Reports

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at how Britain can take back control of its immigration and asylum system. Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, has welcomed a report jointly written by Nick Timothy, a former Home Office adviser and Downing Street chief of staff, which calls for a raft...

This report from UK think tank IIED looks at biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit of biodiversity. Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit...

This report from UK think tank The Sutton Trust looks at how the cost of living crisis is affecting young people and their educations. The cost of living crisis is increasingly impacting families, with prices rising and parents struggling to make their incomes stretch. But how is this affecting young people and their educations? This...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at how to get vans on the right road to net zero. The number of vans on the road has almost doubled over the past two decades and their greenhouse gas emissions have increased 56 per cent since 1990. New policy is urgently needed to get...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at designing policies to support British households in an age of high prices. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank looks at options for designing a durable energy bills support policy It hardly need restating that Britain faces an energy crisis with higher than...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at a national security-based model that draws on characteristics of three other national security policing responses. In 2022, escalating levels of fraud and the spotlight placed on the UK’s role in Russia-related money laundering have given rise to a growing recognition of economic crime as a national...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Cities looks at the most frequently asked questions on planning reform. This report brings together answers to the most frequently asked questions on planning reform and what actions local and national government should be taking to tackle the root cause of the housing crisis and to...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how to strengthen the civil service through external recruitment. The civil service’s ability to deliver ministers’ priorities is being hurt by its failure to attract, retain and properly use the skills of external recruits. This report calls on ministers and civil servants to...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at 16 problems facing the country. The Adam Smith Institute’s latest discussion paper, written by Dr. Madsen Pirie, details the key problems facing Britain today.

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the issue of parental rights in education from a philosophical perspective. This essay from Anthony O’Hear (professor of philosophy at the University of Buckingham) explores the issue of parental rights in education from a philosophical perspective, starting with the work of Plato and Aristotle before looking...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for London looks at London's contribution to the UK. This report outlines the many ways in which London is essential to the success of the UK. The second and final phase of our research programme on the levelling up agenda looks outwards, highlighting why the capital is...

This short briefing from Smart Thinking is based on the second survey of UK think tank employees conducted in October 2022. For the third year we surveyed those working in UK think tanks to take a look at average pay, conditions in the sector and any other issues from the past year. We also analysed...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at how communities in Kenya have responded to the request of increasing reporting of ‘suspicious activities’. This paper empirically explores how communities have responded to the request of increasing reporting of ‘suspicious activities’. More specifically, it explores to what extent community members of Garissa and Lamu counties...

This report from UK think tank IIED looks at COVID-19 as a pandemic of amplified inequality and highlight its cross-cutting lessons. COVID-19 produced winners and losers: in vaccine access, care burdens, disease outcomes, income, education, healthcare, and many more. Since disadvantages intersect and compound, communities in poorer nations fared worst. In October 2022, nearly three...

This report from UK think tank EDSK provides an investigation into the quality of apprenticeships in England. Exactly ten years after the publication of a major government review into the quality of apprenticeships in England, a new report from the education think tank EDSK finds that many apprentices are receiving such a poor experience that...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for European Reform looks at how Brexit has hampered UK science and innovation. Britain’s spat with the EU over participation in the €95 billion Horizon Europe research programme remains one of the biggest issues in the fractious post-Brexit UK-EU relationship. The EU will not allow Britain to...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at the next steps for dismantling the poverty premium. We estimate that nearly seven million people in Great Britain are paying multiple poverty premiums – this is where low-income households pay more than those on higher incomes to access essential products and services,...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at North Korea's involvement in aspects of the illegal wildlife trade to generate foreign currency. The North Korean government has a long history of involvement in illicit activities to generate foreign currency, which it uses to fund the regime elite and its weapons proliferation programmes, currently subject...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at predictions public services will be performing worse in 2025 than on the eve of the pandemic. Jeremy Hunt’s spending settlement is likely to leave most public services performing worse in 2025 than on the eve of the pandemic – when performance levels were...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice is a plan to unleash the potential of adult community education and bolster economic growth. Learning and skills underpin our country’s growth trajectory. Without a stronger foundation of education for all and opportunities to retrain and develop the world-class skills needed for a competitive...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at making the case for a series of short questions on university application forms. The UCAS personal statement is a 4,000 character / 47-line essay that applicants submit when applying for UK undergraduate programmes. There is growing recognition that the UCAS personal statement needs reform, including from...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at why politicians struggle to give the NHS the staff it needs. The workforce crisis has been a prominent issue for years, but there has been little concerted action from governments to tackle the challenge. For almost two decades now there has been no clear...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at the UK’s short-to-medium investments in Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO)-type capabilities. With limited resources and a host of urgent force modernisation and regeneration requirements, the UK’s short-to-medium investments in multidomain integration/Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO)-type capabilities will need to be incremental.

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how views have changed and what this means for the current politics of immigration. Public attitudes to immigration have warmed considerably in recent years. This paper – drawing on new analysis of attitudes data, including the British Election Study and the Ipsos immigration tracker – explores...

This report from UK think tank the Sutton Trust looks at the mental health and wellbeing of young people in year 11. This briefing, analysing data from the first wave of the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) Study, considers the mental health and wellbeing of young people in year 11, mainly focusing on the...