This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...

This paper examines the flow of funds for social security, health, education and housing services in the UK. It looks at the changing routes by which tax and other revenues fund such services; allocation of these funds, in particular the implications of the growth of decentralisation and...

This article summarizes the analysis and recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, which reported in November 2005. The UK faces similar demographic challenges to other nations from increasing longevity and past fertility declines. However, in the face of them, both state and private...