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🚨New Institute for Fiscal Studies research takes a 25-year view of housing supply in England: 🏡Just how bad is England at building new homes where they are needed? 🏡What holds back the response of housing supply in some areas? Let's take a look... 1/

A key chart from Bee Boileau's Institute for Fiscal Studies presentation on public spending. Health and social care normally get faster day-to-day funding growth than average. But from last year to next, it's basically at the average (though still much higher growth than since 2010)

🚨The UK Budget has significantly improved the short-term funding position for Scottish Government but much tougher times loom down the line. Read my and Bee Boileau’s new @theIFS pre-Scottish Budget comment on the financial situation facing Shona Robison MSP. A 🧵 ifs.org.uk/articles/uk-bu…

NEW: After £1.5 billion of top ups in 2024-25, day-to-day health spending faces a real terms freeze in 2025-26 according to the latest plans. David Phillips and Bee Boileau analyse the plans for 2025-26 spending in our new Scottish Budget report [Thread 1/4] ⬇️

Good in-the-weeds detail from Ben here - on how the cut to aid & rise in defence spending has made the Chancellor's main fiscal rule easier to meet, by reducing day-to-day & increasing capital spending (in what seems to have been a very careful choice of composition & baselines)

State pension age starts rising again in April 2026. Most people in their early 60s know their state pension age, but a significant minority are incorrect or unaware. This is worrying as people may base retirement and saving decisions on incorrect information. Short thread👇

Rather than doom-scrolling/trying to desperately learn what a ‘Treasury basis trade’ is, why not play with our new tool instead? Allows you to see, in lots of detail, how much the government spends on different things in each region. I’ll post some nice examples later.

EVENT: A look ahead to the 2025 Spending Review Join us at 11am on Monday 2 June for our analysis of the key choices at next month's Spending Review, with speakers Bee Boileau and Institute for Government's Stuart Hoddinott. Sign up here: ifs.org.uk/events/look-ah…

NEW: Four big decisions for the 2025 Spending Review Bee Boileau Ben Zaranko and Max Warner explain why tough choices will be unavoidable at the upcoming Spending Review in our new briefing: ifs.org.uk/articles/four-…

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 How do spending reviews work? 💷 Tory MP Rt Hon John Glen MP, former minister Brandon Lewis, former special adviser Sonia Khan and economists Thomas Pope & Bee Boileau join Alain Tolhurst to look behind the Treasury's spending plans 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2e0742