Reports

This report from UK think tank Localis looks at how the Local Power Plan can build on best practice and overcome local barriers to drive energy decarbonisation. Elected on a platform with strong emphasis on energy security and decarbonisation, the UK Government has set a goal of ‘clean power’ by 2030 and established Great British...

This event from UK think tank Reform makes the case for a government which is radically focused on the key policies to delivering its agenda. The State has become paralysed by a powerful force: Everythingism. Everythingism is the belief that every proposal, project or policy is a means for promoting every national objective, all at...

This report from UK think tank HEPI considers the consequences of boys and men's underachievement. The problem of educational achievement by boys and young men is a long-standing and big one that has been largely ignored by policymakers. This new HEPI report considers the consequences for individuals and society and proposes: adopting a ‘boy positive’...

This report from UK think tank City-REDI examines how funding mechanisms can be used to better address spatial inequalities. The aim of this review is to draw out lessons for England, and the UK more broadly, in terms of how funding mechanisms can be used to better address spatial inequalities. The review is based on...

This report from UK think tank IPPR offers an implementation strategy for GBE’s success. The UK government created Great British Energy to help deliver secure, clean and affordable electricity. Achieving this requires bold, but focused, actions, without burdening GBE with conflicting objectives. In this report, we offer an implementation strategy for GBE’s success. We outline...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance provides actionable proposals across three areas: the macroeconomy, microeconomy and political reform. The Dasgupta Review, commissioned by the UK Treasury and published in 2021, exposed the fundamental flaw in mainstream economics: that it fails to account for the true value of nature. As a result, we continue...

This report from UK think tank City-REDI explores the potential link between work-based learning models and productivity in the UK space industry. This research examines work-integrated learning (WIL) models in the Midlands space cluster, focusing on their role in addressing skills challenges and enhancing productivity in the UK space sector. The study investigates four key...

This report from UK think tank Carnegie UK summarises the UK's tax, spend and fiscal policy issues against the backdrop of our collective wellbeing. This paper sets out a summary of relevant tax, spend and fiscal policy issues in the UK today against the backdrop of our current collective wellbeing. The paper seeks opinion on...

This report from UK think tank IPPR sets out 10 recommendations which, if delivered, would see a measurable improvement in school inclusion. An alarming number of children are missing out on the social and educational benefits of school. A crisis of lost learning is sweeping across schools in England. Children cannot learn if they are...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice examines short, medium and long-term solutions to Britain's human and economic challenge. ‘How to Get Britain Working’ calls on the Government to embrace a once in a lifetime opportunity to deliver welfare reform: delivering both economic and human benefit to ensure more people are...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at making England’s ‘devolution revolution’ a reality. By May, over half of England’s population will live in an area covered by a metro mayor. The mayoral combined authorities (MCAs) they lead have already shown their capacity to take on responsibility for key local economic...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society suggests a pivot to ‘securitisation’ as a new national security paradigm. We need a new doctrine for a new world. With more global instability than at any time since the Second World War, we are faced with challenges that are not only of a different...

This report from UK think tank the National Institute of Economic and Social Research looks at living standards in the UK. The United Kingdom is currently neither a high-wage nor a high-welfare country, leaving millions trapped between low wages and inadequate support. The research estimates that around half of the stagnation in real wages can...

This report from UK think tank the Education Policy Institute explores how long-term changes in education and employment outcomes vary across the four UK nations. A new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores how long-term changes in education and employment outcomes vary across the four UK nations. The...

This report from UK think tank Carnegie UK measures collective wellbeing across the UK in 2024. Out of a possible score of 100, England’s collective wellbeing in 2024 was just 61. This number is the same as the overall UK wellbeing score, and, within England, remains unchanged since our inaugural publication of this index in...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for European Reform assesses the state of UK-EU defence co-operation. The UK and the EU face daunting common security challenges. However, EU-UK defence co-operation remains limited and the UK’s defence relationship with the EU is shallower than that of many other non-EU partners. Labour’s idea of a...

This report from UK think tank Pro Bono Economics looks at the impact of literacy support on disadvantaged pupils’ GCSE grades and beyond. Our new report with Right To Succeed highlights the power of literacy support in transforming the futures of disadvantaged pupils in the UK. It reveals that targeted literacy programmes can unlock significant...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at what is driving the differing performance of prisons around the country. More work and education and increasing access to open prisons could turn around over a decade of strikingly poor prison performance in England and Wales. This report, the first in a new...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Policy Research looks at the potential value of impact investment in achieving their policy goals. Both before and since the 2024 UK general election, politicians have been talking about the potential value of impact investment in achieving their policy goals. Despite this interest, and an increasing...

This report from UK think tank Reform sets out a practical roadmap for realising the full potential of Strategic Authorities by evolving them to become more decisive, accountable, and capable. England’s devolution agenda is at a turning point. A new generation of Strategic Authorities is being rolled out across the country. They are intended to...

This report from UK think tank HEPI investigates the swing to science and away from the arts and humanities. In recent years, there has been a swing to science and away from the arts and humanities in the subjects students study at school and university. Why? A careful look at the data suggests policy and...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society examines the geopolitics of critical minerals. The average global citizen rarely thinks or talks much about rare earth elements (REEs). However, these 17 metallic elements are indispensable to everyday life, forming the backbone of high-tech devices such as mobile phones, cameras, computer hard drives and...

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation looks at new estimates of earnings volatility in the UK. This report uses a newly available dataset – payroll data held by HM Revenue and Customs on over 250,000 working-age people covering April 2014 to March 2019 – to look at monthly and weekly volatility in...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs examines democratic innovations across the world and how they could be implemented in a Welsh context. Our new report, Fostering Democratic Innovations in Wales, produced in collaboration with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society, examines democratic innovations put into practice...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how local leaders and central government can successfully navigate the challenges of ‘dual delivery’. The government has launched an ambitious programme of local government reorganisation that will bring remaining two-tier areas in line with the unitary authority system that operates across most English...