• Spending Review 2013 - a preview
    Later today we shall hear the results of the now traditional Westminster sporting spectacle of the Spending Review. The Chancellor is due to announce the departmental spending settlements for Whitehall...
  • Will the Governments spending review be enough to save nature?
    Today’s blog is written by Paul Morling, RSPB’s Principal Economist, on how crucial increased government spending is to restoring and enhancing the nature. Nature is in trouble. We are seeing declines...
  • The 2015 Spending Review: what's at stake and why it pays to invest in nature
    While some of us have been off on our summer holidays, spare a thought for those civil servants that were tasked with developing departmental spending bids over the past six weeks. In late July, the...
  • What did the Autumn Budget and Spending Review deliver for nature ?
    Today’s blog is written by Paul Morling, Principal Economist reflecting on the outcomes of the Autumn Budget and Spending review. Fiscal statements are primarily economic statements and building back...
  • Spending Review: first relief and then a reality check
    Reflecting on today’s announcement that DEFRA would be 15% in real terms by 2020 one of the RSPB's economists remarked “when you’re expecting the apocalypse a broken leg feels like a Christmas present...