The Decision Maker Panel has received significant media interest, having featured in outlets such as the Financial Times, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Independent – to name a few
“UK firms have said they expect to increase prices more quickly as they come under pressure from surging energy prices linked to the Iran war, according to Bank of England data. The Decision Maker Panel (DMP) survey showed that firms expected to increase their prices by 3.5% over the next 12 months, according to data for the three months to March. The survey said this pointed to firms adjusting their expectations as a result of the recent increases in energy prices”.
Independent, April 2026: Firms Predict Faster Increases in Prices Amid Middle East Conflict

2026
Bloomberg, April 2026: Bank of England Surveys Suggest Energy Shock isn’t Fueling Wages
Reuters, April 2026: UK Companies Ramp Up Selling Price Expectations, Bank of England Survey Shows
Reuters, April 2026: UK Firms Report Biggest Jump in Price Expectations in Nearly Two Years, BoE Survey Shows
Independent, April 2026: Firms Predict Faster Increases in Prices Amid Middle East Conflict
Financial Times, April 2026: Bank of England Divided Over How to Tackle Energy-induced Inflation
The Times, March 2026: The UK is Right to Reset its Relationship With the EU
Guardian, March 2026: Rachel Reeves Reveals Push for Fiscal Devolution to English regions, says Brexit Caused Damage, and Admits Student Loan System is ‘Broken’ – as it Happened
Bloomberg, March 2026: UK Price Pressures Were Easing Before Iran War, BOE Survey Finds
Fortune, February 2026: Thousands of CEOs Just Admitted AI had no Impact on Employment or Productivity and it has Economists Resurrecting a Paradox from 40 years ago
Economist, February 2026: The AI Productivity Boom is Not Here (Yet)
Bloomberg, February 2026: Bank of England to Hold Interest Rates as Caution Reigns: Decision Guide
Reuters, February 2026: British Firms’ Wage Growth Expectations Cool Slightly, BoE Survey shows
Financial Times, January 2026 : Don’t be Fooled – Everything Has Changed for Global Economy
Reuters, January 2026 : UK Firms Trim Wage Expectations But Inflation Pressures Remain
Bloomberg, January 2026 : UK Firms’ Price, Wage Expectations Edge Down in BOE Survey
2025
The Economist, December 2025: Britain And The EU Should Be Bolder In Getting Closer
The Economist, December 2025: Brexit Has Deepened The British Economy’s Flaws And Dulled Its Strengths
Bloomberg, December 2025: Brexit Hit To UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
The Times, December 2025: Brexit Made Us Poorer And It’s Getting Worse
Financial Times, December 2025: UK Must Do More Than Go On Muddling Through
The Business Times – Singapore, December 2025: UK Pay Growth Accelerates to Five-Month High, Recruiters Say
Bloomberg, December 2025: Economists Judge Brexit Bill To be Worse Than Ever Just as Politics Is Shifting
The New York Times, December 2025: Britain’s Struggles Are America’s Future
The Guardian, December 2025: Britain Is Stuck With A Failed Brexit That Neither Citizens Nor Leaders Want. Here Are Three Ways To Fix That
Reuters, December 2025: UK Firms to Cut Jobs But Raise Prices, BoE Survey Shows
Financial Times, December 2025: UK Businesses Cut Jobs at Fastest Pace since 2021 While Builders Report Steep Downturn
Financial Times, November 2025: How To Get The UK Out Of Its Economic Hole
The Observer, November 2025: Rachel Reeves Is In A Budget Double Bind
Bloomberg, November 2025: Brexit hit to UK Economy double the official estimate, study finds
The Times, November 2025: We Brexiteers Must Acknowledge The Costs Of Leaving Europe
Bloomberg, November 2025: BOE’s Mann Says Firms’ Pricing Points to ‘Upside’ Inflation Risk
