The Spring Forecast is unlikely to feature policy changes but could highlight risks to the public finances for the year ahead ...

We estimate the economic impacts of rape using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions.

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ONS figures released today show borrowing in the first 10 months of the year is £15 billion below the same months last year.

Why UK fiscal rules drive “headroom” politics, policy churn and rising debt, and how a dashboard approach could improve sustainability and debate.

This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health ...

This was another big Budget. The Treasury’s scorecard contained seventy-five separate new measures. There were meaningful increases in tax, spending, and borrowing. I’ll leave my colleagues to walk ...

At the 2023 Spring Budget, then-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the largest-ever expansion of publicly funded childcare entitlements, offering new entitlements for working families with children aged ...

We document “Cheapflation”: within defined categories, prices rise fastest for low-quality essentials, disproportionately affecting poorer household.

The government spent around £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of national income, on our behalf in 2023-24. This was composed of different categories of spending - e.g. health, education, and benefit spending - ...

The government will shortly be considering whether to bring forward the following rise to age 68, which is currently scheduled for 2044. There is nothing wrong in principle with these rises. They ...