The outlook for the 2015 spending review

Published on 2 October 2015

On 25th November the government will announce the results of its 2015 Spending Review, allocating spending between government departments for the four years 2016-17 to 2019-20. This background briefing note sets out the constraints facing the Chancellor, given the plans for the public finances that he published in the July Budget.

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On 25th November the government will announce the results of its 2015 Spending Review, allocating spending between government departments for the four years 2016-17 to 2019-20. This background briefing note sets out the constraints facing the Chancellor, given the plans for the public finances that he published in the July Budget.

An accompanying online calculator allows you to act as Chancellor and conduct your own Spending Review. Complete with data visualisation and infographics, the interactive tool guides you through the headline plans the Chancellor has made, and lets you make your own decisions about how to allocate spending between government departments.

Visit the online guide and calculator

Authors

Carl Emmerson
Carl Emmerson

Deputy Director

Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.

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Gemma Tetlow

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Rowena Crawford

Report details

DOI
10.1920/BN.IFS.2015.00176
ISBN
978-1-909463-98-1
Publisher
Institute for Fiscal Studies

Suggested citation

R, Crawford and C, Emmerson and G, Tetlow. (2015). The outlook for the 2015 spending review. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/outlook-2015-spending-review (accessed: 20 April 2024).

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