Reuters, November 2025: UK companies’ job sentiment hits 5-year low, BoE survey shows
Financial Times, October 2025: Central Banks Need To Learn Lessons About Supply Shocks
Reuters, August 2025: UK Inflation Heat Puts Bank of England Back In The Spotlight
Bloomberg, September 2025: UK Wages Are Growing at Weakest Pace Since Covid, Survey Finds
Bloomberg, September 2025: UK Firms Cut Jobs At Fastest Pace Since 2021, BoE Survey shows
Reuters, September 2025: UK Firms Report Biggest Drop In Employment Since 2021 in BoE Survey
The Guardian, September 2025: UK Businesses Cut Jobs At Fastest Pace In Four Years Over Summer, Bank of England Finds
Financial Times, September 2025: UK Businesses Cut Jobs At Fastest Pace Since 2021, BoE Survey Shows
Financial Times, August 2025: Business Chiefs More Gloomy On UK Economy Than Any Time Since 2016
Bloomberg, July 2025: Surveys Show UK Economy Rebounding From Labour Taxes, US Tariffs
Reuters, June 2025: British Firms Shrug Off US tariffs, BoE Survey Shows
Bloomberg, April 2025: UK Inflation Expectations Stay Elevated in Headache for BOE
The Times, April 2025: UK Interest Rates Held at 4.5% By Bank of England
The Times, April 2025: Can Companies Absorb The National Insurance Increase?
Reuters, February 2025: UK Firms Trim Wage Growth Expectations, BoE Survey Shows
Reuters, January 2025: UK Firms To Raise Prices And Cut Jobs After Tax Hike, BoE Survey Shows
2024
The Telegraph, December 2024: Half Of Firms To Slash Jobs And Raise Prices After Budget
Financial Times, December 2024: Survey Finds 54% Of Companies Plan To Raise Prices In 2025 After National Insurance Increase
Guardian, November 2024: Bank of England’s Lombardelli: Too Early To Declare Victory On Inflation
The Times: November 2024: UK Economy: Inflation Will Be Higher In A Year, Firms Predict
Reuters: October 2024: Bank of England Could Become ‘More Aggressive’ On Rate Cuts, Bailey Says
Bloomberg: September 2024: Firms Expect To Raise Prices By The Least In Three Years
Reuters: September 2024: UK Firms Expect Selling Process Pressure To Cool
Economist, August 2024: Why Companies Get Inflation Wrong
Financial Times, August 2024: Transcript: The Case For Holding Rates, With Catherine Mann
Reuters, August 2024: UK Firms Scale Back Expected Wage Growth, BoE Survey Shows
Bloomberg, July 2024: Labour’s Minimum Wage Plan Becomes Concern For BOE And Business
Bloomberg, July 2024: Bailey’s Silent Treatment Stokes BOE August Rate-Cut Suspense
Bloomberg, July 2024: Bank of England Tilted Toward First Rate Cut Since Pandemic
Financial Times, June 2024: Bank of England’s Survey Provides Ammunition for Hawks To Vote Against A June Rate Cut
Bloomberg, May 2024: Bank of England’s Broadbent Says UK Interest Rates May Drop This Summer
Financial Times, April 2024: UK Wage Growth Expectations Fall To 2-Year Low
Financial Times, February 2024: Work From Home If You Want but Don’t Expect A Pay Rise
Investment Week, February 2024: UK Businesses Forecast Price Inflation Drops Throughout 2024
The Times, January 2024: Interest Rates Will Stay High Until the Pay Juggernaut Slows Down
2023
Investors’ Chronicle, September 2023: What the Bank of England Does Next
Reuters, September 2023: UK Businesses Plan Lowest Price Rises Since Feb 2022: BoE
Bloomberg, September 2023: UK Firms Expect to Raise Prices at Slowest Pace Since 2021
The Guardian, September 2023: Now Even The Bank Of England Admits Greedflation Is A Thing
Financial Times, September 2023: UK Businesses’ Inflation And Wage Expectations Ease In August
Financial Times, September 2023: Time For The UK To Tax Inflation
Bloomberg, August 2023: UK Firms Become More Positive on Inflation as Expectations Fall
Reuters, August 2023: UK Firms Dial Back Price And Wage Growth Expectations, Bank Of England Says
