Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...

We document the patterns of neighbourhood and secondary school segregation across England and Scotland.

We analyse the impact of the possible approaches to council tax reform set out in the Welsh Government's consultation on "A fairer council tax".

Our sixth annual report on education spending shows changes over time across different stages of education, as well as geographic differences.

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...

How much funding does each area of England receive for key public services, and is this funding allocated in line with patterns of needs?

In January 2020, the UK government formally announced its intention to create a number of Freeports across the UK, with the aim of promoting job creation and regeneration, boosting trade, investment and innovation, and supporting the 'levelling up' agenda. The Freeports offer various tax and...

How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives geographic inequalities within Scotland?