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In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.
27 June 2024
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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: IFS analysis

Event 28 October 2021 at 11:15 <p>This event will be streamed live to our website.</p>

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce his Autumn 2021 Budget and Spending Review on Wednesday 27 October. IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances, spending on public services, and the tax and the benefit system on the following day.

Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: IFS analysis

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced his Autumn 2021 Budget and Spending Review on Wednesday 27 October. IFS researchers presented their initial analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances, spending on public services, and the tax and the benefit system today, Thursday 28 October at a livestreamed press briefing.

28 October 2021

Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021

Collection

Impartial and rigorous analysis on the decisions facing the Chancellor as part of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review of 2021.

27 October 2021

Comparisons of school spending per pupil across the UK

Comment

In most of our analysis of education spending, we focus on spending in England to ensure comparability. In this observation, we expand our analysis to show the level and changes to school spending per pupil across the four nations of the UK.

22 October 2021

Three things to look out for in Rishi Sunak's Autumn Budget

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Rishi Sunak will outline his plans in his Autumn Budget. Isabel Stockton assesses which policy areas to look out for.

21 October 2021

SPECIAL: What should the Chancellor consider in his autumn budget?

Podcast

We look at the Chancellor's options for securing a lasting recovery and deliver on the government’s other objectives and priorities.

13 October 2021

Spending Review 2021: plans, promises and predicaments

Book Chapter

In this chapter, we look at the options and trade-offs for the Chancellor ahead of the forthcoming Spending Review.

12 October 2021

Outlook for the public finances

Book Chapter

Since the March Budget, encouraging early indicators on the recovery in consumer spending, the labour market and government revenues have led to an upwards revision in most economic forecasts.

12 October 2021

IFS Green Budget 2021

Presentation

The IFS Green Budget 2021, in association with Citi and with funding from the Nuffield Foundation, analysed the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, its economic legacy, and the big decisions confronting Chancellor Rishi Sunak as he prepares for his upcoming Budget and Spending Review.

12 October 2021

What’s happened and what’s next for councils?

Book Chapter

We examine what’s happened and what’s next for councils in England and Wales, focusing on the short-term financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the medium-term financial outlook, and planned and potential financial and service reforms over the next few years.

7 October 2021

Tax policies to help achieve net zero carbon emissions

Book Chapter

The UK is legally committed to reducing the net greenhouse gas emissions that arise from UK-based activities to zero by 2050. Achieving that target will require large shifts away from emissions-intensive activity from both consumers and producers.

2 October 2021

Employment and the end of the furlough scheme

Book Chapter

The government’s furlough scheme ended on 30 September. In many ways it has been very successful, albeit at a cost of almost £70 billion so far. While unemployment has risen and employment fallen since the start of the pandemic, the changes are nowhere near as dramatic as the falls in national income. As the furlough scheme comes to an end, a number of labour market challenges remain. We examine these challenges in detail and draw out key lessons for policymakers.

30 September 2021

New IFS student finance calculator shows: no easy choices for student finance reform

Comment

We have constructed a new student finance calculator, based on our detailed analysis of graduate earnings and the student finance system, which allows users to look at the effects of changing any parameter of the system.

20 September 2021

Complicated, costly and constantly changing: The childcare system in England

Comment

In this observation, we set out the key facts on how England’s childcare system is structured, how it has changed over time, and some of the pressures it faces over the course of the coming Spending Review.

13 September 2021

The mess of our present health and tax systems is a product of history

Comment

Our social care system is the unfinished business of 1946 and the direct descendant of the poor law of 1834; the decision to fund it through a levy is a throwback to a time when we had a social insurance system. And that’s the trouble. If you want a rational system for tax, welfare and public spending, best not to start from here.

13 September 2021

Pressures on the NHS

Book Chapter

In this chapter, we assess the NHS’s starting point, in terms of its funding, resources and performance on the eve of the pandemic. We then turn to the pandemic-related pressures on the NHS over the next few years, and assess the adequacy of the government’s latest funding announcement by comparing it with our assessments of the scale of NHS funding pressures.

10 September 2021

An ever-growing NHS budget could swallow up all of this week’s tax rise, leaving little for social care

Comment

If history repeats itself, the ‘temporary’ increases in NHS funding announced this week could end up permanently swallowing up the money raised by the tax rise, leaving little available for social care.

8 September 2021