Tax measures to encourage economic growth
Published on:Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.
Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.
This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.
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.
Our study will examine whether DBT is well-positioned to secure impact from its support for priority industry sectors.
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 […]
This report examines whether government has an effective approach to enhancing workforce skills.
This report examines Department for International Trade (DIT) and UK Export Finance (UKEF) progress and performance in supporting UK exports.
This report examines whether the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is likely to deliver value for money.
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 […]
This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s management of its business support schemes.
This report sets out the process by which MHCLG chose the 101 towns in England it invited to develop Town Deals.
This report examines MHCLG’s addressing of recommendations relating to the governance, transparency and value for money of Local Enterprise Partnerships.
This guide has been produced to support the Business and Trade Committee in its examination of DBT’s remit, plans and budget.
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.
This report examines whether the British Business Bank is improving access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Our report examined how projects achieve value to see what lessons there are for other projects. By value, we mean the difference projects make to citizens, service users or the environment.
This guide has been produced to support the Levelling up, Housing & Communities Committee in its examination of the Department for Levelling up, Housing & Communities’ (DLUHC’s) spending and performance for 2021-22.
There are risks to the long-term effectiveness of a new policy to make sure developers protect or improve biodiversity
Government is funding thousands of levelling up projects across the UK. But many of these deadlines are unlikely to be met.
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.