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 …

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 …

This "explainer" looks at how the parties' proposals would affect Scotland and Wales, covering tax, spending, public …

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 …