UK Business Data

Purple Market Research has recently published a summary of useful information concerning the impact of Covid-19 on UK Business. Unfortunately their good news is not as good as one would wish because they have referred to information published by the …

Commentary on the scenario as published by the Office of Budgetary Responsibility (OBR)

 
Introduction

This document provides a commentary on the scenario[1] recently published by the OBR, being their assessment of the likely cost to the Treasury …

Summary of the main findings to date

UKPLC have been conducting telephone and online research to gain information on the effects of the coronavirus on UK business and, although we cannot claim to have a statistically reliable dataset, the situation …

By an economist

We asked a distinguished economist for his ideas for our on-going research into the impact of Covid-19 on the UK business community. Here are his thoughts:

One possible objective of current research is to monitor blow-by-blow how …

The majority of the UK workforce is made up of employees, people who work for a public or private organisation and who pay their income tax at source through the pay as you earn mechanism.  PAYE (as it is universally …

In July 2017, whilst political and media attention was squarely concentrated on Brexit, an important ground breaking review of the world of work was published. The report (entitled “Good Work”) was originally commissioned by Prime Minister Theresa May, …

There has been a consistent concern about the lack of growth in productivity within the UK economy following from the worldwide financial crash of 2008/2009.

We examined the ratio of turnover to employment as a surrogate for a more precise …

More than 15 years ago the Bank of England commissioned a series of reports on finance for small firms[1]. The combined reports, part of a bigger ten year program of research, came to some unsurprising conclusions. They are …

This brief write up of the seminar (full seminar here) presented by David Nguyen of ESCoE and NIESR at the Office of National Statistics London office on 14^th January 2020 was prepared by Tony Dent of the Campaign …