The government has today published a long-awaited consultation on reform of the local government funding system in England.

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

IFS Senior Research Economist Kate Ogden writes in Municipal Journal about what the 2025 Spending Review will mean for public ...

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

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

Delays in serious court cases are at record highs. We ask why the Crown Court backlog is growing—and if more money alone can solve it.

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

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 ...

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 ...