Public finance data out today show that borrowing overshot the official forecast made at last month's Spring Statement by £15 ...

On April 15, 1975, Denis Healey, the Labour chancellor, presented his budget. An economic crisis was upon us. Inflation was ...

Living standards across areas can be measured in many ways. Common approaches are to look at differences in local productivity (which reflect differences in the earnings of those working, but not ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. We use small-area estimation methods that combine information from a household ...

If you measure living standards by looking at how much people spend on goods and services (excluding housing-related expenditures and adjusting for household size) you get a starkly different picture ...

Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but their household spending once you account for housing costs is lower than other regions.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain.

The government spent around £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of national income, on our behalf in 2023-24. This was composed of different categories of spending - e.g. health, education, and benefit spending - ...

This week, we’re looking at corporation tax, which was introduced 60 years ago. Across the decades there have been no shortage of predictions that corporate tax revenues will decline, and yet the tax ...

Total public spending in the UK stood at £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of GDP, in 2023–24. Within this total, there are large regional differences in how much money the government spends, and in what it ...