Latest Publications

This new analysis shows that the Coalition’s plans require much greater spending cuts or tax rises than were implied even at the last Budget, to get the public finances back on track after 2014.

Based on interviews with low-income families, this report examines the impact of the new Universal Credit on households' financial resilience and proposes an innovative reform.

This paper makes the case for bringing forward the unidentified £15bn of austerity measures that have to be made in the next parliament, and spending the extra £50bn this would save over four years to simulate the economy and cut unemployment.

As the dust begins to settle on the Government’s much anticipated budget for growth, the Social Market Foundation brings you analysis and comment on some of the major announcements made by George Osborne today.

This paper spells out the full range of measures necessary to fix the deficit over the next six years, by cutting public spending and raising taxes in a way that exemplifies social market priorities.

This paper argues that the most appropriate reform to the institutions of fiscal policymaking would be the creation of an independent Office for Fiscal Analysis (OFA), separated from fiscal decision-makers in government, that would undertake all official fiscal projections.

This report outlines the current pattern of co-payment in the UK and debates whether there is a case for introducing or extending co-payment into new areas of public service provision.