The TaxPayers' Alliance

Combined authorities are a relatively new feature of England’s local government structure, designed to coordinate cross-boundary infrastructure and economic development by devolving powers from Westminster. Typically led by directly elected metro mayors, they provide a single point of contact for central government, can simplify the delivery of region-wide projects and act as...

Britain’s government is spending eye-watering sums across an ever-growing state, but where is all that money actually going?

Podcast host Duncan Barkes is joined by the TPA’s William Yarwood and Shimeon Lee to discuss the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s latest Spending Factbook, which lays bare the scale of government spending and how taxpayers’ money is being used across Wh...

Why I continue to subject myself to regularly watching Treasury Oral Parliamentary Questions (OPQs) is beyond me.

Each session is much like the last, with the same tired old talking points, demands from backbenchers for more money, and Treasury jargon that no one outside of SW1 understands or cares about. But as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his fo...

Every year the government spends over a trillion pounds of taxpayers' money. But figures running into billions and trillion can make it difficult to understand just how much is really being spent.

This factbook puts government spending into perspective by breaking it down into a figure everyone can understand: the amount spent per person. From healthcare and education t...

A curious piece appeared in the New Statesman last month, claiming that low income households pay hundreds of pounds more for the same...