New report - Business rates in Wales, local retention and regional growth deals
Retention of business rates in Wales? We consider the issue of local retention of business rates in Wales in relation to the new and emerging…
Category Archives: Reports
The Cost of Caring for an Ageing Population - submission to the Finance Committee of the National Assembly for Wales
Our researcher Joseph Ogle has sent this submission to the Finance Committee. The evidence set out in this paper primarily comes from our analysis of…
After Brexit?
Read the report published by the Bevan Foundation in partnership with Wales Public Services 2025 on what Brexit might mean for public services in Wales,…
Austerity and Local Government in Wales: an analysis of income and spending priorities, 2009-10 to 2016-17
A look back at the impacit of austerity on local government. …
‘Welsh Government Budgetary Trade-offs: Looking Forward to 2021-22’
Wales Public Services 2025 and the Wales Governance Centre have released a joint new report. The report sets out the key changes to the UK…
A delicate balance? Health & Social Care spending in Wales
The team at Wales Public Services 2025 have produced an important briefing paper on health & social care spending in Wales. The report focuses on…
Wales Public Services 2025 contributes to the Institute for Fiscal Studies Green Budget
Our Research Associate Dr Daria Luchinskaya has been contributing as a joint author for the chapter on UK health and social care in the Green…
The November 2016 OBR Economic and Fiscal Outlook pointed to lower growth and lower real wages over the next few years, while the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement prioritised capital investment over day-to-day public services costs: what are the implications for Wales?
A presentation was given by our Research Associate Dr Daria Luchinskaya. There was also time for some debate. Many thanks to those who attended -…
A time of revolution: British local government finance in the 2010s
This is the first report in a new multi-year IFS research programme examining these major changes to local government finance. The programme will consider the…
Efficiency and the NHS Wales Funding Gap – report by the Public Policy Institute for Wales
In Spring 2016, working with Wales Public Services 2025, the PPIW ran a series of facilitated workshops exploring how further ‘technical’ efficiency could help close…
The path to sustainability. Funding projections for the NHS in Wales to 2019/20 and 2030 - the Health Foundation
Wales Public Services 2025 has worked with the Health Foundation and the Public Policy Institute for Wales on this report. Read it in full here.
Welsh Government faces difficult budgetary trade-offs and uncertain times
Given the plans and forecasts set out in the UK government’s March 2016 budget, the Welsh Government’s budget could be cut by 3.2% in real…
WPS 2025/IFS presentation on Welsh budgetary trade-offs 2019-20
Presentation given by David Phillips & Polly Simpson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Read the presentation here.
What does a new Government in Wales mean for public services and the growing divergence from England?
Turbulent Times Ahead? The third in a series of four roundtables on the challenges ahead for Welsh public services and their finances. Briefing notes from…
Implications of Brexit on public services in Wales
Turbulent Times Ahead? The second in a series of four roundtables on the challenges ahead for Welsh public services and their finances. Briefing notes from…
Implications of party manifestos on public services
Turbulent Times Ahead? A series of four roundtables on the challenges ahead for Welsh public services and their finances, April – July 2016. Our first…
Wales Public Services 2025 working with Health Foundation - Closing the Gap programme
The Health Foundation (HF) is resourcing two projects which explore long-term challenges and vision for the NHS in Wales. HF, in partnership with the…
Welsh Government budget options to 2020-21
Wales Public Services 2025 has commissioned a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the Welsh Government’s financial plans for the new Assembly. This…
Research report from Nuffield Trust - a decade of austerity in Wales?
Report dated June 2014 by Adam Roberts & Anita Charlesworth - a decade of austerity in Wales? A report on the funding pressures facing the…