FX Street, July 2023: BoE DMP Survey: UK Firms See Year-Ahead CPI Inflations Sharply Down To 4.8% In Aug
ING, June 2023: Why the Bank Of England Is Unlikely To Push Back Against Lofty Interest Rate Expectations
Bloomberg, June 2023: New BOE Rate Setter Greene Says Policymakers Should Focus on Medium Term
BNN Bloomberg, June 2023: UK Bond Yields Rise as Mann Warns on Persistent Inflation
ING, June 2023: Sticky UK Wage Growth Means No Rate Cuts For The Bank Of England Until 2024
Financial Times, June 2023: Finance Chiefs Expect Inflation Burden To Ease
Reuters, June 2023: UK Firms Plan Lower Price Rises In Next 12 Months: BoE Survey
Financial Post, June 2023: UK Firms Plan Lower Price Rises In Next 12 Months: BoE Survey
Bloomberg, June 2023: UK Mortgage Lending Unexpectedly Falls After Interest Rate Hikes
ING, May 2023: Bank of England: Four Scenarios For The May Meeting
Reuters, May 2023: UK Companies See Cooler Wage Growth And Inflation, Bank Of England Survey Shows
Bloomberg, May 2023: BOE Rate Hike Looks More Likely With UK Economy Showing Resilience
Financial Times, March 2023: Who’s To Blame For Sticky Prices?
Reuters, March 2023: UK Wage Data Supports Final BoE Hike Next Week
Bloomberg, March 2023: UK Pound Could Weaken Further, Warns BOE’s Catherine Mann
Financial Times, March 2023: UK Businesses Expect Inflation And Costs To Ease But Wages To Stay High
Bloomberg, March 2023: BOE Should Rethink Route to 2% Inflation, NatWest’s Davies Says
Reuters, March 2023: UK Businesses Plan Smallest Price Rises In A Year: BoE Survey
Financial Times, March 2023: UK Businesses Under Pressure As Wage Growth Rises Again
Bloomberg, February 2023: UK Finance Chiefs’ Price Fears Cooled Significantly, Says BOE
The Washington Post, January 2023: UK Firms Don’t Want to Talk About You-Know-What
Bloomberg, January 2023: UK Firms Don’t Want to Talk About You-Know-What
Financial Times, January 2023: UK Businesses Cut Investment As Interest Rates Rise, BoE Survey Finds
Bloomberg, January 2023: BOE Says Outlook for Inflation and Wages Worsens for Businesses
2022
Financial Times, October 2022: UK Businesses Predict Record Price Rises Will Offset Higher Wage Bills
Reuters, October 2022: UK Business Inflation Expectations Rise In September – BoE
FXStreet, October 2022: BOE Survey: UK Business Inflation Expectations Keep Rising In September
DailyFX, October 2022: BOE Survey: FTSE 100 Retreats as Sentiment Suffers on Fitch Downgrade and BoE Survey
Bloomberg, September 2022: Truss’s Energy Aid Boost for UK Mid-Caps May Prove Short-Lived
Bloomberg, September 2022: British Executives See High Inflation Lingering for Three Years
BNN Bloomberg, September 2022: Christmas Hiring Drives Job Vacancies in Britain to a New High
FXStreet, September 2022: BOE Survey: UK Business Inflation Expectations Rise in August
Nasdaq, September 2022: UK Business Inflation Expectations Rise In August – BoE
Reuters, September 2022: Rising Inflation Expectations Pressure Bank of England
Financial Times, July 2022: BoE Under Pressure As UK Companies Plan For Extended Period Of Inflation
Financial Times, March 2022: UK Businesses Expect Prices To Soar In The Coming Year
Financial Times, January 2022: BoE Policymaker Hints At More Interest Rate Rises In The Coming Months
Sunday Times, January 2022: David Smith: How WFH Averted A Bigger Economic Catastrophe
Financial Times, January 2022: UK Business Confidence Takes A Sharp Hit From Omicron
2021
Financial Times, December 2021: Bank of England Seeks To Prove It Is In The ‘Price Stability Business’
Reuters, December 2021: UK firms Struggle to Find Staff, See Higher Inflation – BoE Survey
The Times, November 2021: Can a Four-Day Week Be The Key To Solving The Productivity Puzzle?
