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

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

Responding to Nigel Farage's speech earlier today, IFS Deputy Director Helen Miller said: 'The broad thrust of Nigel Farage’s speech echoes Reform UK’s manifesto: very large tax cuts to be paid for ...

The Government has today announced a series of public sector pay awards for those covered by the Pay Review Body process.

Sure Start was the first large government initiative to provide area-based holistic support to families with children under the age of 5 in England. It did so through a network of ‘one-stop shops’, ...

This is no doubt why the existing policy tied WFP eligibility to PC – those households getting PC are known to have low ...

The 'Be the Chancellor' tool, built by IFS researchers in partnership with Nesta, illustrates key choices and fiscal ...

This week will see significant increases to both minimum wages and employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) take effect. The National Living Wage (NLW), which applies to those aged 21 or over, ...

Ben Zaranko, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies said: "If the UK needs to spend more on defence on a structural and permanent basis, that is not something that can be sustainably ...

At just under £8 billion, spending on schools and childcare is the second-largest area of public service spending in Scotland, behind spending on health. While councils rather than the Scottish ...

The government has published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025–26, setting out funding allocations for English councils next year. This confirms an important shift in grant ...

Let’s start with the plaudits. Chancellors faced with the sort of tough public finance situation that Rachel Reeves has inherited have tended to take an axe to investment. That happened in the 1990s.