IPPR at Party Conferences 2023

Monday 25 September, 11.30 - 12.30 | Avon Room, Bournemouth International Centre

What’s the future for hyperlocal governance and empowering communities?

Hosted by IPPR North and the Local Trust

• Baroness Pinnock, Lords Spokesperson for Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government
• Councillor Tim Pickstone, Chief Executive of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors
• Jonathan Owen, Chief Executive, National Association of Local Councils
• George Atzev, Committee Member, Arches Chatham Neighbourhood Forum

Chair: Zoë Billingham, Director, IPPR North

Monday 25 September, 13.00 - 14.30 | Westbourne Suite, Bournemouth International Centre

How does health drive prosperity?

Hosted by the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

• Daisy Cooper MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Spokesperson for Health & Social Care
• Rt Hon Norman Lamb, former Minister of State for Care and Support
• Chris Thomas, Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Monday 25 September, 18.15 - 19.15 | Westbourne Suite, Bournemouth International Centre

A fair retirement: Addressing pensioner poverty

Hosted by IPPR and Independent Age

• Wendy Chamberlain MP, Spokesperson for Work & Pensions
• Cathy Deplessis, Director, Southwark Pensioners Centre
• Martin Coppack, Director, Fair by Design
• Joanna Elson CBE, CEO, Independent Age

Chair: Melanie Wilkes, Associate Director for Work and Welfare State, IPPR

Monday 25 September, 18.15 - 19.15 | Meyrick Suite, Bournemouth International Centre

What’s the policy agenda needed to break the ‘blue-wall’?

Hosted by IPPR

• Dr Tom Lubbock, Founding Director, J.L. Partners
• Miranda Green, Deputy Opinion Editor, Financial Times
• Mark Pack, President of the Liberal Democrats and Editor of the Liberal Democrat Newswire

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Sunday 1 October, 17.00 - 18.30 | Central 6, Manchester Central

Lift off: Accelerating levelling up in the 2020s

Hosted by IPPR North, Bright Blue and Power to Change

• Dehenna Davison MP
• Jo Gideon MP
• Chris Smyth, Whitehall Editor, The Times
• Cllr Jamie Jamieson, Chairman, Local Government Association
• Thomas Pope, Deputy Chief Economist, Institute for Government
• Ailbhe McNabola, Director of Policy and Communications, Power to Change
• Zoë Billingham, Director, IPPR North

Chair: Alexandra Jezeph, Non-Executive Director, Bright Blue

Monday 2 October, 13.00 - 14.30 | Lancaster Suite, Midland Hotel

How does health drive prosperity?

Hosted by IPPR and Impact on Urban Health

• Lord Bethell, former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care
• Baroness Camilla Cavedish
• Zoë Grünewald, Policy and Politics Correspondent, New Statesman
• Anna Garrod, Director of Policy and Influencing, Impact on Urban Health
• Chris Thomas, Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Monday 2 October, 15:30-17:00 | Lancaster Suite, Midland Hotel

Supercharging the clean energy transition

Hosted by IPPR and Siemens Energy

• Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP, Chair of the Independent Government Review on Net Zero
• Alexander Stafford MP, member of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
• Catherine Raw, Managing Director, SSE Thermal
• Steve Scrimshaw, Vice President, Siemens Energy

Chair: Dr George Dibb, Head of the Centre for Economic Justice, IPPR

Tuesday 3 October

Tuesday 3 October, 13.00 - 14.30 | Exchange 10, Manchester Central

Boosting accessibility and supply: Delivering a childcare guarantee

Hosted by IPPR

• Rt Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom MP, Early Years Adviser and Chair of the Early Years Healthy Development Review
• Erin Mansell, Head of Communications and Public Affairs, Women's Budget Group
• Muniya Barua, Deputy CEO, BusinessLDN

Tuesday 3 October, 18.00 - 19.30 | Chester Suite, Manchester Central

Where does conservativism go next?

Hosted by IPPR

• Lee Rowley MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety
• Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP
• Bim Afolami MP, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden
• James Johnson, Co-Founder, J.L. Partners

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Tuesday 3 October, 18.00 - 19.30 | Exchange 10, Manchester Central

Does the Conservative Party really care about social justice?

