Reports

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the risks of policies forging ahead of the evidence. Due to the slow pace of decarbonization, climate models are increasingly reliant on carbon removal technologies – such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) – to limit global warming and avoid catastrophe. BECCS has...

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 Centre for Progressive Policy looks at the levelling up outlook in adult social care reforms. This is CPP's fourth levelling up outlook tracking the country’s progress in reducing economic inequalities in the context of the ongoing crisis. We are using the latest official statistics and other reliable data...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how to deliver on the promise of integration in health and care. Integration has been a policy objective in England for almost half a century. It is desirable because it promises to improve the quality of care for those who rely on multiple services and reduce...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at popular homebuilding while boosting local communities. The Adam Smith Institute’s latest paper, co-published with C|T Local analyses a groundbreaking new poll about attitudes to housing reform:  The housing crisis, in which too few homes are being built where people want to live, is...

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...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the enduring principles for responding to Moscow. Russia continues to use a variety of state and non-state levers of power to cause harm to Western governments, societies and people. Driven by a perception that it is already in conflict with the West, Moscow has progressively...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the capabilities, limitations and challenges in Russian military technology. Military technology innovation enables Russia’s way of war and informs new concepts of operation and military thought around future warfare, especially asymmetric advantages against more powerful competitors. New weapons systems, dubbed Putin’s superoruzhie (‘super weapons’) and...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at how the Russian Government uses religious diplomacy. The Kremlin has, in recent years, actively portrayed itself as the defender of not only traditional values, but specifically religious ones. Putin’s government has depicted Russia as a counterrevolutionary force, leading a global crusade against the...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a new consensus on economic policy and how to 'build back better' from the pandemic. Covid-19 has exacerbated many of the existing challenges facing the UK economy - but it has also created an opportunity to ‘build back better’. ‘Building back better’ after the pandemic must...

This report from UK think tank IIED looks at recognising slavery as a mainstream policy issue alongside poverty and climate change. Climate and development policymakers and planners urgently need to recognise that millions of people displaced by climate change are being, and will be, exposed to slavery in the coming decades. Recognising slavery as a...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at a more contributory welfare system. The welfare state in Britain has become uniquely unpopular. A major three-year research programme, including polling and focus groups by the Centre for Policy Studies and Public First investigating public attitudes to the welfare state, has concluded...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how borrowing on international markets would affect an independent Scotland’s monetary policy. This report, published alongside a second paper on currency options for an independent Scotland, sets out how currency choice and needing to borrow from international markets would affect an independent Scotland’s...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the currency choice for a newly independent Scotland. Any currency choice for a newly independent Scotland would require its government to bring borrowing down to a sustainable level and commit to low and stable inflation. This report, published alongside a second paper on...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the case for a proportional property tax. The UK’s current system of property taxation is unfair and outdated. Council tax is based on 30-year-old property valuations, varies widely around the country, and is capped at relatively low property values, meaning that a multi-million-pound property in the...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at what does Boris Johnson’s new cabinet mean for government. After months of rumours, Boris Johnson has reshuffled his cabinet to remove some of the most criticised ministers and elevate his allies. In public terms, it may prove underwhelming. He has indeed demoted or...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at prioritising social investment in education, health and local communities. CPP and NRG have produced a new research paper which makes detailed policy suggestions to deliver levelling up and create opportunities for all. The report calls on the Government to prioritise social investment...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at a new type of housing to help key workers. Key workers, both in the public and private sector, were and are at the forefront of tackling Covid. This new report is calling for changes to help them get their foot on the...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at answers for a more equal, just housing system. During the coronavirus storm these structural inequalities played a part in worsening housing insecurity and health issues for BAME communities. They include deep inequalities in the labour markets, the social security system, and the effects...

This report from UK think tank the Education Policy Institute looks at 16-19 curriculum breadth and employment outcomes. This report finds that the proportion of students with A and AS levels or equivalent covering at least three of the main subject groups such as humanities, sciences, maths and languages, has now halved since 2010. England...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how the risks are compounding, and without immediate action the impacts will be devastating. At COP26, the governments of highly emitting countries will have a critical opportunity to accelerate emissions reductions through ambitious revisions of their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). If emissions follow the trajectory...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how to balance globalisation and sovereignty. The US, the EU and the UK hold a leading position in international trade and the global economy, and enjoy wide-reaching economic partnerships with Asia-Pacific nations. Governments in the US and Europe have a critically important role to play...

This report from UK think tank IIED looks at internally displaced persons who seek safety in towns and cities. A significant percentage of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who seek safety in towns and cities will not return home. Yet this is a reality that international actors consistently fail to adapt to and as a result,...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at process for public appointments. This report sets out 10 key questions that William Shawcross, Boris Johnson’s preferred candidate for the role of commissioner for public appointments, should be asked at the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) pre-appointment hearing. It says the...

This update from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at the gap between government spending and what is needed to achieve climate change targets. Green Alliance has been monitoring the gap between new UK government policy and spending and what is needed to achieve legal climate change targets. This is the fifth edition of the...