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unhappy with the system. Council tax bands in England are still based on property values in April 1991 - almost 30 years ago … and reforming council tax on different local authorities (LAs) and different household types in England. This is in the …
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seven years of retrenchment in public service spending in Wales, in stark contrast to the first ten years of devolution … UK economic fiscal context and explores the implications for Wales. In particular, it examines the changes in Welsh …
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government continued to want to balance its budget. Wales is therefore looking at an extraordinary ten or more years of … the independent Wales Public Services 2025 Programme based at Cardiff Business School, looking at the challenges facing … government in Wales at they set their tax and spending policies. It also predicts the UK economic and fiscal situation …
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The UK is part-way through almost unprecedented real-terms reductions in government expenditure as the government attempts to deal with the large hole in the public finances. As part of this, the UK government has announced and is in the process of implementing £18 billion of cuts to welfare...
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Given that education policy is a devolved matter across the UK, a natural question to ask is how school spending per pupil differs across the four nations of the UK. In this short report, we show how school spending per pupil has changed across the four nations of the UK over time. We also...
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This "explainer" looks at how the parties' proposals would affect Scotland and Wales, covering tax, spending, public …
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Council tax bands in Wales are based on property values in April 2003 - 17 years ago. That is more up to date than in … England and Scotland, where they are based on values in April 1991 (almost 30 years ago!). But it is still enough time for the … prices had doubled since 2003 across Wales as a whole by the end of 2019, those in Blaenau Gwent had risen 171% compared with …
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The next wave of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data will be published in December 2023. This will relate to PISA tests taken in 2022, the first wave of data after the COVID-19 pandemic. In advance of these new data, this report seeks to take stock of performance to date...
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Are the provision and the extent of work-related training in the UK affected by the amount of job-to-job mobility among the work-force? Conversely, does receiving different types of work-related training make employees more or less likely to move jobs? This report examines both these questions...
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