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On 28 March, Fitch Ratings downgraded the UK's government debt rating from AA to AA−, because of coronavirus borrowing, economic decline, and lingering uncertainty over Brexit. The ratings agency believed the UK's government deficit for 2020 might equal 9% of gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 2% the previous year. [87]
“While the public sector net borrowing figure was much higher than the £14.1 billion consensus estimate, the UK 10-year gilt yield was unchanged at 4.594 per cent which implies the bond market ...
Borrowing between March and December 2024 stands at £129.9bn, which is £8.9bn more than for the same period a year earlier. The total amount the government owes is called the national debt.
Borrowing in the financial year so far is £129.9 billion, £8.9 billion more than the same period a year earlier and the second-highest financial year-to-December borrowing since monthly records ...
The UK government intensified its efforts to respond to the cost-of-living crisis in May 2022, with a £5 billion windfall tax on energy companies to help fund a £15 billion support package for the public. The package included every household getting a £400 discount on energy bills, which would be in addition to a £150 council tax refund the ...
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was a furlough scheme announced by Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 20 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. [1] The scheme was announced as providing grants to employers to pay 80% of a staff wage and employment costs each month, up to a total of £2,500 per ...
The latest government statistics showed that gross domestic product was stagnant in the three months through September, after growing 0.7% in the first quarter and 0.4% in the second.
The benefit cap, introduced via the Welfare Reform Act 2012, set a maximum level for the amount of state welfare benefits that could be paid to an individual household in any one year. The measure came into effect in 2013 with the figure initially set at £26,000 per year, close to the average income of a family in the UK at that time.