Institute for Fiscal Studies

NEW PODCAST: Can the government make us eat more healthily?

🎙️@HelenMiller_IFS, @GautamVyasEcon and guest @HenryDimbleby examine government efforts to improve diets, and what difference weight-loss drugs could make, in our new podcast on the economics of healthy eating:

📊 #IFSSatStat: Last week the Chancellor announced a one-off £100 payment to households, the temporary removal of VAT on electricity, and an extended fuel duty freeze and cut.
 
This gives households a £140 boost on average, which covers 35% of the forecast rise in energy bills.

How could the government reduce energy prices?

@HelenMiller_IFS untangles electricity levies and their implications for prices, as well as the options available to the government, at a Treasury Select Committee @HoCcommitteesUK session on Tuesday:

"I can't imagine that anybody in the Treasury could have looked at the evidence around entrepreneurship and thought this was a good policy."

🎧 Listen to @HelenMiller_IFS discuss the new Founders' Relief at yesterday's Treasury Select Committee @HoCcommitteesUK session:

"If you take that list of 98 measures, what I see sadly is just lots of fiddling and no, I don't see a strategy."

🎧️ Listen to @HelenMiller_IFS share her views on the tax measures announced during the Budget at this morning's Treasury Select Committee @HoCcommitteesUK session: