27 November 2006
Long-term opportunities and challenges in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review
As part of its preparations for the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07), the Government has examined the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade:
- demographic and socio-economic change, with rapid increases in the old age dependency ratio on the horizon and rising consumer expectations of public services;
- the intensification of cross-border economic competition, with new opportunities for growth, as the balance of international economic activity shifts toward emerging markets such as China and India;
- the rapid pace of innovation and technological diffusion, which will continue to transform the way people live and open up of new ways of delivering public services;
- continued global uncertainty with ongoing threats of international terrorism and conflict and the continued imperative to tackle global poverty; and
- increasing pressures on our natural resources and global climate, requiring action by governments, businesses, and individuals to maintain prosperity and improve environmental care.
A report 'Opportunities and Challenges for the UK: analysis for the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review" was published on 27 November 2006. It was produced after extensive consultation with experts across Whitehall, business, unions, NGOs, think tanks and academia.
It examines each set of trends in turn and explains how the Government will use the CSR as a key milestone in making further progress against its established long-term goals of sustainable growth and employment; fairness and opportunity; a secure and fair world; and modern and efficient public services in the new context of the decade ahead.
The document is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page.
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ISBN 978-1-84532-215-1 (1600KB)
