This report, drawing on previous Institute for Government reports, highlights the four areas that offer the greatest opportunity for the new UK Government to ensure that its fiscal policy best helps deliver its priorities and ends by setting out how these could be enacted in legislation.

While In Opposition, the UK Labour Party has set out some ambitious plans for power sector decarbonisation, with a mission to deilver 'clean power' by 2030. This report looks at how, if elected, it could meet this aim, specifically exploring the barriers to faster power sector decarbonisation and steps that could accelerate delivery.

Whoever wins the next UK general election will be unable to deliver high-performing public services – unless they commit to a prevention strategy that limits the rising tide in demand for acute services like hospitals and prisons. This report sets out how the next government can use the opportunity of a new parliament to shift...

Permanent secretaries and directors general are the most senior officials in the UK civil service. But what is their background, how are they appointed and managed, and what are they paid? This report takes a data-led approach to understanding the characteristics of the country’s top officials, and produces recommendations on how the way they are...

Parliament plays a crucial role in holding regulators to account, but MPs and peers struggle to scrutinise them in a systematic way. This report sets out how select committees can perform this important task more effectively, underpinned by a realistic assessment of parliament’s capacity.