In our first election podcast, Mairi Spowage, Emma Congreve, David Eiser, and Stuart McIntyre reflect on the big themes likely to feature in this election and answer some of the questions asked by our webinar audience earlier this week that we didn’t have time to answer.
Chair
Mairi Spowage, Interim Director, FAI
Guests
Emma Congreve, Head of Poverty & Equalities Analysis FAI
David Eiser: Head of Fiscal Analysis FAI
Stuart McIntyre: Head of Research, FAI
Timestamps
(02:32) Reflections on the big themes discussed at the election webinar
(13:32) Adult social care reform
(16:49) Income tax powers
(25:15) Labour market outlook
(30:31) New social security powers
Authors
Mairi is the Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and the Head of National Accounts at the Scottish Government and has over a decade of experience working in different areas of statistics and analysis.
Emma Congreve is Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow and Deputy Director at the Fraser of Allander Institute. Emma's work at the Institute is focussed on policy analysis, covering a wide range of areas of social and economic policy. Emma is an experienced economist and has previously held roles as a senior economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and as an economic adviser within the Scottish Government.
Head of Research at the Fraser of Allander Institute
David is Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute