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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The government has announced that it will expand eligibility to free school meals to all children in England whose families receive Universal Credit, removing the current £7,400 household income cap.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...