Dan Haile
Senior Economist
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Public financial institutions
Public financial institutions (PuFins) can invest public funds and “crowd in” private investment. But who are they?
The UK electricity market
How does the electricity market work, and how is the government seeking to change it?
Domestic energy bills
Rising bills have the biggest impact on lower-income households since price rises. So what is the government doing to lower energy bills?
Managing the economic consequences of the Iran war
How should the government respond to the crisis in the Middle East?
Energy resilience
The Middle East crisis has put energy resilience back on the agenda.
Energy price cap
Amid soaring energy bills, we explain what the Ofgem price cap is and how it's calculated.
Four things we learnt from Rachel Reeves’s spring forecast 2026
The chancellor’s spring forecast was short and free of new policy content.
Will Rachel Reeves’s 2026 spring forecast be as low key as promised?
The government is right to approach 3 March as a fiscal ‘non-event’.
Tariffs, trade and Trump
What tariffs has Donald Trump announced – and what do they mean for the UK?
Five things we learned at the IfG's Government 2026 conference
What lies in store for government in 2026?