Spring budget 2023: experts react to UK government's plan to get the economy moving

By Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
Alan Shipman, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
Andrew Burlinson, Lecturer in Energy Economics, University of East Anglia
Catherine Waddams, Emeritus Professor, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia
Despina Alexiadou, Senior Lecturer at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde
Gavin Midgley, Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting, University of Surrey
Jim Watson, Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the Institute of Sustainable Resources, UCL
Karen Bloor, Professor of Health Economics and Policy, University of York
Karl Matikonis, Lecturer at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast
Steven McCabe, Associate Professor, Institute for Design, Economic Acceleration & Sustainability (IDEAS), Birmingham City University

Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 spring budget covers employment, energy, enterprise and much more besides. The plan has already been dubbed his “back to work budget”, although he has called it a “budget for growth”.

Hunt was appointed chancellor in a bid to calm financial markets after last year’s dramatic…

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