For the first time in over a decade, the NHS broadly stuck to its planned 2025-26 budget – but partly because hospital ...

Business rates are blamed for killing the high street. But would cutting them actually help shops and pubs - or simply make ...

We are pleased to announce that Sarah Cattan has been appointed as a Research Fellow at ADR UK.

We highlight the key theoretical predictions about rent controls and summarise what empirical research reveals about their ...

Fiscal Update from the Scottish Fiscal Commission (SFC) shows that taking funding for day-to-day spending and capital ...

The Reform UK proposals represent a substantially different vision of what the benefit system should be doing.

Join us as IFS researchers explore why UK electricity prices are so high, what is driving costs and what can be done to bring ...

Helen Miller, Director of IFS: “As a result of the VAT cut announced today, households will benefit from small cuts to their electricity bills. But the measure is not well targeted. If the goal is to ...

Max Warner, a Senior Research Economist at IFS, said: “Today, the government published the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan (DIP). As part of delivering the plan, it announced an average of £3.8 ...

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at IFS, said: ‘In a pattern familiar by now from several other manifestos in the devolved elections, the SNP manifesto pledges additional ...