As we look at the economy this month, here in the UK there is little cheer. With a succession of adverse statistics in recent weeks doing little to dispel the feeling that the government’s efforts to promote and then deliver the growth that is desperately needed to repair the public finances, have yet to bear any tangible fruit. The initial
A flexible, high skill and plentiful UK labour market is central to the government’s ambitions to grow the economy through investment and increased productivity. Unfortunately, any discussion of the current state of the UK labour market is almost entirely anecdotal, a regrettable situation at such a crucial time but one made inevitable by the shortcomings of the only comprehensive set
The June 2025 Spending Review sets out ambitious plans for economic recovery and long-term growth with a strong emphasis on digital transformation and modernising labour force skills. How should UK businesses react and how could it affect them? Impact on sectors and skills Overall, government day-to-day spending will increase by 1.7% per year, while capital investment will grow by 3.6%
A month on from our last look at the UK economy and its prospects, our economic review for June 2025 has yet more evidence of just how volatile the global and domestic conditions are. A blizzard of bilateral trade deals involving Britain and variously, India, the USA and the EU have been announced, if not necessarily worked out in any
The announcement of the economic prosperity deal between the USA and the UK has generated much political and media ballyhoo. Despite the euphoria, cooler heads in many UK manufacturing sub-sectors are discounting the comments from the two countries’ leaders and their senior advisers, and instead they are scouring the detail-lite four and a half page deal document for anything tangible
Let’s start with a question: Was fraud prevention ever just a finance function? After 27 years working in fraud prevention across the private, public, and third sectors, I can confidently say the answer is no. Throughout my career, I’ve seen fraud fall under the remit of Audit, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Governance, Security, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and, yes,
