Reports

This report from UK think tank New Local looks at the power of local action in combating climate change. Local action is the ‘missing piece’ of plans to fight climate change. This report sets out a vision for tackling climate change from the ground up.   The current ‘levels’ of climate action – international agreements, national targets, and personal...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust looks at prisoners' access to hospital services and the impact of the pandemic. Many prisoners still struggle to access hospital services despite their significant health care needs and early data suggests the pandemic has worsened access further. In this report, we consider new evidence relating to...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how to support the most exposed and vulnerable societies to reduce regional and global climate risks. This research paper – drawing on insights from 200 experts – highlights that, within the current decade, climate hazards are expected to have increasingly serious disruptive impacts. While many...

This report from UK think tank CLES looks at a roadmap towards a more supportive, less fragmented framework for CAT.  Across the UK, land and property development drives the extraction of wealth from local economies. This joint report from CLES and URBED critically analyses the dynamics in local land development markets and explores alternative models...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government assess how nine public services in England have coped with the coronavirus crisis. The pandemic has created huge backlogs in elective care, criminal court cases, referrals to children’s social care and school learning – and failing to address these backlogs now will push up costs...

This report from UK think tank IPPR provides a blueprint to make progress on health inequalities in England. Today, a child born in the most deprived part of the country can expect to die 10 years before a child born in the least deprived part of the country. They can expect to fall into poor...

This report from UK think tank the Foreign Policy Centre and Westminster Foundation for Democracy looks at the importance of open societies to the UK’s ambitions. Open societies around the world and the international system that supports them are under growing threat. This Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) and Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) publication provides...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at a coherent tax strategy to help the transition to a zero carbon economy. With COP26 less than three weeks away, Rishi Sunak’s forthcoming budget must set out a coherent tax strategy to help the UK transition to a zero carbon economy. Failing to...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a comprehensive plan to decarbonise the UK's homes. Unlike the UK’s success in promoting renewable energy generation in the power sector, the decarbonisation of the UK’s housing stock has repeatedly stalled. The UK is currently installing only 6 per cent of the heat pumps, 9 per...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for European Reform looks at how Europeans and the UK can work together on defence capability development. Since Brexit, the UK has been reluctant to engage with the EU in defence industrial co-operation. Aside from being disappointed with the EU’s offer to third countries, UK policy-makers and...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at increased use of forest biomass for energy and associated impacts on the climate. Existing national and intergovernmental policy frameworks treat forest biomass as zero-carbon at the point of combustion and grant it access to financial and regulatory support. Consumption of wood pellets is growing rapidly...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at poverty levels for people in minority ethnic communities in Scotland. Poverty levels for people in minority ethnic communities in Scotland are double the national average, and rising. Analysis in this briefing highlights several areas that are contributing to this worrying trend. Recommendations: Scottish...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at the key priorities for employers and Government on hybrid working. This joint research by the Work Foundation and The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) explores the implications of remote and hybrid working on diversity and inclusion at work, and finds that employers could undo the...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at boosting mothers’ employment and earnings through accessible childcare. As part of the Centre for Progressive Policy’s (CPP) Women in the Labour Market programme, this report explores how inadequacies in the childcare systems act as a barrier to women’s participation in the labour...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the large number of households on low incomes paying rents they cannot afford. JRF's latest analysis shows the large number of households on low incomes paying rents they cannot afford in the private rented sector. It provides new analysis on the depth and...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at broadening the decarbonisation debate to involve anti-poverty groups and perspectives. The distributional impacts of climate change policies are a growing part of the debate on decarbonisation as the discussion has shifted from ‘whether’ we transition to the ‘how’. However, there is a need to broaden these...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at a mismatch between Britain’s counter-terrorism efforts and its overall terror threat. This was published shortly after the terror-related killing of long-standing British parliamentarian Sir David Amess. The briefing argued that there is a fundamental mismatch between Britain’s counter-terrorism efforts and its overall terror threat....

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at linking debt financing to climate and nature KPIs. Africa is severely impacted by the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss. The continent’s debt now stands at more than 70% of GDP. There is potential to address these crises through ‘general purpose’ debt...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at why successive reforms fail to bring change in Iraq. Reform of the electoral system has been a consistent feature in Iraq since 2003. However, these developments have had little impact on how governments are formed. There is a lack of faith among Iraq’s general population...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how a positive outcome at COP26 is crucial to putting the world on a safer path. COP26 is a crucial opportunity to prevent the most disastrous impacts of climate change and uphold the credibility of the Paris Agreement. To have a chance of keeping global...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust looks at the costs and benefits of recruiting nurses overseas. The recruitment of nurses from overseas is vital for securing the staff we need in order to meet ambitious national goals to expand the workforce - but what are the costs and benefits? This major new...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the current state of poverty in Scotland. This report shows the current state of poverty in Scotland. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic Scotland has blighted by poverty with a million people, including a quarter of a million children, trapped in poverty. What you...

This report from UK think tank Localis looks at planning for a clean and good growth future. There is perhaps no greater issue driving division in British politics than the serious gap between aspirations for home ownership and the malign effects of constrained supply. This situation, in which we don’t build or supply enough affordable...

This report from UK think tank New Local looks at the case for community-powered conservatism. New Local and the New Social Covenant Unit are pleased to co-publish this report by 10 Conservative MPs from the 2019 intake, making the case for community power as the future of the party. Trusting the People explores how to...

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue looks at informal sources of support for Universal Credit claimants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bright Blue's new analysis reveals the extent to which Universal Credit claimants have received informal financial support from family and/or friends during the course of the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, compared...