Spring budget 2024
The Institute for Government's latest analysis, podcasts and events following the spring budget.
Our analysis
Jeremy Hunt's 2024 spring budget highlights our politicians’ pretence over public spending
The figures that Hunt announced are based on fictitious future spending plans.
Five things we learned from the spring budget 2024
IfG experts analyse Wednesday's budget announcement
The next government must break its silence on departmental spending on day one
The later the election, the more urgent it will be for the next government to take decisions over spending
Treasury ‘orthodoxy’
The Treasury wields too much influence across government and dominates strategic thinking at the centre.
Strengthening the UK’s fiscal framework
The UK’s fiscal framework, including a flawed set of rules, incentivises bad policy decisions shaped by short-termism and fictional spending plans.
Inside Briefing LIVE: The general election budget?
Just a few hours after Jeremy Hunt set out his spring budget, a team of Institute for Government experts gathered in the IfG studio to record a special edition of the Inside Briefing podcast.
Listen to the podcast
Key explainers
Budgets
Governments require parliament’s approval to spend money, as well as to raise revenue in the form of taxes.
Current UK fiscal rules
What are the government’s current fiscal rules and is it on track to meet them?
Fiscal rules in the UK since 1997
Fiscal rules are restrictions on fiscal policy set by a government to constrain its own decisions on spending and taxes.
Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is the UK’s official independent economic and fiscal forecaster.
Our experts
Gemma Tetlow
Chief Economist
Thomas Pope
Deputy Chief Economist
Olly Bartrum
Senior Economist
Giles Wilkes
Senior Fellow
Jeremy Pattison
Research Assistant