Department of Trade and Industry
UK interest rate shock - 08/09/99 up a quarter-point to 5.25%... The CBI described it as "a big disappointment to industry" and said it could be damaging to growth
UK inflation up slightly - 14/12/99
Wales tops business failure league - 04/01/00
Interest rates rise 0.25% - 13/01/00
London 'costliest EU city' - 20/01/00
Inflation stays low - 25/01/00
Pound at record levels - 25/01/00
Portillo and Brown give Commons some spark - 03/02/00
Portillo warns of 'brain drain' risk - 06/02/00
Minimal impact of minimum wage - 07/02/00
UK interest rates up 0.25% - 10/02/00
Scottish Companies Fear Consequences of Government's Aggregate Tax Plans - 16/02/00
Huge surge in retail sales - 17/02/00
Brown's Budget dilemma - 25/02/00
Take jobs, Brown tells unemployed - 28/02/00
MPs criticise 'green tax failures' - 29/02/00
Task forces attacked by peers - 23/02/00
Has Britain been quangoed? - 25/02/00
Brown faces jobs-not-Giros row - 29/02/00
Brown unveils jobs initiative - 29/02/00
£100,000 for new Dome chief - 28/02/00
Brown targets black economy - 09/03/00
Shipyard's anger over lost contract - 10/03/00
Labour tax rises 'total billions' - 12/03/00
Super-Jumbo aid deal approved - 13/03/00
Pensions error to cost millions - 15/03/00
Taxes are higher, admits Downing St - 15/03/00
Unions lobby to save Rover - 15/03/00
Insurance industry predicts profits dive - 22/03/00
Labour heartland wooed with £20bn for NHS - 22/03/00
Main Budget Changes - 22/03/00
Old Labour logic 'will raise inflation' - 22/03/00
Brown's 27 per cent income tax rise - 22/02/00
Brown the mugger 'wants you to thank him for giving you your bus fare home' - 22/03/00
Business: Tax change will cost us billions, firms complain - 23/03/00
Aggregates tax: Quarry jobs at risk as new road costs rise - 23/03/00
Inside politics: Iron Chancellor shows that he may have feet of clay after all - 23/03/00
Red Book reveals Brown's real figures - 23/03/00
Rover blames Byers for crisis - 25/03/00
Venture firms ready to quit UK - 26/03/00 over Brown's Budget proposals on controlled foreign companies and double taxation
Pit plan backfires as cheap coal floods in - 26/03/00 the Government's moratorium on gas-fired plants - introduced in 1998 - has "directly caused British pits to close
Early retirement costing £16bn a year - 27/03/00
Elderly 'missing out' on benefits - 29/03/00
Budget leaves one in three voters feeling worse off - 01/04/00
Council tax rises three times rate of inflation - 01/04/00
Blair adviser warns against adopting the euro - 02/04/00
Brown: I won't meddle to devalue sterling - 02/04/00
Eddie defends inflation policy - 04/04/00
Internet shares in day of turmoil - 05/04/00
House price fears over Prescott's loans offer - 05/04/00
Brown's dysfunctional family is Budget winner - 05/04/00
House price confusion - 05/04/00
Chancellor refuses to drive down the pound - 06/04/00
Interest rate decision looms - 06/04/00
Whitehall spending 'is out of control' - 15/04/00
Mobile phone licences auction tops £20bn - 15/04/00
Inflation at record low - 18/04/00
Mandelson sees no early end to high pound - 20/04/00
Brown faces revolt over £22bn phone auction windfall - 22/04/00
Car union chief accuses Byers over job loses - 25/04/00
Why Ford was forced to apply the brakes - 25/04/00
War got sleeping giant into top gear - 25/04/00
Brown 'is hoarding landfill tax for election war chest' - 25/04/00
Retirement tax squeeze for workers under 55 - 25/04/00
'Retirement ban' for under-55s - 25/04/00
Firms 'face £4bn bill in Budget tax changes' - 26/04/00
UK mobile phone auction nets billions - 27/04/00
CBI sounds recession alarm - 27/04/00
Call for tax rise on second homes - 27/04/00
Brown to pay off debt with £22bn windfall - 28/04/00
How Brown's windfall compares to past payouts - 28/04/00
Cunning poker player who outwitted mobile phone giants - 28/04/00
Spend mobile windfall urges Kilfoyle - 28/04/00
Government delays tax changes - 04/05/00
Pound plunges as Bank holds line on rates - 05/05/00
Portillo says report shoots down Brown - 08/05/00
