Press releases

List of press Articles

  1. Higher take-up and improved quality of free nursery places needed to boost life chances of poorer children

    The extension of free nursery places for two-year-olds will only help to deliver the Deputy Prime Minister's goal of greater social mobility if take-up and quality of provision are improved, according to a new report
  2. 1980s-style Enterprise Zones alone will not create much-needed jobs in the North

    ppr north director Ed Cox responds to the announcements made on growth and Enterprise Zones in the March 2011 Budget.
  3. Long on small ideas, short of big vision: ippr responds to budget

    esponding to George Osborne's budget, ippr has said the announcements fell far short of a new vision for growth.
  4. ippr publishes a 'Plan B' for the Budget

    he Chancellor should use next week's Budget to revise his plans for cutting the structural fiscal deficit, according to a 'Plan B' published by ippr. ippr's Plan B proposes a new 'deficit reduction averaging' approach.
  5. Public think Hutton Review should go further on public sector pay ratio

    ill Hutton's Review of Public Sector Pay should go further to come into line with public opinion, according to a new poll by ippr. The results of the poll, undertaken for ippr by YouGov, are released today ahead of the publication of Will…
  6. Health reforms put dementia care in jeopardy

    A new study
  7. England faces 750,000 housing gap by 2025

    England faces a shortfall of 750,000 homes by 2025 according to a new report from ippr
  8. Mandelson: The world is not flat

    ord Mandelson made a speech for ippr at the London Stock Exchange today.
  9. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - what's in store for housing in the next 15 years?

    ecent ippr research findings send a clear message to policymakers: however the economy turns out in the years ahead, a serious gap looms between housing supply and demand.
  10. Mandelson highlights £27 billion export gap

    ppr analysis shows that while UK exports to BRIC countries have increased rapidly in the last decade, they still lag behind Britain's share of world trade. If Britain increased its share of BRIC countries' imports from their current levels…
  11. Warning that first wave of LEPs are not drawing on all resources available to them

    ew research by ippr North and ACEVO finds that many Local Enterprise Partnerships in the North are missing out on the added value and benefits available to them by failing to engage effectively with local voluntary organisations and social…
  12. Leading Labour MP urges Prince William to modernise the monarchy

    ne of the stars of Labour's 2010 intake of MPs, the leading historian Tristram Hunt, argues in a major essay that Prince William needs to steer clear of his father's 'reactionary, anti-Enlightenment sensibility' if he wants to take the…