This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust examines results from the British Social Attitudes survey. The Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund have joined forces again to publish the gold-standard measure of public attitudes and opinions towards the NHS and social care, as surveyed by NatCen during 2022. Public satisfaction with the health...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Public Data provides technical recommendations on how to address justice system data gaps. Our criminal justice system is rife with data gaps that obscure genuine scrutiny of justice in the UK.  This report maps these data gaps and provides the Ministry of Justice with technical recommendations...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation reviews the effectiveness of previous efforts to reduce government red tape. This report published by Social Market Foundation think-tank reviews the effectiveness of previous efforts to reduce government red tape – and his authored by Regulatory Policy Committee Chair, Stephen Gibson and associates. Government regulations...

This report from UK think tank the David Hume Institute looks at what Scotland's Land Information System is and why it matters. A new report, written by land reform expert Andy Wightman, commissioned jointly by the David Hume Institute and Built Environment Forum Scotland, says the lack of a fully functioning land and building information...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at lessons from six case studies and other research on government data sharing during the pandemic. During the pandemic, the government created the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service – which required sharing individual address and health information – in a matter of weeks. It...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the role of England’s mayors in the climate transition. This report calls on the UK government to put England’s mayors at the heart of its net zero strategy and give England’s locally elected leaders the powers and funding to become trailblazers in transitioning...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government is their annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service over the past year.  This is the 10th edition of Whitehall Monitor – our annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service, how it has changed and performed over the past year, and its priorities...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the tough choices and difficult trade-offs facing the government in 2023. As we begin 2023, the tough choices and difficult trade-offs involved in governing a country are more evident than ever. Governments around the world are dealing with geopolitical tensions, the health and...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government argues that ministers and civil servants need to urgently reset relations. Brexit, Covid and Boris Johnson have made existing tensions in relations between civil servants and ministers unsustainable. This report, the latest in the Institute for Government/Bennett Institute review of the UK constitution, argues that...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at an international comparison for subnational government. England’s usually messy patchwork of governing arrangements makes it an international outlier in its subnational government structures. This report draws on comparable data across large, advanced economies and additional qualitative analysis of Germany and Japan (including interviews...