International groups keep tax pressure on Brown - 08/05/00
No escape from pension trap for now, warns Brown - 09/05/00
Rejoicing may prove short-lived for Byers - 10/05/00
£30bn profit on the roads - 11/05/00
Bank warning sends pound to four-year low - 11/05/00
Blair to fight for Ford jobs - 10/05/00
Ministers bid to ease Ford blow - 11/05/00
Pound on rack as industrial output dips - 12/05/00
Ford jobs blow for Dagenham - 12/05/00
Blair rules out pound devaluation - 14/05/00
Blair clashes with business chief - 16/05/00
Unemployment reaches 20-year low - 17/05/00
Part-time workers win fight for pension rights - 17/05/00
Six-month rule will bar claims - 17/05/00
Sterling slumps to four-year dollar low - 17/05/00
Brown admits pensions gaffe - 19/05/00
Is Iron Chancellor beginning to rust? - 19/05/00
Sterling at a six-year low against dollar - 19/05/00
UK car output slumps - 22/05/00
Brown in snub to MPs over Bank job - 25/05/00
Brown urged to act over Tory pension pledge - 25/05/00
Brown pledge on poverty - 26/05/00
Brown 'plans £40bn boost' - 29/05/00
Labour plans a £28bn summer spending spree - 30/05/00
Boom for world economy - 30/05/00
Outrage in City as [Financial Services and Markets] Bill is rammed through - 06/06/00 Critics fear it will swamp the City in red tape
Inflation creeps higher - 13/06/00
Corus axes steel jobs - 16/06/00
Brown issues fraudster warning - 22/06/00
Trade gap soars on strong pound - 29/06/00
Tax squeeze on childless couples - 30/06/00
Britain 'now less equal' - 30/06/00 UK slumps from 15th to 16th in list of 18 comparable nations, according to UN report
Garages back cheaper petrol, but not boycott - 30/06/00 Petrol retailers join motorists in demanding urgent cuts in fuel tax
Labour spends half as much as the Tories - 30/06/00 figures released yesterday showed capital expenditure by the state down 50% on the Conservative's last year in power
Tories attack Labour's underspending - 01/07/00
UK manufacturing in decline - 04/07/00
Engineers warn of recession as pound surges - 05/07/00
£1 billion to reverse drain of scientists - 05/07/00 Gordon Brown to unveil fresh government spending boost to stem loss of science brains
Foreign cash creates record jobs - 05/07/00
Prices make British worst-off shoppers in Europe - 09/07/00 UK consumers have 40% less spending power than Americans and Europeans
Britain loses new Bentley to Germany - 09/07/00
New Deal cost 'underestimated' - 10/07/00 60% of those people would have got jobs without the intervention of the New Deal
New Deal 'costs £11,000 per job created' - 11/07/00
New Deal youths lose jobs within 13 weeks - 11/07/00 Critical report shows a quarter of people in employment scheme fail to complete the programme
TUC seeks euro action to help industry - 11/07/00 Britain should buy European currency on money markets to weaken the pound, union says
Go-ahead for £1bn Navy warship order - 12/07/00 Government approves building of three destroyers to safeguard 5,500 British shipbuilding jobs
Brown set to spend even more - 13/07/00 Chancellor to increase public spending by £43 billion, rather than expected £40 billion
The economy - 13/07/00 Pledges are not all they seem
Car price gap growing - 13/07/00
Tory scheme to scrap New Deal - 14/07/00 Private agencies would be paid fees to find jobs for unemployed under Conservative plans
Huge increase in poor families - 14/07/00 Households living on less than half average wage up by 1.1 million to 11 million
Tories 'will scrap New Deal' - 14/07/00
Corus confirms job cuts - 14/07/00
Brown to open up coffers - 16/07/00
Forces chief routs Brown on spending - 15/07/00 Chief of the Defence Staff secures first rise in military budget since end of Cold War : Sir Charles has the right to demand a meeting with the Prime Minister : Mr Blair sided with the Service chiefs and the Defence Secretary in a classic spending showdown with the Chancellor
MoD cuts that drove military into battle - 15/07/00 Traditional battle between Treasury and Ministry of Defence reaches 'high intensity' proportions
