Procurement
Retention in public services
How can government keep workers in the NHS, schools and police?
Local government section 114 (bankruptcy) notices
What is a section 114 notice, and why have councils been issuing more of them recently?
HS2: costs and controversies
How much has the HS2 project cost since its inception?
The development of the UK’s offshore wind sector 2010–16
What can this and future governments learn from the UK's successes in offshore wind policy in the 2010s?
IfG at the Conservative Party Conference 2023
The IfG was in Manchester for a series of fringe events on the constitution, levelling up, public services, AI and more.
Briefings and barges do not make for good asylum policy
The government’s ‘small boats week’ may fill a recess-shaped hole in the media grid, but won’t help the prime minister ‘stop the boats’.
Why government (still) needs to dispose of ‘Take Out the Trash Day’
The habit of issuing a deluge of data and documents as parliament rises for the summer is bad for scrutiny.
Procurement in the pandemic and beyond: Reflections and lessons for government commercial
This event explored the lessons learnt from the pandemic can be applied to future crises and the government’s Procurement Bill.
Carillion: four years on
Our panel examined whether the government has learnt the lessons from the collapse of Carillion.
Reunification of probation services
MoJ's preparations for the reunification of services and their transition back into the department.