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20 Sep 17
Scrapping the 1% pay increase cap for public sector workers could cost the Treasury £6bn a year by 2019/20, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies research.
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15 Sep 17
Councils have expressed concern about their ability to provide quality services in the next five years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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19 Jul 17
London is the most unequal part of the UK, but has become somewhat more equal since the 2008 recession, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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26 May 17
The Conservative and Labour manifestos fail to honestly address long-term challenges faced by the country's public finances, a think-tank has declared.
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19 May 17
The Conservatives’ plans for public sector pay “risks exacerbating recruitment problems” while Labour’s proposals to increase pay would cost around £9bn a year, the...
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12 May 17
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned of “inevitable trade-offs” ahead as public spending pressures mount over the next 50 years.
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16 Mar 17
Child poverty in the UK is likely to increase over the next few years because of benefit cuts, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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13 Mar 17
Future squeezes on public finances could lead to a drop in the number of well-qualified people entering teaching and health professions, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned.
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2 Mar 17
Household income in the UK will continue to stagnate over the next two years, while child poverty and inequality is set to grow, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted.
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8 Feb 17
The pace of government spending cuts is set to quicken under Philip Hammond’s plans to move the public finances into surplus, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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31 Jan 17
Mandating public sector organisations in England to take on at least 250 apprentices every year is not an efficient way to boost skills in the sector, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
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13 Jan 17
The proportion of low-paid men working part time has quadrupled over the past 20 years, according to research published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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5 Jan 17
Younger generations are likely to inherit more wealth than their predecessors, while inheritances will form a greater portion of their income, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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7 Nov 16
The number of households affected by the government’s cap on benefits will increase fourfold as a result of the tightening of the limit today, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
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30 Sep 16
Councils could face financial uncertainty from a renewed round of appeals against business rate bills following revaluation next April, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
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14 Sep 16
The Welsh Government’s budget could be cut by 3.2% in real terms over the next three years, according to an analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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30 Aug 16
Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, is to join the board of the Office of Tax Simplification as a non-executive director.
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10 Aug 16
If the UK leaves the European single market, the cost to the UK economy could be as much as 4% of GDP, according to a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
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19 Jul 16
Improving the income of the working poor is the key to reducing inequality, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
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20 Jun 16
The directors of three of the UK’s leading economic research institutions have issued a joint statement warning that a Brexit would almost certainly weaken the public finances.
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17 Mar 16
Chancellor George Osborne is only on track to meet his one unbroken fiscal target thanks to some “fiddling around” with incomings and outgoings of the public purse, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
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2 Mar 16
Incomes for the UK’s poorest households are likely to stagnate over the next five years, an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis has revealed.
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8 Feb 16
George Osborne’s plans to get the government finances into surplus in 2019/20 are set to reduce public sector pay to the lowest level relative to the private sector for at least 25 years, an...
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21 Dec 15
Local government funding cuts are to ease in the years to 2019/20 compared to the last parliament and will be more evenly distributed across authorities, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal...
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17 Nov 15
Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson talks to Public Finance about tax credits, troublesome peers and the chancellor’s tough choices