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 ...

Last month, the government published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement, setting out funding allocations for English councils for the three years from 2026–27 to 2028–29. These ...

This was a big Budget, but not in the way people were necessarily expecting. Yes, there was a big tax rise: today’s £26 billion isn’t far short of last year’s £32 billion. Yes, there was an increase ...

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 ...

Responding to Nigel Farage's speech earlier today, IFS Deputy Director Helen Miller said: 'The broad thrust of Nigel Farage’s speech echoes Reform UK’s manifesto: very large tax cuts to be paid for ...

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