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National debt stats
Latest public finances data [HM Treasury]
2010 Emergency Budget - PSND projections [HM Treasury]
Population projections [ONS]
Household projections [Communities
and Local Government]
Employment figures from the Labour Force Survey [ONS]
Median wage data [ONS]
Britain's budget deficit
Budget deficit data from the Public Finances Databank [HM Treasury]
Public borrowing stats from Budget chapter C [HM Treasury]
IMF forecasts and historical comparisons [Policy
Exchange]
The bond market
About UK gilts [DMO]
Holders of gilts
[DMO]
Measuring the national debt
Definition of Public Sector Net Debt [HM Treasury]
Official estimates for cost of bank bailouts [ONS]
The Government's commitments to the banks [Bloomberg]
On the exclusion of PFI from PSND [The
Guardian]
Public spending in Britain
Public spending stats from Budget chapter C [HM
Treasury]
The impact of fiscal policy
OECD report on the value of public capital expenditure [OECD]
Analysis of public spending rises [Policy
Exchange]
The consequences of national debt
Average gilt maturity
[DMO]
Cost of debt interest [HM
Treasury]
US Government report on the economic impact of national debt [Concord
Coalition]
Crowding out
[Modeling Monetary Economies - Google Books, p272]
Forecasting national debt
Official PSND projections [HM Treasury]
IMF GDP growth forecast [Times
Online]
Independent GDP growth forecasts [Policy
Exchange]
The history of Britain's debt
Formation of the Bank of England [Wikipedia]
History of national debt [HM
Treasury]
Historical data from the Public Finances Databank [HM Treasury]
Quantitative Easing
QE explained [Bank of
England]
Asset purchases by the BoE [Bank of
England]
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