Without doubt the biggest financial event of the year will be the first budget of the new Labour government on the 30th October. With many views being put about around what Rachel Reeves will announce we will only really know on the day.

To help DIN members make sense of all the announcements, we have secured a good friend of DIN, Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies for a 60min webinar to give you a comprehensive analysis and comment on the budget, how they are likely to play out and perhaps as importantly what issues haven’t been addressed.

There will be plenty in here for DIN members to mull over including:

• How will the budget plans impact the economy, people and housing providers
• How are the policies likely to achieve purpose, will they lead to more economic growth
• What wasn’t covered and why?
• Will there be more ‘pain’ to come or will this be it?
• And much more

About our speaker

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in the UCL Policy Lab and at the UCL department of economics.

He was for 10 years a member of the UK Climate Change Committee, and has served on the council of the ESRC and of the Royal Economic Society. Paul led reviews of pension auto-enrolment and of inflation measurement for the UK government, and of fiscal devolution for the Northern Ireland executive.

Previous roles have included time as chief economist at the Department for Education and as director of public spending at HM Treasury, where he also served as deputy head of the government economic service.

Paul published the Sunday Times bestseller “Follow the Money” in 2023.

He was appointed CBE in the 2018 birthday honours.