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

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

Spending Review 2025 will set detailed departmental budgets for most of this parliament. We examine the key choices facing ...

This report explores options for incorporating administrative records on graduate earnings into the OfS’ regulation of higher ...

Updated forecasts for tax revenues and benefit spending imply a more challenging funding outlook for the Scottish Government.

At the Spending Review on 11th June, the government will set out detailed spending plans for individual departments for the next three years. These will determine how much will be spent on the NHS, ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

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 ...

Paul Johnson, IFS Director, said: “The Liberal Democrats want to top up existing spending plans so that the state remains at around its current size, relative to national income - and hence ...

Early education and childcare can have a critical impact both on helping children to develop and in supporting parents (especially mothers) to work. But childcare can also have a significant impact on ...

Areas in England vary in how much funding they receive for public services, and in how much they would need to spend to deliver the same level of services to their populations. For example, an area ...