Financial Times, October 2021: Treating Companies Mean Will Not Keep Them Keen
EconomicsUK.com, April 2021: Pluses And Minuses Of The Return To Business As Usual
The Times, April 2021: Pluses And Minuses Of The Return To Business As Usual
Insider, April 2021: America’s Best Work-From-Home Expert Is Bracing For Turmoil
The Times, March 2021: Can Go-Karts and Ski Slopes Save Town Centres?
The Guardian, March 2021: Our Research Shows Working From Home Works, In Moderation
EconomicsUK.com, March 2021: Now the Economy Braces For The Shock of The New Normal
2020
The Times, November 2021: Can a Four-Day Week Be The Key To Solving The Productivity Puzzle?
Financial Times, December 2020: UK Services Activity Better Than Expected, Despite New Covid Curbs
Bloomberg, November 2020: BOE’s Ramsden Says Unclear if Vaccine Warrants Boost to Forecast
Reuters, November 2020: Bank of England’s Ramsden Sees Plus For Economy From Vaccine News
The Telegraph, November 2020: Third of Hotels and Restaurants Fear Collapse Over ‘Tough Winter’
The Wall Street Journal, September 2020: The Stock Market Barely Faltered in the 1918-20 Pandemic. Is History Repeating Itself?
Financial Times, August 2020: Central Bankers Grapple with Changed Landscape at Jackson Hole
The New York Times, August 2020: As Uncertainty Threatens U.S. Growth, Fed Seeks More Firepower
The Sunday Times, August 2020: V, W or Aarrgh? It Depends on the Virus – And Jobs
The Times, August 2020: New Thinking For a New Normal: Embrace Change or Be Left Behind
Sunday Times, June 2020: The Floor’s The Limit – We Must Avoid Negative Interest Rates
Chicago Booth Review, April 2020: The US economy Could Contract 11 Percent in 2020
Financial Times, March 2020: Bank of England Warns of ‘Very Sharp’ Economic Downturn
New York Times, March 2020: More Firms Expect Brexit Uncertainty to Stretch Into 2021: Bank of England
Reuters, March 2020: More firms expect Brexit uncertainty to stretch into 2021: Bank of England
Action Forex, March 2020: 76% of UK firms expect Brexit uncertainty to persist until at least 2021
Nasdaq, March 2020: More firms expect Brexit uncertainty to stretch into 2021 – Bank of England
Markets Insider, March 2020: BoE Survey Shows More Firms See Brexit Uncertainty Lasting Until At Least 2021
Financial Times, February 2020: Business Investment Expected To Pick Up As Brexit Begins To Clear
Financial Times, January 2020: Is The UK Set For a Brexit Bounce?
Financial Times, January 2020: Will the Bank of England Cut Interest Rates?
