In the 2024 general election, the Labour Party promised to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) within a decade.

DWP’s improved methodology reduces official measures of income poverty, but we cannot yet conclude that new statistics are ...

Plans to significantly cut Scottish income tax rates are front and centre of Reform UK’s Scottish manifesto. Initial cuts – ...

Today’s new personal independence payment statistics show the number of new awards fell in 2025, but remains above ...

Are pensioners now better off than working-age people? We examine the data on income, wealth, housing and the future of ...

This comment analyses the government’s new youth employment package, which expands youth wage subsidies and introduces ...

English hospital services are in a relatively poor state - yet still look substantially better on many measures than those in ...

We identify challenges and develop policy proposals for the UK private pension system, which is increasingly reliant on ...

We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the ...

As the state pension age rises to 67, we ask who can keep working longer, who cannot, and what the future of retirement looks ...

Join us and Aberdeen University ahead of the Scottish elections for expert analysis of fiscal policy and the parties' plans ...

Join us at the IFS-Deaton Review’s final workshop, where we will explore the review's findings and their policy implications in the UK context.