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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

With America stepping back from international tax cooperation, are discussions on reallocation of taxing rights (Pillar 1) now doomed? What are the implications for unilateral measures such as digital ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

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

The Crown Court case backlog has doubled since 2019 and continues to grow. We explore whether falling productivity is part of ...