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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.
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.
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.
Over the last two decades the state spent £1.1 trillion more on working‑age benefits than on capital investment in transport, housing, digital infrastructure and technology, the Centre for Social Justice calculates in a comparative spending analysis.
Almost two million people classed as foreign nationals are reported to be receiving UK benefits or the state pension, according to a new inquiry; the release presents this figure as a landmark finding but provides few methodological details in the blurb.
Reports that prominent athletes including Lord Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes back a ‘Right to Sport’ campaign as the Prime Minister signals plans to overhaul physical education to help young people spend more time in sport.