This Briefing Note describes state pension provision in the United Kingdom from the inception of the basic state pension in 1948, following the Beveridge Report, to Pensions Act 2007 and the plans of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government.

This election briefing note reviews the policies that the three main UK political parties have announced in their manifestos that relate to state pensions, private pension saving, public sector pensions, and employment at older ages.

This Election Briefing Note, drawing in part on past notes in this series, analyses the manifesto proposals of the three main political parties in the area of families with children.

This report analyses the distribution of couple penalties and premiums in the tax and benefit system using a large, statistically representative sample of households.

In this election briefing note, we look at the environment policy proposals put forward by the three main UK political parties in their manifestos, as well as the current government's plans for the future.

This note discusses the tax and benefit proposals of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, looking at their economic and administrative merits, their distributional impact and their effect of incentives to work and save.

This Briefing Note examines what the parties have said (explicitly and implicitly) about the scale, timing and composition of the fiscal repair job ahead, teasing out the differences and similarities.

This note looks at trends in education spending under Labour and at the three main parties proposals for early years, schools and higher education.

In this Briefing Note, we briefly describe trends in UK productivity over the recent recession and how they compare with those in the US.

In this Briefing Note we focus on changes to the corporate tax environment alongside direct policies that aim to correct market failures.