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Comment in advance of ONS Inflation figures: Inflation may be temporarily helping exporters, but rail users will feel more pressure from January
Inflation may be temporarily helping exporters, but rail users will feel more pressure from January Tomorrow the Office for National Statistics will release the latest data on perhaps one of this year’s most-watched indicators: inflation. As we’ve been saying for nearly a year, inflation is likely...
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Centre for Cities needs a fair hearing: good policy is hard enough without reducing complex issues to binary choices
Yesterday, the UK thinktank Centre for Cities released a report, Should we move public sector jobs out of London?, the conclusion of which was that, whilst the relocation of parts of the BBC out of London to Salford brought jobs to MediaCityUK, its wider impact on employment across Greater Manchester...
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Chamber Comments on GDP Estimate
Commenting on the publication today of the Office for National Statistics’ First Estimate of GDP for Q2 2017, Christian Spence, Head of Research & Policy at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said: “This first estimate of economic activity for Q2 2017 of 0.3% on the previous quarter...
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Chamber Welcomes Investment in Manchester Airport
Commenting on the news of investment in Manchester Airport, Christian Spence, Head of Research & Policy at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said: “The investment being made into delivering even greater capacity at Manchester Airport will provide significant benefits not only for the...