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Downing Street

Mini-Budget 2022 and follow-up

Collection
Analysis of the government's tax and spending plans - and follow-up - announced as part of the mini-Budget.

17 October 2022

Emergency ambulance

Public spending, pay and pensions

Report
The public sector pay settlements announced this July will pose severe budgetary challenges for many areas of government.

8 October 2022

Police officers on patrol

The inflation squeeze on public services

Comment
Higher inflation squeezes public service budgets and makes government spending plans less generous than originally intended. How much less generous?

10 August 2022

Police officers

The future of public sector pensions

Podcast
We sit down with one of the architects behind the current public pensions system and discuss whether it is sustainable or needs further reform.

13 July 2022

Ambulance

Pay compression in the NHS (and beyond)

Comment
Since 2010, more experienced and higher-paid workers in the NHS have experienced the largest pay cuts. This has compressed the pay distribution.

1 June 2022

Teacher

The long, long squeeze on teacher pay

Comment

At the last election, the Conservative Party manifesto committed to increasing teacher starting salaries in England to £30,000 per year by September 2022. However, to ease pressure on school budgets and the public finances, the government has now announced a freeze on teacher pay levels in England for September 2021, and pushed back starting salaries of £30,000 to September 2023.

23 July 2021