Tories take up tax cudgel in bid to batter Labour - 15/07/00 Hague claims Government is basing spending plans on healthy economic growth assumption
Risks in Brown's blow-out - 16/07/00
Dangerous Money - 16/07/00 Brown has a mountain of cash to dispense but no proven record for getting value for money
Foreigners needed to stop the rot - 17/07/00 Fruit farmers have millions of pounds' worth of soft fruit rotting because of pickers shortage
Brown set to give away billions - 17/07/00
Promise keepers? - 14/07/00 In fact, there have been few targets in any areas which clearly show whether government money has been spent wisely
Brown told not to 'hype' spending - 18/07/00
Brown unveils £43bn spending boost - 18/07/00
The CSR at a glance - 18/07/00
Strong economy aids spending - 18/07/00
Locking Prudence in the cupboard - 18/07/00
Brown fires election starting gun - 19/07/00
'There will be a step-change in capital spending' - 19/07/00
Brown woos voters with £43bn spree - 19/07/00 Chancellor puts Labour on road to general election with big spending increases
Spending review - Brown's 'prudence' is a £100bn gamble - 19/07/00
The Chancellor's speech - 19/07/00 Brown sings praises of his own prudence
Chancellor's splurge leaves Labour with no excuses - 19/07/00
Employment: Now it's a new deal for all - 19/07/00
Chancellor's splurge leaves Labour with no excuses - 19/07/00
Total public spending 2000-2004 - 19/07/00
The policy - 19/07/00 Cabinet makes a stand for stability
How they cashed in - 19/07/00 Cabinet ministers celebrating spending increases
Standards - 19/07/00 Money linked to performance targets
City reaction - 19/07/00 Pressure on inflation feared
The debate - 19/07/00 'A return to tax and spend'
Taxation Results, May 2000 - The Chartered Institute of Taxation - 19/07/00
Brown gives it away with a grin - 19/07/00
Chancellor out on the razzle after ditching prudence - 19/07/00
'Thrift has enabled us to be generous' - 19/07/00
Old Labour's faith in Brown is repaid - 19/07/00
Targets are set to tackle poverty - 19/07/00
The impact of the Chancellor's spending programme assessed - 19/07/00
The City takes spending in its stride - 19/07/00
Dear prudence - 19/07/00 Mr Brown has already taken more away from us in tax than he said he would, and has shown little sign of spending it wisely
Brown rejects 'tax and spend' charge - 19/07/00
MPC warns on spending - 19/07/00
Bank warns that spending could hit interest rates - 20/07/00
Share option plan to 'cut millions from profits' - 20/07/00 Radical accounting rules proposed by industry regulator could be law by 2002
Veritas puts investment on ice over taxation - 20/07/00 Government blamed as software company halves its UK development plans
Brown's spree triggers Bank inflation fears - 20/07/00 Government warned that plans could have adverse affects unless consumers rein in spending
Brown's spree is inflation 'threat' - 20/07/00
Concern over spending boosts sterling - 20/07/00
Bank ready to douse Gordon's enthusiasm - 20/07/00
Law to be relaxed for skilled migrants - 22/07/00 Government aims to fill vacancies and boost economy with foreign workers
Brown's sums are 'spin not substance' - 23/07/00 The Government's carefully spun promises on public spending were beginning to unravel yesterday after calculations showed that Gordon Brown's figures do not add up to the record increases he promised
Plan to stop 'brain drain' - 26/07/00
Brown's spending 'puts Bank on spot' - 07/08/00
UK unemployment tumbles - 16/08/00
Who owes the most? IMF reveals figures on debt - 17/08/00
City think-tank calls for Frankfurt exchange tie-up to be abandoned - 21/08/00 the markets' interests would be better served if the two exchanges remained separate and competed for business
What the City thinks about the merger - 21/08/00 "I can see us in a few years lamenting how London once was a great financial centre"
Firms face extra £1bn a year on council tax bill - 25/08/00 "yet another tax on business"
Brown faces TUC battle on minimum wage rise - 25/08/00 the TUC's general council called for the adult rate to be increased from £3.70 an hour to between £4.50 and £5
