Reports

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...

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...