Economic news and events

Ireland’s quarterly economic growth accelerated at a much quicker pace than the initial estimate, provisional data published by the Central Statistics Office showed on...

Ireland’s unemployment rate continued to improve in May, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed on Thursday.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.0%...

UK construction activity was better than expected in May, as its decline slowed, survey results from S&P Global showed on Thursday.

The construction purchasing managers’...

The UK’s headline inflation figure was 0.1 percentage points too high for April due to an error in the vehicle tax data collected, the Office...

Troubled Thames Water is ‘contemptible’ and lies to the public, Parliament has heard.

The scathing assessment was made at Westminster by Labour former MP John Cryer...

Health workers are to be balloted on industrial action in a dispute over pay.

Unite said its members in England and Wales will vote in the...

Rachel Reeves acknowledged she had been forced to reject calls for funding for ‘good’ projects as she refused to loosen the rules governing her stewardship...

More pensioners will receive the winter fuel allowance this winter – but payments will not be universal, the government has said.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told reporters...

The UK government remains ‘confident’ it can implement its trade deal with the US in time to prevent Britain’s steel industry facing even higher tariffs,...

UK service sector activity returned to stronger-than-expected growth in May, but pressures on margins from increased costs, and a long streak of falling employment numbers...