HM Treasury (UK)

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What are the potential productivity benefits from an increase in diffusion of technology and from AI? What is needed to boost technology and AI uptake?

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What is the effect of the transition to Net Zero on productivity and growth – and how is this impact influenced by climate and wider policy levers?

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What is driving the rise in health-related labour market inactivity? And what policies could be used to tackle this?

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What is the impact of employer and wider labour market regulation on productivity and economic growth?

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How effective are different (actual or potential) policy interventions in increasing participation of women in the labour market and the representation of women in higher-paid occupations, sectors and levels of seniority?

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How do financial incentives affect individual labour market decisions and how do these effects vary, for example across people with different characteristics, time and wider economic factors?

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How do employment costs affect employers’ decisions, including labour demand, pay and broader remuneration, and decisions on how to engage and structure their workforce? How do those effects vary, for example across firms and workers with different characteristics?

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How is the impact on consumers and competition of different market structures in the financial sector best measured?

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What are the key economic benefits to the UK of trade agreements that cover financial services?

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What risks do excessive leverage, maturity & liquidity mismatches, and concentrated positions currently pose to the financial system? Are there other risks that threaten financial instability?

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What are the latest changes in flows of multilateral, bilateral and private sector lending to sovereigns and what might be the implications of these changes?

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What are the main policy lessons the UK can learn from other countries in achieving our macroeconomic and fiscal objectives - in particular improving productivity growth and labour force participation, and fiscal sustainability?

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What are the main actions at an international level that can promote strong and sustainable medium-term economic growth, in the context of weaker productivity growth in advanced economies since the Global Financial Crisis?

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How can we better understand the implications for the economy and public finances of key global and domestic risks identified by the National Risk Register or the OBR, who regularly publish their assessment of fiscal risks and sustainability?

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How do thresholds and boundaries in the tax system influence taxpayer/business behaviour?

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How can the collection of debts owed to government be fairly and sustainably optimised?

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How can the government better understand the interactions between different areas of spending, for example between early years, health and welfare?

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What funding and powers should we devolve to empower local leaders to provide stronger place-based leadership, and what other reforms are needed to support the sustainability of local government finances? How can this spending be better directed to encourage regional economic growth?