Unions demand higher minimum wage - 25/08/00
Nafta partnership would help Britain, says American study - 29/08/00
Sterling plumbs the depths - 30/08/00 $1.4602
Brown calls for hard work - 12/09/00
Pound plunges against the dollar - 12/09/00
UK inflation at record low - 12/09/00
Jobless figures hit 25-year low - 13/09/00
Weak euro boost to [UK] manufacturing - 18/09/00
Pound hits 14-year low against dollar - 19/09/00
Brown defiant over fuel demands - 19/09/00
Businesses face £1bn bill for Labour's local 'stealth tax' - 20/09/00
British economy could be creeping to 'slugflation' - 25/09/00
UK unemployment hits new low - 18/10/00
Manufacturing confidence weakens - 03/11/00
UK manufacturing recovery falters - 06/11/00
Jobless total breaks falling streak - 15/11/00 Up by 3,500
Job cuts 'causing misery' - 27/12/00
Competition cuts cost of electricity by £750m - 05/01/01
Brown rules out tax bonanza - 05/01/01
Labour puts £40bn burden on business - 05/02/01
Home loans fall as Bank cuts rate - 09/02/01 to 5.75pc
'Blair's red tape hurting British firms' - 16/02/01 Blair has been accused by an Forbes Global, American business magazine, of failing to live up to his promise of a "pro-business" agenda
Bosses tell Brown to stop meddling with tax system - 17/02/01
How thousands of incomprehensible Labour riddles prevent business working - 17/02/01
G7: Economic growth will be 'slower' - 17/02/01
Firms to fight rise in minimum wage - 18/02/01 to more than £4 an hour (ahead of the general election)
Red tape Tony - 18/02/01 Britain is being strangled by new Labour bureaucracy, claim the Americans
Trade deficit hits record high - 23/02/01
Britain 'facing slowdown' - 12/04/01
Business leaders warn of slowdown - 12/04/01
Labour 'puts women's jobs at risk' - 17/04/01
Businesses face pension fines - 17/04/01
Poor getting poorer under Blair, says Portillo - 18/04/01
Slump will hit Britain, says Brown - 24/04/01 "The Chancellor thought he had abolished the economic cycle and has set out plans for the future on that basis. Now it appears that his complacency is finally being shaken." - Portillo
Look on the bright side: recession is on the way - 24/04/01
Rebuff for Blair as 3,100 Motorola jobs go - 25/04/01
Slow down, Brown - 25/04/01 Mr Brown's much-vaunted prudence could start to look very hollow indeed
Brown faces revolt over fund formula - 25/04/01 including his old rivals John Prescott and Peter Mandelson
EC tells Brown to curb spending - 26/04/01
Hague to attack Labour on economy - 26/04/01 "Brown has left Britain inadequately prepared for the coming world economic slowdown"
Hague on warpath over economy - 26/04/01
Brown warned over public spending - 27/04/01
Hague attacks Labour over economic record - 27/04/01 the British Chambers of Commerce estimate that the cost of new regulation on British business over the lifetime of this Parliament was £10 billion
Labour taxes are 'costing an extra two weeks' pay' - 30/04/01
Why do we put up with this burden of taxation? - 30/04/01 The economic inheritance left by the Tories has combined with favourable world trading conditions to produce an economy in which most people don't feel too badly off - yet
Deficit 'gives lie' to Brown prudence - 03/05/01 Britain will be the only European Union country with a budget deficit in 2004... Mr Brown has already been warned by the European Commission about his spending plans and now this will put him at the bottom of the EU budget-balancing table
Chancellor riding for a fall, says think-tank - 04/05/01 Brown's handling of the economy has not been as good as he claims and he could yet regret his confident assertion to have abolished "boom and bust"
Brown faces 'black hole' in spending - 11/05/01 The Chancellor was forced to acknowledge yesterday that he might have to rein back on ambitious plans to boost spending on public services - the centrepiece of Labour's election campaign - half-way through the next Parliament
Climate change levy triples pace of costs on businesses - 15/05/01
