Reacting to today’s decision by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, William Ellis, senior economist at IPPR, said: “The Bank of England’s decision to lower interest rates today by 25bps ...

An alarming number of children are missing out on the social and educational benefits of school. A crisis of lost learning is sweeping across schools in England. Children cannot learn if they are not ...

The UK’s share of global research and development (R&D) investment has fallen by a fifth since 2014, according to new analysis of the most recent data by IPPR. The drop, from 4.2 per cent to 3.4 per ...

The UK’s competition framework — and its regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority — has struggled to prevent rising market concentration and stagnant productivity. At the same time, the UK ...

Source: IPPR North analysis of Office for National Statistics [ONS] (2019) ‘Country and regional public sector finances supplementary tables’, data. IPPR North is the leading think-tank for the north ...

A quarter of employees feel pressure to drink at workplace events, rising to 38 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds Workplace drinking culture driving absences as 31 per cent of workers call in sick in ...

A new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reveals the significant impact generative AI is having on UK society, both professionally and personally. The findings highlight an ...

More than £3.3 billion has returned to the Treasury in the last three years under the Government’s use-it-or-lose-it apprenticeship levy rules, according to new data collected by apprenticeships ...

A key priority for the government’s upcoming child poverty strategy should be to remove the two-child limit and scrap the household benefit cap. These measures would cost around £3 billion and, while ...

Given continued fiscal pressures, the chancellor will have to raise taxes in the autumn budget. Attention is on Britain’s property taxes for good reason: housing is one of the biggest challenges ...

Asylum accommodation costs have soared in recent years, with billions of pounds being spent on housing people in inadequate conditions, which is both a waste of public funds and a failure to meet ...

Reliance on hotels has led to asylum accommodation and support costs soaring from £17,000 per person in 2019/20 to £41,000 in 2023/24 Muhammad said: “Asylum accommodation traps people in unhealthy, ...