This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at three ways to ensure efficient use of increased funding for public services. What does 'public service reform' look like in the 2020s? This briefing from the Social Market Foundation considers three ways the Government might seek to ensure increased funding for public services...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at what the Johnson government achieved – and what is left to do. Over half (55%) of the Conservative government’s 2019 manifesto pledges are completed or on track – but 41 pledges are at risk of failure or have been delayed, suspended or abandoned....

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks if we are moving parliamentary democracy to the regulatory state. At the forefront of Britain’s response to Covid-19 is the emergence of a new phase in the growth of the regulatory state. Many of the features of our pandemic response reflected the ongoing transformation of the state....

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at spreading opportunity, reducing division and building community at university. In a Debate Paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation, says universities and the Government should adopt the famous political idea of One Nation to reshape universities in England. Writing...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the levelling up white paper and the devolution deals with county areas. The long-awaited levelling up white paper should include a framework for how the government will negotiate devolution deals with county areas, what powers it is willing to devolve and what conditions...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how the House can regulate MP's second jobs more tightly. The decision of the House of Commons to place limits on the outside interests pursued by MPs has established a clear public expectation that change is on the way. But although the House...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at current levels of senior civil service pay. The government must commit to ringfencing the £45m needed to fund its promised reform of senior civil service pay or risk undermining job satisfaction and performance. This report, commissioned by the Office of Manpower Economics, reviews...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at what should happen now on how to uphold standards in public life. The government’s U-turn in the Owen Paterson case has yet again raised the question of how standards in public life can be upheld. The public outcry triggered by the government’s heavy-handed...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how government departments are failing to live up to transparency commitments. This report shows how government departments are failing to live up to transparency commitments made by successive prime ministers – with the Foreign Office, Ministry of Justice and Home Office the worst...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at five questions about what the government means by the phrase 'levelling up'. The government’s flagship levelling up agenda lacks clear objectives, with policies often contradicting ministerial rhetoric about decentralising power. This report, published today alongside new analysis of how money was allocated from...