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FOI2024/00766: 'Tax, private school fees and state school spending' Report

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we didn't hold it.

Case reference FOI2024/00766

Received 2 September 2024

Published 21 October 2024

Request

Request Received: 2 September 2024

Information required in relation to the ESRC funded report, completed by the IFS, titled ‘Tax, private school fees and state school spending’ (published 11th July 2023). See link: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/tax-private-school-fees-and-state-school-spending

Date range to cover from first piece of information to most recent.

Documents, email traffic, minutes, meetings and communications illustrating:

1. how much was paid to the IFS?

2. who proposed the work? For example, the ESRC, the IFS or a third party?

3. which individuals asked for, and signed off, the funding and the work?

4. who was accountable for the selection of the provider and the quality of the work?

5. what efforts were made to ensure independent research from an unbiased provider and individuals within it?

6. which individuals from the IFS were involved in any communications?

7. who else was considered for the work?

8. what was the exact remit proposed by / given to the IFS?

9. what involvement there was from the UKRI (including details of which individuals)?

10. what involvement there was from the DSIT (including detail of which individuals)?

11. what involvement there was from parliamentarians, policy makers and government departments (including detail of which individuals)?

12. were any other third parties involved?

13. what conflicts-of-interest checks were completed?

Response Sent: 9 September 2024

Full details of this response are provided in the attached document.

This is UK Research and Innovation's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.