Press releases

By age 32, nearly 6 in 10 (59%) of workers from outside London who were in the top 5% of GCSE scores have moved away from their home town.

This year's RES Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities with key IFS contributors to the review.

The Crown Court of England and Wales – the court that deals with the most serious offences – had around 75,000 outstanding cases at the end of 2024. 

At its first multi-year Spending Review on 11 June, the government will set day-to-day departmental and investment budgets.

The upcoming Spending Review is likely to involve cuts to many public service budgets. 

The broad thrust of Nigel Farage’s speech echoes Reform UK’s manifesto: very large tax cuts to be paid for with very large spending cuts. 

Over the long run, Sure Start’s financial benefits could be twice as high as its costs

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

Have increases in NHS waiting lists and waiting times contributed to the growing number of  people claiming working-age health-related benefits? 

New research calculates measures of average household consumption for every local authority in Great Britain.

We are pleased to announce the 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, taking place in London, UK, on September 25-26, 2025. 

Private sector employees are increasingly accumulating retirement savings in ‘defined contribution’ (DC) pensions.

Our new report finds that a major recent revision by the ONS to official estimates of household wealth is fundamentally flawed. 

The government will more likely than not miss this NHS 18-week waiting time target. 

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.

The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has renewed its support for the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP).

Mental health has worsened since the pandemic. This is consistent with rising disability benefit claims for mental health. 

One key question is whether those forecasts put the Chancellor on track to miss her fiscal rules. This is by no means guaranteed.

The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) failed to achieve its ultimate aims of improving educational attainment and labour market outcomes.