Working to make government more effective

Matthew Fright

Senior Researcher

Matthew is a senior researcher in the devolution team. He previously worked on the public services team as one of the authors of the IfG CIPFA Performance Tracker. 

Matthew has a PhD on the origins of national income accounting. Before university he worked as an intern for an MP and later scrutinised the value for money of government programmes at the National Audit Office. He joined the Institute in June 2022 from a secondment to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee at the House of Commons.  

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17 OCT 2022 Report

Performance Tracker 2022

Public services won’t have returned to pre-pandemic performance by the next election.

17 OCT 2022 Report chapter

Performance Tracker 2022: Police

The nature of police work changed during the height of the pandemic, but is now returning to previous patterns – and some growing challenges.

22 MAY 2018 Explainer

Irish reunification

What is a border poll? What would happen if Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland voted in favour of reunification?