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The Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Business Monitor, produced in partnership with the Fraser of Allander Institute shows that as lockdown restrictions begin to ease and the economy starts to open back up, sentiment amongst the Scottish business community is showing some tentative signs of improvement. However, the overall outlook remains challenging.
ONS have recently released some new experimental regional data which look at how households spend their money. This article looks at these data in more detail, exploring what they tell us about household consumption and saving across the UK.
As per usual, there was no amount of confusion about what the Chancellor’s statement yesterday meant for the Scottish Budget. Different numbers mean different things to people. But the outlook for the Scottish budget in 2020/21 has changed substantially since it was published in March. So, what do we know?
The Chancellor today announced a number of measures designed to stimulate economic recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Overall, whilst significant, it is clear that the Chancellor is keeping some options in his back pocket for the budget in the Autumn. And whilst it is right that we …
Fiscal event or not a fiscal event…. today’s announcements in a nutshell Read More »
We set aside some time yesterday to look over the Prime Minister’s economy announcements, following the trail that it would set out a plan for recovery. At the heart of the announcement was a £5bn “new deal” to build homes and infrastructure. But has been widely pointed out, there was …
Fiscal stimulus? Plus a note about ‘borrowing powers’… Read More »
Next week, we’ll be publishing our latest Fraser of Allander Commentary, in partnership with Deloitte. It promises to be a bumper edition. So much so, that we’ve decided to stagger our articles over the course of the week – so that there is no excuse not to read all of …
On Friday we wrote about the long-term challenges (and opportunities) that are likely to come our way as we emerge from the COVID-19 economic crisis. And the ‘big questions’ that face us all about the nature of the recovery that we seek to build. Of course, it’s easy at times …
Quite rightly, policymakers remain focused upon supporting us through the challenging days and weeks to come as safely as possible. Investing in our public health today is an investment in our long-term economic health tomorrow. But the immediate economic cost is huge. In recent days, including from our own Scottish …
In this podcast, Graeme Roy is joined by Mairi Spowage and James Black to discuss the latest results from the Fraser of Allander Scottish Business Monitor. The survey, done in partnership with law firm Addleshaw Goddard, has been running since 1998, and seeks to capture business activity and outlook in …
Expected sharp fall in outlook for business – Scottish Business Monitor Q1 2020 Read More »
As the full lockdown in Scotland begins its third week, we are all getting used to the restrictions on social distancing, and, for those of us lucky enough to be working from home, new ways of working. The focus of course remains as it should on the public health crisis. …
Coronavirus: quantifying the impact on the Scottish Economy Read More »