Financial Indicators: Data from FTSE100, as well as oil prices and gold prices.
Documents to download
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Effect of the Autumn Statement Measures on Women (123 KB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015: a Summary (299 KB, PDF) (299 KB, PDF)
- Women and the Economy (208 KB, PDF) (208 KB, PDF)
The Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 was published on 25 November 2015. It set out departmental spending totals for each year from 2015/16 to 2019/20. It also made several other policy announcements including:
- Reversing the changes to tax credit taper rates and thresholds that had been announced in the Summer Budget
- Introducing an apprenticeship levy for businesses with a payroll of over £3 million, from July 2017
- Various housing initiatives, including 400,000 new affordable housing starts by 2020
Attached to this page is the Library’s Summary of the Outcome of the Spending Review/Autumn Statement 2015, and the Library’s Briefing on Women and the Economy.
Also attached is some collected background material:
HM Treasury also produced an Impact on Equalities analysis of the Spending Review which includes some information on the expected impact by gender.
Related Links
Documents to download
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Effect of the Autumn Statement Measures on Women (123 KB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015: a Summary (299 KB, PDF) (299 KB, PDF)
- Women and the Economy (208 KB, PDF) (208 KB, PDF)
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Business and Consumer Confidence: Information on business and consumer confidence surveys, which is generally released ahead of official statistical data and can indicate changes to the economic outlook as well as turning points in the economic cycle.
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This is a purely statistical note on public sector borrowing (the budget deficit), public sector debt and government debt interest payments.
