Health spending, and the performance of the NHS, will feature prominently in the upcoming general election campaign …. Many different factors matter for NHS performance and for the wider health of the population, but one important factor is … the level of spending on health services. In this IFS pre-election briefing, we examine UK government health spending over …

Last month, the Chancellor set out additional funding for the National Health Service (NHS) in the Autumn Statement … of continued operational pressure on all parts of the NHS, and high inflation putting pressure on NHS budgets and staff … pay. In this report, the second part of the three-part series, we dig deeper into the resources available to the NHS and …

Scotland, behind spending on health. While councils rather than the Scottish Government itself determine how much to spend on … challenges and trade-offs facing policymakers in Scotland over the next few years, including for this and future Budget cycles …

Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types of benefits - incapacity benefits (for those … 'health-related' benefits - and official projections suggest that claimant numbers will rise further still. This report …

Given that education policy is a devolved matter across the UK, a natural question to ask is how school spending per …

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". …

The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could …