Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

EUROZONE — Deflation Is Back: You’d never guess from the reference to “inflation,” but in fact the eurozone’s prices decreased by 0.1 percent in September according to the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat. In September 2015, negative an...

Looking at the figures from the Office of Budget Responsibility the figures are interesting. You can see in this graph that spending on welfare in the UK, contrary to what most people believe is not high compared to GDP. In fact the UK is around half...

Defendants are being “incentivised” by government-imposed charges to plead guilty rather than risk an expensive fight in the crown court, the chairman of the Bar Council has warned. The criminal courts charge, which requires those who plead guilty at...

If you have been sanctioned you may find you have fifteen days to manage without food. This is if you have used up your three Food Bank, food vouchers, in a twelve month period. Different Food Banks may have different rules. Another option is to appl...

EVIDENCE SESSION: Benefit delivery  9.30am, Wednesday 21 October, Wilson Room, Portcullis House  The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that...

Facebook paid just £4,327 corporation tax in the UK despite £35m staff bonuses The social networking firm paid average of £210,000 to staff in Britain, but overall loss in UK of £28.5m meant very little corporation tax was due. Meanwhile in the US ju...

Private equity company Warburg Pincus has been chortling away this week.  Through its 2010 investment in discount store chain Poundland, Warburg Pincus helped transform Poundland into the largest single-price value retailer in Europe b...

From October 2015, PIP will be rolled out across Great Britain to claimants that have a long-term or indefinite award of Disability Living Allowane (DLA). The rollout will be carefully managed to ensure that the volume of invitations issued to claima...

Employer referral service is now live across Great Britain. Fit for Work is a free occupational health scheme designed to help manage sickness absence. Companies can receive a £500 tax exemption for each employee referred to the service on medical gr...