Incisive commentary from the IfG’s expert team on issues facing government and key ministerial decisions.
From analysis of key political events such as budgets and party conferences to snap responses to unexpected developments such as government reshuffles, our writers set out their views and analyse what government gets right, what it gets wrong, and what it can do better.
A bumpy road ahead for fracking
Infrastructure policy will struggle without the right institutions to support it.
The Government should give a realistic commitment to Agile
Matt Hancock, is right that the civil service should become more “agile” but this is easier said than done.
Are we about to see an era of experimental government?
Jen Gold takes a look.
Cutting the onshore wind subsidy
Four things to consider.
We didn’t start the FOIA
Freedom of information requests in the final quarter of the Coalition.
No contest – the time has come to ditch or reboot the Ministerial Contestable Policy Fund
It has been a damp squib – failing to improve either policy or transparency.
Meet the new select committee chairs
The results of the elections for Select Committee chairs in the 2015-2020 Parliament have just been announced. Gavin Freeguard and Hannah White report
Civil Service staff numbers under the Coalition government, 2010 to 2015
We look at the latest numbers.
Continuity of ministers in the new government
Staying (in) power?
Purdah and the role of the Civil Service in an EU referendum
Catherine Haddon explains the debate.