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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Clara's interests lie in public and labour economics. She joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2021 while completing her Master of Science in Economics. In 2023, she earned the three-years IFS ...

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

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

Giulio is an IFS Research Associate and a professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His main research fields are theoretical labour economics and ...