Which public services are the relative winners and losers from Rachel Reeves’ multi-year 2025 Spending Review?

The income threshold below which pensioners will be eligible for the winter fuel payment (WFP) is set to rise.

New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than ...

Rachel Reeves is to allocate between competing priorities with her spending review, and a 2.5 per cent rise for health could ...

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is ...

The Crown Court case backlog has doubled since 2019 and continues to grow. We explore whether falling productivity is part of ...

We consider recent trends in health and social care productivity and the scope for future improvements.

The UK state pension system faces significant challenges given the country’s ageing population, but it is crucial for ...