economic and finance ministry. Its work reaches everyone in the UK and includes public spending and financing, setting the strategy for sustainable economic growth, and strategic oversight of the UK tax system. It plays an important role on the international stage through elements of trade and customs policy, and international […]

  6. Business support schemes

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    This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s management of its business support schemes.

  7. Department for Business and Trade 2022-23

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    This guide has been produced to support the Business and Trade Committee in its examination of DBT’s remit, plans and budget.

  8. Investigation into the East West Rail project (Oxford – Cambridge)

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    Government needs to ensure its growth plans for Cambridge are aligned with its £6-7bn investment in a new regional railway (East West Rail, Oxford to Cambridge), so it can maximise the economic benefits of the line, a new report by the National Audit Office says.

  9. British Business Bank

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    This report examines whether the British Business Bank is improving access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises.

  10. Levelling up funding to local government

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    Government is funding thousands of levelling up projects across the UK. But many of these deadlines are unlikely to be met.

  11. Local Enterprise Partnerships: census findings

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    This publication presents the results of our census of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). The census was conducted as part of our report Local Enterprise Partnerships, published in March 2016.