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The 2026 Senedd Election Simulator: One Year to Go

The 2026 Senedd Election Simulator: One Year to Go

Posted on 7 May 2025 by Jac Larner

This time next year, Wales holds its seventh devolved election – one that will be different from all previous contests. This election will be the first to use a new […]

Spring Statement 2025 – the implications for Wales

Spring Statement 2025 – the implications for Wales

Posted on 27 March 2025 by Guto Ifan

By Guto Ifan, Owain Roberts and Ed Gareth Poole With dark economic clouds gathering, the Chancellor decided to cut spending to meet her ‘iron-clad’ fiscal rules. This blog looks at […]

Immigration in Wales and the Immigration Health Surcharge

Posted on 6 December 2023 by Larissa Peixoto Gomes

Wales Fiscal Analysis has conducted a review of data regarding the economic impact of immigration in Wales and how the Immigration Health Surcharge might create negative incentive’s for the immigration […]

Taxing Times: WRIT and the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget 2023-24

Taxing Times: WRIT and the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget 2023-24

Posted on 8 February 2023 by Larissa Peixoto Gomes

Yesterday, the Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023–24 was debated on the floor of the Senedd. The debate centred around prepared statements by Welsh Government Finance Minister Rebecca Evans (Labour) […]

Yma o Hyd? The Welsh economy of ’58

Yma o Hyd? The Welsh economy of ’58

Posted on 16 November 2022 by Guto Ifan

On 21 November 2022, Wales will play in a World Cup finals game for the first time since our quarter final loss against Brazil on 19 June 1958. In the […]

Covid-19 and the economic challenges facing the incoming Welsh Government – part 2

Posted on 20 May 2021 by Guto Ifan

In this series of blog posts, Jesús Rodríguez from the Wales Fiscal Analysis (WFA) team explores the economic challenges facing the incoming Welsh Government in recovering from Covid-19. Part 1 can be found […]

Covid-19 and the economic challenges facing the incoming Welsh Government – part 1

Posted on 14 May 2021 by Guto Ifan

In this series of blog posts, Jesús Rodríguez from the Wales Fiscal Analysis (WFA) team explores the economic challenges facing the incoming Welsh Government in recovering from Covid-19 The 2021 Senedd election on 6 […]

Funding the response to COVID-19: looking ahead to an unprecedented Supplementary Budget

Funding the response to COVID-19: looking ahead to an unprecedented Supplementary Budget

Posted on 26 May 2020 by Guto Ifan

Welsh Government Supplementary Budgets do not usually garner much attention. Given the momentous events since the Welsh Government published its Final Budget allocations in March, tomorrow’s supplementary budget will be […]

Fastest growth in Welsh public spending since start of austerity

Posted on 7 December 2018 by Guto Ifan

Last year saw the fastest growth in public spending for Wales since 2009-10. However, total spending is still well below 2009-10 levels, particularly on areas outside of health and social […]

Taxes in the draft Welsh Budget – Wales’ first ‘rabbit-out-of-hat’ moment?

Taxes in the draft Welsh Budget – Wales’ first ‘rabbit-out-of-hat’ moment?

Posted on 9 October 2017 by Guto Ifan

George Osborne’s Chancellorship was famously littered with headline-grabbing tax reforms, tax-hikes and give-aways. In style and politics, the ex-Chancellor may have very little in common with the Welsh Government’s Cabinet […]