yael selfin is with us, chief economist at kpmg. is in the speech has been widely telegraphed. what is the government planning to do? we have seen quite a lot of clamour for additional spending, and it‘s probably overdue in some ways, and we are expecting more spending on education, and infrastructure as well, other things like prevention of crime, and we have already had additional spending on the nhs, so it is likely to stay as strong as what we have seen already. a lot has been said about the amount of money this government will spend if it gets these bills through parliament, that has a big effort, they haven‘t got the majority. but it is a lot of money, the most spending we have seen for 15 years of the institute for fiscal studies warning last week of the level of debt that this will bring. what are your thoughts on that? how dangerous is that at this particular time? very interesting, because we are in an era where interest rates are low and likely to remain low for much longer, so it is a good opportunity for us to spend mor

yael selfin is chief economist at kpmg.worse. we have also seen a reduction in output due to the destocking effect and that didn‘t reflect itself in hours worked. we had more negative contributions to productivity there. it could all be temporary. businesses are stockpiling ahead of a exit from the eu. did any sectors contribute positively to eu productivity —— to productivity? a relatively strong contribution from construction, that was mainly because we had less hours worked rather than a big boost in output because we have seen in the pmi service as well that construction is not doing that well. in terms of employment, we have seen less in that sector. in other business stories we‘ve been following, barclays has promised to freeze closures of any braches which are ‘last in town‘ and in remote areas for two years. it says it is "committed" to its relationship with the post office because customers will still be able to deposit cash. but the payment systems regulator, which overseas the cash system, says the decision "redu