This wasn’t the spending and investment bonanza that the speech, its supporters and detractors all seem to want to suggest.

This year's RES Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities with key IFS contributors to ...

The chancellor has pledged an extra £1.2 billion annually for FE by 2028-29. But will this be enough to reverse a decade of ...

Which public services are the relative winners and losers from Rachel Reeves’ multi-year 2025 Spending Review?

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is ...

New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than ...

The income threshold below which pensioners will be eligible for the winter fuel payment (WFP) is set to rise.

Expanded access to free school meals will benefit 1.7 million children in the long run, but existing transitional protections ...

Rachel Reeves is to allocate between competing priorities with her spending review, and a 2.5 per cent rise for health could ...

The UK state pension system faces significant challenges given the country’s ageing population, but it is crucial for ...

We consider recent trends in health and social care productivity and the scope for future improvements.

Agar is a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice and a Research Fellow of the IFS. She has investigated the behaviour of individuals and household both in the area of consumption and ...