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How important is the OBR forecast?
The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast.
12 February 2025

Change in selected departmental capital budgets since 2007–08
The Ministry of Justice saw the biggest cuts to its capital budget over the 2010s, but then has seen the largest relative increases since.
11 February 2025

What is this government’s ‘theory of growth’? Nobody knows
"Shifting the performance of an entire economy requires a long-term, consistent and persistent direction." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.
20 January 2025
Policy analysis

Scottish school spending, teachers and pupil numbers
Scotland’s schools are relatively well funded. Falling pupil rolls and workforce planning represent both challenges and opportunities going forwards.
14 February 2025

Cumulative capital spending by selected departments, 2007–08 to 2025–26, relative to counterfactual of spending remaining constant at the 2007–08 real-terms level
The cumulative amount of investment in the justice system has been less than if the Ministry of Justice had fared as well as the average department.
11 February 2025

MoJ budget as a per cent of total departmental spending, and total departmental spending excluding health
The Ministry of Justice's share of non-health departmental spending has fallen from around 4.5% in the early 2000s to around 3.5% today.
11 February 2025
Academic research

Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents
1 February 2023

The impact of area level mental health interventions on outcomes for secondary school pupils: Evidence from the HeadStart programme in England
13 October 2022

Prioritization, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed health care system
16 June 2022