Blair under fire from boardrooms - 21/05/01 Labour's claim to have replaced the Conservatives as the party of business is challenged today by more than 140 leading businessmen and women
Business's big guns sign up for the Tories - 21/05/01
Labour is bad for business - 21/05/01 The party can miss its pledges on the public services; it can alienate the police; it can even assault voters physically. But as long as mortgage rates keep falling, no one cares
Pound stays low as UK exports slip - 25/05/01
Labour woos business - 29/05/01
Labour's spending dilemmas - 10/06/01
UK inflation hits two-year high - 12/06/01
UK 'slipping into recession' - 15/07/01
UK 'on brink of recession' - 23/07/01 "The strength of the pound has hurt British manufacturing" - a very fishy story, since the Pound is actually at a low against the $ and most of the World's other currencies
Global jobs and shares gloom - 24/07/01 Marconi wants to cut 4,000 jobs across the world
Brown voices slowdown fears - 28/07/01
UK manufacturing in recession - 06/08/01
Manufacturers call for help as recession hits - 07/08/01
Britons run up a debt record - 11/08/01 the Chancellor, who has repeatedly claimed to have ended the cycle of boom and bust, was urged by Tory MPs to "wake up" to the growing threat of an economic downturn... his "stealth taxes" were adding to imbalances in the economy
£14bn shortfall could force up tax by 4p - 13/08/01 Institute for Public Policy Research calls on Tony Blair and Mr Brown to abandon the system of "stealth" taxes imposed in Labour's first term
Surprise rise in UK inflation - 18/09/01
Slump threatens Brown's budget - 30/09/01
Chancellor hints at higher taxes in 'testing times' - 02/10/01
UK manufacturing in 'critical' condition - 11/10/01 and its problems are spreading to the service sector... prospects are poorer for the next three months
Back to rising unemployment - 14/11/01
UK industrial output slumps - 06/12/01
Government 'losing trust' of City - 06/03/02
Gold sales leave Britain worse off - 06/03/02
The moral of taxation - 20/03/02 with the NHS getting worse and Stephen Byers making an even bigger mess of the railways than John Prescott, taxes are set to rise again
Time to take your medicine - 18/04/02 Labour returned to traditional tax and spend policies yesterday when Gordon Brown announced the equivalent of a 3p in the pound increase in income tax
Foreign firms gain 'at expense of UK plc' - 18/04/02
New taxes turn business mood sour - 22/04/02
Firms claim health levy will cost jobs - 23/04/02
New taxes turn business mood sour - 23/04/02 "Gordon Brown is bashing business to gain popularity"
Economy fails to grow for second quarter - 24/05/02
Brown will cost us billions, say oil firms - 24/05/02
UK economy stagnates - 24/05/02
CBI and union inflict double blow on Blair - 26/06/02 Before the 1997 election, Mr Blair deliberately sought to win the approval of big business
Why sterling and the dollar are struggling to keep up - 26/06/02
Shares plunge as Chancellor gives away billions - 16/07/02
It isn't really cash for kids but billions for bureaucrats - 16/07/02
Mine to be phased out - 16/07/02
Inflation falls to lowest-ever level - 16/07/02
Inflation falls to lowest level on record - 17/07/02
Unemployment figures increase - 17/07/02
This last socialist fling is doomed to end in tears - 17/07/02
2,000 jobs to go at doomed coalfield that lost millions - 17/07/02
Minister: We got it wrong on industry - 06/08/02 British manufacturing output has registered its most serious slump since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, admits Patricia Hewitt
Scottish economy in recession for the first time in 20 years - 08/08/02
Britain's trade gap widens to £3bn - 09/08/02
UK shares fall again - 24/09/02
Britain spends beyond its means - 27/09/02
Inflation surges through target figure - 17/12/02
Forecast puts UK at bottom of world growth league - 13/01/03
Surprise rate cut to help flagging economy - 07/02/03 the outlook has abruptly deteriorated
