Public finances
How serious is the Government about its fiscal challenge?
Two big questions for the upcoming budget.
The challenge of the 2015 Spending Review
We unpack.
What can we learn from yesterday’s Treasury announcement about the coming Spending Review?
Julian McCrae thinks the numbers in the announcement may not be that comforting for the fiscal hawks.
How the 2015 Spending Review will differ from 2010
The Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies examine the challenges for the 2015 Spending Review.
The 2015 Budget and Spending Review: An IFS and IfG background briefing
The Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institute for Government teamed up for a briefing on the Budget and Spending Review.
To know the costs of manifesto promises, the OBR should be the first place we look
Allowing the Office for Budget Responsibility to certify opposition policy costings could inject much-needed clarity into the election campaign.
Key questions for the parties after the election
There will be life in office after May 7th, for someone.
Budget sweeteners and credit
There were a number of measures specifically targeted at specific geographies.
Rollercoaster or not, arguing over spending cuts is a pointless task
A row over how the OBR checks the figures.
Whitehall Monitor: deep impact?
In this special Whitehall Monitor report, we look at one element of the Coalition’s performance measurement regime: impact indicators.