Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Can we ever really tackle rising public spending?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Can we ever really tackle rising public spending?
Last week, the government unveiled around £30bn worth of cuts to public services as it attempts to plug a fiscal hole. Governments have attempted to rein in spending in the past and struggled to do so.
Philip Coggan takes a look at why public spending tends to rise in the long run and the continuing political battle to contain it.
Guests:
David Gauke, former Conservative MP and Treasury minister from 2010 to 2017
Carys Roberts, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research
Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Government
Producer: Ben Carter
Production co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross and Maria Ogundele
Sound engineer: James Beard
Editor: Clare Fordham
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.6
195195 ratings
Last week, the government unveiled around £30bn worth of cuts to public services as it attempts to plug a fiscal hole. Governments have attempted to rein in spending in the past and struggled to do so.
Philip Coggan takes a look at why public spending tends to rise in the long run and the continuing political battle to contain it.
Guests:
David Gauke, former Conservative MP and Treasury minister from 2010 to 2017
Carys Roberts, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research
Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Government
Producer: Ben Carter
Production co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross and Maria Ogundele
Sound engineer: James Beard
Editor: Clare Fordham
More shows like Analysis
View all
Global News Podcast
7,689 Listeners
From Our Own Correspondent
366 Listeners
More or Less: Behind the Stats
897 Listeners
Intelligence Squared
790 Listeners
Newshour
1,045 Listeners
In Our Time
5,441 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,793 Listeners
Witness History
952 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,794 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,099 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,924 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
415 Listeners
Science Weekly
417 Listeners
Thinking Allowed
299 Listeners
Moral Maze
67 Listeners
The Inquiry
744 Listeners
The Life Scientific
243 Listeners
The Briefing Room
69 Listeners
Newscast
649 Listeners
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
4,181 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,190 Listeners
Americast
737 Listeners
Sideways
75 Listeners