This wasn’t the spending and investment bonanza that the speech, its supporters and detractors all seem to want to suggest.

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

New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than ...

The chancellor has pledged an extra £1.2 billion annually for FE by 2028-29. But will this be enough to reverse a decade of ...

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

Responding to today’s Spending Review, Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS, said: “To make sense of today’s Spending Review, you need to understand what the government is calling Phase One and Phase Two ...

IFS Director Paul Johnson responds to the Chancellor's Spending Review.