The UK economy: A dashboard
This interactive dashboard shows data on economic growth, inflation, trade, employment, government borrowing and debt across the UK.
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Child Trust Funds & Junior ISA transferability (348KB PDF)
In 2024 the Library published a new briefing on child trust funds, focusing on challenges that have emerged with beneficiaries accessing their accounts, since they started to mature from 2020.
Originally called ‘baby bonds’ child trust funds are a financial endowment payable to every child at birth. This note looks at the history of the child trust fund regime up to the announcement that CTFs could be transferred into Junior ISAs and the subsequent decision to phase them out in 2011.
Documents to download
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Child Trust Funds & Junior ISA transferability (348KB PDF)
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Household debt: Economic indicators
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Credit unions
While credit unions play prominent roles in financial sectors across the Anglosphere and in Northern Ireland, in Great Britain penetration is low. This briefing looks at the reasons why and legislative efforts to make credit unions more popular.
