Downloads
![Image representing the file: comm71.pdf](/sites/default/files/output_url_files/comm71.pdf_0.jpg)
comm71.pdf
PDF | 2.54 MB
This commentary assesses the impact of capping on local service provision. In particular it addresses the following questions. What factors determine desired local spending? Did capping constrain spending by local councils? Which local services bore the brunt of any cuts? Did the quality of local services suffer as a result?
Authors
![Carl Emmerson](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Carl_Emmerson.jpg?itok=6jM06LTY)
Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
John Hall
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
Research Fellow University of Bristol
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/co.ifs.1998.0071
- ISBN
- 978-1-873357-82-8
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
C, Emmerson and J, Hall and F, Windmeijer. (1998). The impact of capping on local service provision. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/impact-capping-local-service-provision (accessed: 30 June 2024).
More from IFS
Understand this issue
![Ariel view of an English town](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-06/english%20town%20feature.jpg?itok=ri4Ol6m1)
Cuts to council services likely unless cost pressures abate – even with the biggest council tax increases for 20 years
21 June 2024
![Bins on a street](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-05/bins%20on%20street%20feature.jpg?itok=TYtPJEi2)
Council funding is a numbers game in which everybody is losing
13 May 2024
![New block of flats](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-06/block-of-flats.jpg?itok=dBLlRv-M)
Council tax needs urgent reform – not being frozen in time in 1991
6 June 2024
Policy analysis
![Rural town](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-05/Uk%20rural%20town%20feature.jpg?itok=LRUo40qR)
Conservative plans to abolish the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to help fund a new National Service scheme would hit poorest parts of the UK
29 May 2024
![Holyrood, Edinburgh](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-02/Holyrood-government-building.jpg?itok=EUnRAJxH)
The IFS Scottish Budget Report – 2024–25
22 February 2024
![Central Edinburgh](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-02/Edinburgh%20feature.jpg?itok=MEbRaYsA)
Scottish Budget: Tax and spending in 2024–25
6 February 2024
Academic research
![Journal Article Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-03/Fiscal%20Studies%20-%202023%20Vol%2044%2C%20Issue%202_Page_1_0.jpg?itok=mnZSeyzY)
Unfunded mandates and taxation
14 March 2024
![Parking meter](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-08/Parking%20meter.jpg?itok=F4HMTLP8)
What’s happened and what’s next for councils?
7 October 2021
![Journal graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2022-06/IFS-journal-graphic.png?itok=H2wvbfa9)
Financing local police spending in England and Wales: fiscal federalism in practice
Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have been able to raise revenues locally to supplement grants from central government.
21 February 2020