Blair should take interest - 07/02/03 It would be better if the Prime Minister kept quiet about the economy. Every time he trumpets how well it is doing, the news gets worse
UK industry suffers sharp decline - 07/02/03 Britain's manufacturing industry is going through its worst recession since the early 1990s
UK shares hit new low - 10/03/03 London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares has fallen to its lowest level for seven and a half years
Brown 'to cut growth forecasts' - 06/04/03
UK jobless total jumps - 11/06/03 the number of people out of work and claiming benefit rose by 9,700 last month - the biggest jump for more than 10 years
Slowest UK growth in 11 years - 27/06/03
UK industry faces slowdown - 16/10/03
UK business climate 'worsening' - 17/11/03
Blair speech fails to thrill CBI - 17/11/03 It was difficult to object to the content of the speech, because there wasn't much content at all
Howard slams 'poisonous' taxes - 18/11/03 CBI leaders admit that its support for the Labour government is wavering
UK trade deficit widens again - 19/01/04
OECD warns on UK budget deficit - 20/01/04
Britain goes deeper into the red - 21/01/04
Brown the big spender hits brakes - 27/01/04
Bankruptcy rates at ten-year high - 06/02/04
UK trade deficit hits record high - 09/03/04
Brown faces post-election Budget crunch - 09/03/04
UK imports at record monthly high - 09/12/04
Further rise in UK jobless total - 16/02/05
Receivers called in by MG Rover - 07/04/05
Will Rover collapse hurt Labour? - 08/04/05
UK jobless total on the up again - 13/04/05 Unemployment has risen for the fourth month in a row
UK inflation rate jumps to 1.9% - 19/04/05
Bankruptcies reach another record - 06/05/05
Manufacturing job hopes 'worsen' - 05/09/05
Unemployment up as vacancies fall - 14/09/05
Slowest UK GDP growth in 12 years - 28/09/05
Brown 'on thin ice with economy' - 17/10/05
Bankruptcies rise to new record - 04/11/05
UK consumer confidence at new low - 09/11/05
Slow growth puts finances at risk - 02/12/05 the UK economy is slowing down and Gordon Brown is unlikely to meet his targets for the public finances
Brown halves UK growth forecast - 05/12/05
Deficit widens as growth slows - 05/12/05
1975 economic fears are laid bare - 29/12/05 the last Labour government managed to get inflation up to 27.6% in 1975
Jobless total at three-year high - 18/01/06
Bankruptcies show sharp increase - 03/02/06
UK goods trade deficit increases - 09/02/06
UK unemployment total rises again - 15/02/06
Boots set to cut up to 2,250 jobs - 14/03/06
250 jobs to go at car audio plant - 17/03/06
UK jobless figure keeps on rising - 12/04/06
Insolvencies show sharp increase - 04/08/06
Inflation is 10% for middle class - 20/08/06
Inflation hits highest level in nine years - 13/09/06
Insolvencies at new record high - 03/11/06
Revealed: the real rate of inflation - 04/12/06 four times the Labour Government's published rate of inflation!
Outrage over 9% inflation rate for pensioners - 05/12/06
Families 'pay £200 extra tax in a year' - 08/12/06
UK inflation at near-decade high - 12/12/06
BoE 'hurt by UK growth targets' - 18/12/06
UK deficit widens as imports rise - 10/01/07
Shock as UK rates rise to 5.25% - 11/01/07
Rate of inflation at 10% for some families - 15/01/07
UK inflation rate at 11-year high - 16/01/07
Cost of living hits a 15-year high - 17/01/07
The beast of inflation is stirring into life - 17/01/07 the Labour disease
Record numbers of people go bust - 02/02/07
Blow to Treasury as eBay leaves the UK - 04/02/07 the decision will embarrass Gordon Brown, because it suggests that Britain is not the most business-friendly country in Europe
Tax rises 'crippling UK business' - 19/03/07
Number going bust hits new record - 04/05/07
Inflation 'pushing up pay deals' - 11/05/07
Q&A: Strong pound - winners and losers - 10/07/07 The pound is at a 26-year high. Big exporters - such as AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Smiths Industries - will all be hit
UK pub lunch price soars to £20 - 16/10/07
Food cost increase adds £750 to annual bill - 15/01/08
Fastest rise for 17 years in factory gate prices - 15/01/08
