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Examines whether the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system is targeting intended recipients, assessing who receives awards and potential gaps or misallocations in coverage and access for disabled claimants, ahead of forthcoming policy decisions.
Advocates a blueprint for a single justice system developed by a leading dispute-resolution expert, outlining reforms to streamline courts, dispute resolution pathways and access to justice across civil and criminal jurisdictions.
Among Latino registered voters, 86% say the economy is very important for their congressional vote in 2026; a majority also believe the Trump administration is doing too much on deportations.
Examines whether fiscal policy has responded to a regime of higher interest rates, focusing on the relationship between government borrowing costs (r) and economic growth (g) and implications for fiscal sustainability and debt dynamics.
NIESR examines the case for wealth taxation, arguing wealth has grown far faster than incomes in the UK while the tax system still favours income over wealth and exploring options to raise revenue from the wealthy.
COP17 discussions find developed countries’ delivered finance for nature ‘falls far short’ of UN targets, with Carbon Brief reporting insufficient funding to meet global biodiversity goals and the sums pledged at the conference.
Presents a public value framework to appraise GOV.UK One Login, arguing standard cost–benefit analysis poorly captures digital public infrastructure value and demonstrating how broader appraisal tools reveal different benefits and trade-offs.
Argues that no UK political party is honestly addressing the country’s fiscal constraints and the difficult choices needed on spending, borrowing and taxes ahead of the next general election.
Latino registered voters view the Democratic Party more favourably (53%) than the Republican Party (29%); Democratic favourability is up from 44% in the months before the 2024 election.
Performance Tracker 2026 chapter assesses the government's record on prisons and probation, updating indicators of performance, capacity and outcomes across the prison estate and community supervision as part of the Institute for Government's annual performance series.
Democratic congressional candidates hold a sizable advantage among Latino registered voters in 2026, and Latino supporters of Democratic candidates are more engaged with this midterm election than they were four years earlier.
Performance Tracker 2026 chapter evaluates policing and crime performance, updating metrics on police resources, crime levels and service outcomes within the Institute for Government's annual review of departmental and system performance.
Analyses how Chancellor John Healey’s upcoming Budget could affect devolved governments, exploring fiscal transfers, Barnett implications and spending pressures across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Men and women now use AI chatbots at similar overall rates, but men report more frequent use while women express greater scepticism about AI’s impact on their lives.
Reports that a failure to fit electronic monitoring tags resulted in around 5,000 offenders being left unmonitored in England and Wales, based on a recent Institute for Government analysis of the criminal justice system.
A Centre for Social Justice inquiry maps about 3,000 local areas where over half of working‑age adults receive benefits, and reports that almost 900,000 working‑age people are on benefits, highlighting Britain’s scale of worklessness.
Ahead of COP17, Carbon Brief tracks international progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets, analysing country commitments and the extent to which current policies and pledges close the gap to global goals.
Argues the Budget should begin delivering the Prime Minister’s ten‑year energy vision by creating a new policy lever to lower household bills and curb inflation, framing this as essential help for winter energy costs.
Polling by PF Global and IPPR Scotland finds 61% of Scots still back a transition to net zero; 69% want oil and gas decisions made case‑by‑case, 63% back more renewable investment, while 15% and 11% favour removing restrictions or ending drilling immediately.
Presents new findings that improving household economic security can itself drive productivity growth, positioning economic security as a policy lever for stronger, more resilient economic performance.
Reports that 58% of countries have submitted new UN-requested pledges to tackle nature loss ahead of COP17, summarising which nations have released fresh commitments and the scale of updated targets.
Fabian Society warns English universities face structural strain from interacting pressures on higher education funding and student loans, arguing a looming crisis could hit institutional sustainability and access unless policies change.
The IMF and World Bank’s review of the low-income country debt sustainability framework now incorporates greater weight for climate vulnerability and rewards adaptation investments, which E3G says will improve realism of debt outlooks for climate-exposed economies.
Analysis claims only one in five of the additional payroll jobs created in Britain since 2014 went to British nationals, a finding presented as a notable change in the nationality composition of job gains.
Analysis of US income and wealth since 2000 finds growth across lower-, middle- and upper-income households, but the largest gains accrued to the upper-income group, underscoring rising disparities in relative terms.
Explores how low rates of job‑to‑job moves among economically insecure workers are suppressing UK labour market dynamism and, in turn, holding back productivity growth.
A Centre for Social Justice analysis finds a worker on the National Living Wage must work more than 50 hours a week—around six days—to take home the equivalent of combined means‑tested benefits, highlighting weak pay incentives.
Presents the Institute for Government’s 2026 Performance Tracker chapter on the criminal justice system, assessing system performance against objectives and likely trends and challenges for reform and delivery.
Shows Donald Trump’s current approval at about 30% with 68% disapproving; notably, 31% of his 2024 voters now disapprove of his job performance, marking a substantial drop in approval during his second term.
The Institute for Government publishes the Public Services Performance Tracker 2026, a report assessing delivery across UK public services and tracking trends in performance over time.