Mark Franks

Director for Welfare grants and economist at the Nuffield Foundation. I'm no longer tweeting. Find me as markwfranks on LinkedIn.

[Leader of the House of Commons @CommonsLeader]

The Leader of the House, @LucyMPowell, was delighted to be able to speak at Full Fact's parliamentary reception this week about the importance of restoring trust in politics, and what she is doing in her role to help achieve this.

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

New research funded by @NuffieldFound showing 96% of residential adult social care services now outsourced despite privately run adult care homes consistently underperforming their public and third-sector counterparts on measures of quality. https://t.co/jamEW1VLBd

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

As well as the usual stuff on the public finances, this year's @TheIFS Green Budget has a chapter on adult social care: an important but perennially neglected sector.

The new government has scrapped the lifetime cap on care costs. So what's next?

https://t.co/2BDXnZO1Oc

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

Green Budget launch day is an important one for @NuffieldFound. As well as the economy and public finances, this year’s report looks in detail at key issues including child poverty, social care, public sector pay and Capital Gains Tax.

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: The decisions made at this month’s Budget could shape domestic policy for the whole parliament to come.

Our IFS Green Budget report launching today, funded by @NuffieldFound and @citi, examines the fiscal situation and options for the Chancellor: https://t.co/ev5r12WLqY

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

For our full analysis of the government’s potential options, read our Green Budget chapter in full, funded by @NuffieldFound and in association with @citi, here: https://t.co/p5cfiEIZWR

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[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

Great new @NuffieldFound funded Green Budget analysis by @TheIFS, analysing bang per buck of options to reduce child poverty. It depends on which/whose poverty gvt wants to prioritise, but dropping the two child limit would be well targeted and help significant numbers of people.

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

This is fantastic. It allows you to, among other things, compare how ‘cost-effective’ various policy reforms would be at reducing child poverty. On this metric, scrapping two-child limit gets you a lot of bang for your buck, because it's so laser-targeted at big, poor families.

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

The second of two important Green Budget outputs, supported by @NuffieldFound being released today. Debt rules are a technical issue but with major real-world impacts when they influence levels of government borrowing and investment.

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: The government is reportedly considering a change to the debt rule to allow for more borrowing for investment.

@PJTheEconomist, Carl Emmerson, @BenZaranko and Isabel Stockton consider some of the options in our IFS Green Budget comment: https://t.co/tHxbYHkD9Z

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NOW LIVE: @PJTheEconomist, @m_dominguezp and @awmckendrick present our new Green Budget chapter's findings on pressures on public sector pay, with a response from @markwfranks.

❔ Ask questions to our panel here: https://t.co/ePzQRCPZG4
📺 Watch here: https://t.co/tuTOR0hu1U

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

A detailed and thoughtful new output supported by @NuffieldFound on public sector pay, a topic with major consequences for the public finances, the wellbeing of the staff providing vital services and all of us who rely on them!

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: Delivering better public services may require reforming public sector pay, not just raising it.

Our IFS Green Budget chapter, funded by @NuffieldFound, examines the potential future pressures on public sector pay.

Read it here: https://t.co/GfitNswTVE

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

EVENT: Tomorrow IFS researchers will present new evidence on the key trends and challenges facing public sector pay, as part of our Green Budget 2024.

@markwfranks will respond to the presentations.

Friday 27 September | 9:30-10:30am | Online

Sign-up: https://t.co/491b2uesbR

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

The largest gaps that have emerged between prosperous and poor areas are in primary school educational standards, housing and public transport. An article by @williamnhutton on the new @NIESRorg Regional Regeneration Index supported by @NuffieldFound.

[Adrian Pabst @AdrianPabst1]

Labour have dropped the language of Levelling Up but a sustained regeneration of our cities & regions has never been more urgent

@williamnhutton on @NIESRorg 's latest findings based on the new dashboard & index
@NuffieldFound
@jagjit_chadha
@EconArnab
https://t.co/EPcQfpVZQA

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

A new tool developed with support of @NuffieldFound providing the potential to greatly enhance understanding of changes in inequalities in different places and what is driving them. Important and timely in the context of the UKs extremely high levels of geographical inequality.

[National Institute of Economic and Social Research @NIESRorg]

💥 OUT NOW 💥 Our new Regional Regeneration Dashboard is now live!

Compare different locations on key indicators including #housing, health and #transport 📊 and download data on over 100 variables 🔎

Funded by @NuffieldFound 👏

Click to explore ⬇🖱
https://t.co/mqKMQlz193

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

This Green Budget output funded by @NuffieldFound outlines the odd way in which the costs of the asylum system are budgeted for (or not). Surely anticipating and accounting for these costs in a more structured way would be better for forecasting and planning the public finances?

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: Woeful budgeting behind vast Home Office asylum overspends

Read our latest IFS Green Budget briefing by @MaxWarner and @BenZaranko, funded by @NuffieldFound: https://t.co/QIOm8dvU9i

[Anders Bach-Mortensen @AMBachMortensen]

📣Just out in @BMJPublicHealth:
Have outsourcing enabled the survival of good care homes in England?

📈For-profit provision has increased despite
performing worse than non-profit homes
🚨Third and public sector homes have closed irrespective of quality

https://t.co/kASNMiOHl1

[Institute for the Future of Work @FutureWorkInst]

In another workstream for the Review, @magsoffia's team have been showing how institutional support mechanisms at work help support wellbeing and job quality when people are exposed to new technologies: https://t.co/7hgnKot2he

[Mark Franks @markwfranks]

We funded analysis to inform policymakers and the public prior to the election and now many of our @NuffieldFound grants are considering priorities for the new government. This important report looks at challenges facing key public services including education and justice.

[Institute for Government @instituteforgov]

The government’s spending plans from April 2025 onwards will likely mean that all public services other than GPs, hospitals and schools could be performing worse in 2027/28 than in 2019.

Our report looks at how Labour can improve service performance https://t.co/YGMKCh8cnp

[Alex Beer @amiddletonbeer]

Current data gaps limit our understanding of older people’s wellbeing, inc. by ethnicity or place, or of experiences of care. This grant aims to address these gaps & support policymakers, communities etc to maximise wellbeing in later life for those at risk of poor outcomes.

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

“We are delighted that today these essential outputs from the review have been brought together and published by the Oxford University Press.” – Professor Sir Angus Deaton.

Find all of the articles and commentaries from the review on the OUP website here: https://t.co/8VJwlglT3L

[Mike Brewer @MikeBrewerEcon]

My contribution to the Deaton review is published today as an Open Access article - if you want to know EVERYTHING (it's quite long...) there is to know about income and wealth inequality (pre-2020), then bookmark this now.

[David Phillips @fiscalphillips]

My #DeatonReview chapter with my @theIFS colleague @KateOgdenEcon finds something you may find surprising: public service spending has become more progressive over the long-term as education participation grew and spending shifted to younger children.