Hosted by IPPR and the Centre for Social Justice

• Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP
• Szu Ping-Chan, Economic Editor, The Telegraph
• Tim Montgomerie
• Harry Quilter-Pinner, Director of Research and Engagement, IPPR

Sunday 8 October, 13.00 - 14.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area Three, Museum of Liverpool

Renewing the progressive project: Lessons from abroad

Hosted by IPPR and PPI

• Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
• Will Marshall, President and Founder of the Progressive Policy Institute
• Claire Ainsley, Director of the Center-Left Renewal project at the Progressive Policy Institute and former Director of Policy to Keir Starmer

• Harry Quilter-Pinner, Director of Research and Engagement, IPPR

Sunday 8 October, 15.00 - 16.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area Three, Museum of Liverpool

Democratic reform: What comes next?

Hosted by IPPR

• Florence Eshalomi MP, Shadow Minister for Democracy
• Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire
• Jessie Joe Jacobs, Director, The Democracy Network
• Parth Patel, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR

Chair: Harry Quilter-Pinner, Director of Research and Engagement, IPPR

Sunday 8 October, 17.00 - 18.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area Three, Museum of Liverpool

IPPR Big Ideas Debate

Hosted by IPPR

• Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero
• Leonie Cooper AM, Labour & Co-operative London Assembly Member, Merton & Wandsworth, Chair of the London Assembly Environment Committee
• Luke Murphy, Associate Director for Energy, Climate, Housing and Infrastructure, IPPR
• Angela Francis, Director of Policy Solutions, WWF UK
• Adrienne Buller, Director of Research, Commonwealth
• Chaitanya Kumar, Head of Environment, New Economics Foundation
• Carsten Jung, Senior Economist, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Sunday 8 October, 19.30 - 21.30

IPPR Reception

Hosted by IPPR and Community Windpower

• Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
• Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development
• Ray Ball, Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director, Community Windpower

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Monday 9 October

Monday 9 October 10.00 – 11.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

Great government in the 2020s: How will Labour fix our public services?

Hosted by IPPR, KPMG and Reed in Partnership

• Steve Reed MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Baroness Chapman, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
• Sonia Sodha, Chief Leader Writer, the Observer
• Nicholas Fox, Partner, Head of Government (Justice), KPMG in the UK
• James Reed CBE, Chairman, Reed in Partnership and Reed
• Harry Quilter-Pinner, Director of Research and Engagement, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Monday 9 October 10.00 – 11.30 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

Clearing the air: Accelerating the transition to decarbonised transport

Hosted by IPPR and the Healthy Air Coalition

• Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for Climate Change
• Seb Dance, Deputy Mayor of London for Transport and Deputy Chair of Transport for London
• HirraKhan Adeogun, Co-director: campaigns & impact, Possible
• Sarah Woolnough, Chair, Healthy Air Coalition

Chair: Maya Singer Hobbs, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR

Monday 9 October 13.00 – 14.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

Power to places: How can devolution under Labour empower healthy prosperous communities?

Hosted by IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity and the Health Foundation

• Cllr Emily Darlington, Cabinet Member for Adults, Housing and Healthy Communities at Milton Keynes Council and PPC for Milton Keynes South
• Mayor Dan Norris, Mayor of the West of England
• Efua Poku-Amanfo, Research Fellow, IPPR
• Jo Bibby, Director of Health, The Health Foundation

Chair: Chris Thomas, Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR

Monday 9 October 13.00 – 14.30 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

What does it take to be the first green treasury?

Hosted by IPPR, WWF and Aviva

• Tanmanjeet Dhesi MP, Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
• Tanya Steele CBE, CEO, WWF UK
• Nick Molho, Head of Climate Policy, Aviva
• Luke Murphy, Associate Director for Energy, Climate, Housing and Infrastructure, IPPR

Chair: Pilita Clark, Associate Editor and Business Columnist, Financial Times

Monday 9 October 15.00 – 16.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

Alleviating poverty: Labour’s missing mission?

Hosted by IPPR and the Centre for Social Justice

• Liz Kendall MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the APPG on Inclusive Growth
• Polly Toynbee, Columnist, the Guardian
• Jess Prestidge, Deputy Policy Director, Centre for Social Justice

Chair: Harry Quilter-Pinner, Director of Research and Engagement, IPPR

Monday 9 October 15.00 – 16.30 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

The cost of inaction: How tackling climate risk fuels economic prosperity

Hosted by IPPR and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

• Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive, New Economics Foundation; Labour parliamentary candidate for Camberwell and Peckham
• Mark Cliffe, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
• Sandy Trust, Head of Organisational Risk, M&G

Chair: Laurie Laybourn, Visiting Fellow, Chatham House; Associate Fellow, IPPR

Monday 9 October 13.00 – 14.30 | Meeting Rooms 1&2, Premier Inn Albert Dock

The state of the economy and public finances: How much room is there for transformative policies for the next government?

