Press releases

List of press Articles

  1. Govt should commit to supporting a new ‘double lock’ for public sector pay

  2. Hunt will not be able to fund NHS & lift pay cap for NHS workers through productivity alone

  3. ​​​​​​​Changes to design of Universal Credit mean more children will end up in poverty

    ew IPPR modelling for Child Poverty action group shows that consecutive cuts to UC have changed the policy beyond recognition
  4. 92% of local authorities fail to deliver enough affordable housing

    hancellor must act at Budget to invest in affordable housing as housing crisis reaches new levels with rent and home ownership increasingly divorced from earnings
  5. Millennials Prepare to Lead the Northern Powerhouse

  6. ​​​​​​​Nearly half the cost of lifting NHS pay cap would come back to government

    PPR’s new analysis shows that increasing NHS pay in line with inflation could generate additional £250m GDP by 2020, but the Chancellor must use his Autumn Budget to fund the pay rise
  7. Top 10% of households nearly 900 times wealthier than poorest 10%

    nly 4% of people think the distribution of wealth in the UK will become fairer in the next 10 years
  8. ​​​​​​​Help households struggling with high energy bills by offering a single tariff, energy companies advised

    ew IPPR research shows that consumers struggle to take control of their energy costs because they don’t understand their energy bills
  9. ​​​​​​​Government shouldn’t wait for Green Paper to give more powers over tax and land to the Mayor of London to tackle the capital’s housing crisis

    ​​​​​​New IPPR research shows affordable home ownership products only in reach of London’s top earners
  10. New programme to reduce exclusions in England and make The Difference for vulnerable students

    xcluded children cost the Government £2.1bn every year, while permanent exclusions have risen 40% in the last 3 years
  11. Proposed public sector pay rises not enough to restore link between economic growth and earnings

    ew analysis for the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice finds that rising import prices have driven a permanent wedge between economic growth and wages for the first time.
  12. Economic growth no longer leading to rising earnings, finds IPPR Commission on Economic Justice

    rchbishop of Canterbury leads call for radical economic reform