The Times, January 2020: David Smith: Hoping For The Best on Brexit and World Trade
Independent, January 20202: Brexit: Four in 10 Firms Still Think Uncertainty Will Not Be Resolved in 2020
Financial Post, January 2020: UK Businesses Report Fall in Brexit Uncertainty In Dec – BoE Survey
MoneyAge, January 2020: Brexit Continues to Cause Uncertainty Amongst UK Businesses
The Telegram, January 2020: UK Companies Turn a Little Less Gloomy Over Brexit Impact – BoE Survey
Financial Times, January 2020: UK Hit by Sharpest Deterioration in Manufacturing in 7 Years
Independent, January 2020: Brexit Uncertainty Lifted Slightly for Business Leaders – Survey
Forexlive, January 2020: Cable gives back some of the late-year gains
Belfast Telegraph, January 2020: Brexit Uncertainty Lifted Slightly for Business Leaders – Survey
Bloomberg, January 2020: U.K. Election Result Reduces Companies’ Brexit Uncertainty
The Guardian, January 2020: Business Hope Fading for Brexit Clarity in 2020, Bank Says
The Sun, January 2020: Election Booster, Print Only (p. 47)
Evening Express, January 2020: Brexit Uncertainty Lifted Slightly for Business Leaders – Survey
2019
Bloomberg, November 2019: UK Businesses Put Probability of Brexit Deal in 2020 Below 50%
Reuters, November 2019: Brexit Impasse Takes its Toll on British Business Investment
The New York Times, November 2019: Brexit Impasse Takes its Toll on British Business Investment
The Telegraph, October 2019: Businesses Tell Westminster to ‘Get It Sorted’ on Brexit as Investment Spending Lags
Investors Chronicle, October 2019: Brexit: Trick or Treat?
Wall Street Journal, October 2019: Financial Markets Face Fresh Wave of Political Uncertainty: ‘There’s Literally Nowhere To Hide’
The Australian, October 2019: Brexit Fatigue Huirting British Business
The NBER Digest, October 2019: Brexit Uncertainty is Taking It’s Toll on The British Economy
The Telegraph, October 2019: UK Damaged ‘Speed Limit’ for Growth Could Hamper Bank of England Lowering Rates Says Deputy Governor
The Spectator, October 2019: Why Ken Fisher Thinks Brexiting Should be Bullish
The Economist, October 2019: Uncertainty About Brexit is Hampering Business Investment in Britain
Fortune, October 2019: ‘Nobody Knows What to Do:’ How 3 Years of Brexit Uncertainty Has Paralysed British Business
Financial Times, October 2019: Fall in UK Labour Productivity is Worst in 5 Years
The Telegraph, October 2019: Economy Takes £20bn Hit From Business Investment Plunge Since Brexit Vote
Bloomberg, October 2019: Productivity Suffers as UK Managers Focus on Brexit Readiness
Financial Times, September 2019: Entrenched Uncertainty is a Global Problem
Independent, September 2019: Brexit if Hurting the UK Productivity, and Wages With It
Financial Times, August 2019: Brexit Has Cut Productivity by up to 5% says Bank of England
Reuters, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
The Daily Mail, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
The New York Times, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
2018
LexisNexis, December 2018: Weekly Highlights LexisNexis
AccountancyAge, December 2018: Brexit Forecasts Helping of Hindering?
The Times, December 2018: Be braced for more chaos, but give thanks to the Bank
EY ITEM Club, July 2018: Will the clouds clear for the economy?
GLA Economics, July 2018: London’s Economy Today
Bloomberg, June 2018: Businesses Are Getting More Pessimistic Over Brexit
The Times, June 2018: Brexit pessimism is growing, agents find
The Daily Mail, June 2018: Two thirds of British businesses do not see Brexit as a major cause for concern to the economy
Market News, June 2018: MNI: BOE Agents: Headcount Seen Falling In Consumer Sector
Reuters, June 2018: UK consumer economy slows, manufacturing perks up in BoE, EU surveys
The Guardian, April 2018: For British bosses a bigger headache than Brexit is emerging
ICAEW, April 2018: Brexit’s role in global growth trends
MNI, March 2018: Downside Infla Risks Cloud BOE Rate Rise Message
2017
The Sunday Times, December 2017: Only An End to Uncertainty Will Lift All Our Spirits
Financial Times, December 2017: Labour Shortage Fears Could Drive Up Pay
UK and EU, November 2017: The Cost of Brexit Related Uncertainty
Financial Times, September 2017: Business Fears Brexit Will Hit Sales, Study Finds
Market News International, September 2017: BOE CFO Survey: Brexit A Downside Risk But Firms Staying Put
Financial Post, August 2017: London Losing Status With Financial Firms As Brexit Approaches