Hosted by IPPR

• Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Jumana Saleheen, Chief Economist & Head of Investment Strategy Group, Europe, Vanguard Asset Management
• Professor Adrian Pabst, Deputy Director, National Institute for Social and Economic Research
• Dr Anna Valero, Distinguished Policy Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
• Carsten Jung, Senior Economist, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Monday 9 October 15.30 – 17.00

Private roundtable: It costs more to be poor: What is the poverty premium and how can we fix it?

Hosted by IPPR and Fair by Design

• Michael Marra MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance
• Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, Mayor of Newham
• Martin Coppack, Director, Fair by Design
• Sheldon Mills, Executive Director, Consumers and Competition, Financial Conduct Authority

Chair: Melanie Wilkes, Associate Director for Work and Welfare State, IPPR

Monday 9 October 15.00 – 16.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

Healthy people, prosperous lives: What is Labour's plan for health and prosperity?

Hosted by IPPR and Impact on Urban Health

• Preet Kaur Gill MP, Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health
• Rachel Sylvester, Chair, Times Health Commission
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation
• Peter Babudu, Executive Director, Impact on Urban Health
• Chris Thomas, Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Monday 9 October 17.30 – 19.00 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

Making communities climate resilient: How would a Labour government prepare the country for the next big shock?

Hosted by IPPR and Lloyd's

• Baroness Young of Old Scone, Member of the Lord’s Environment and Climate Change Committee; Trustee, Labour Climate and Environment Forum
• Polly Billington, Strategic Adviser, uk100.org; Labour parliamentary candidate for South Thanet
• Rebekah Clement, Corporate Affairs Director, Lloyd’s

Chair: Luke Murphy, Associate Director for the Energy, Climate, Housing and Infrastructure Team, IPPR

Monday 9 October 19.30 – 21.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

IPPR North Reception

Hosted by IPPR North

• Louise Haigh MP, Shadow Minister for Transport
• Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire

Host: Zoë Billingham, Director, IPPR North

Tuesday 10 October

Tuesday 10 October 09.00 – 10.30

Private roundtable: The role of mental health services during a cost of living crisis

Hosted by the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Kooth

• Liz Twist MP, Co-Chair of the APPG on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention
• Luciana Berger, CEO of iNHouse Communications, former Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Vice President of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Ewan Irvine, Trustee, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Kate Newhouse, COO and Executive Director, Kooth

Chair: Chris Thomas, Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR

Tuesday 10 October 10.00 – 11.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

Rebooting levelling up for the next general election

Hosted by IPPR North, Bright Blue and Power to Change

• Paula Barker MP, Shadow Minister for Devolution and the English Regions
• Justin Madders MP, Shadow Minister for Business, Employment Rights and Levelling Up
• Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region
• Ryan Shorthouse, Executive Chair, Bright Blue
• Nick Plumb, Power to Change

Chair: Zoë Billingham, Director, IPPR North

Tuesday 10 October 10.00 – 11.30 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

Supercharging the clean energy transition

Hosted by IPPR and Siemens Energy

• Jeff Smith MP, Shadow Minister for Clean Power and Consumers
• Emma Gatten, Environment Editor, the Telegraph
• Catherine Raw, Managing Director, SSE Thermal
• Steve Scrimshaw, Vice President, Siemens Energy

Chair: Luke Murphy, Associate Director for Energy, Climate, Housing and Infrastructure, IPPR

Tuesday 10 October 12.00 – 13.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

In Conversation: Labour’s plan for health and care in the 21^st Century

Hosted by IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

• Wes Streeting MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
  
• Chris Thomas, Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR
• Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Chair: Harry Quilter-Pinner, Director of Research and Engagement, IPPR

Tuesday 10 October 12.00 – 13.30 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

How can Labour's economic plans provide a boost to British trade?

Hosted by IPPR and Santander

• Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
  
• Gareth Thomas MP, Shadow Minister for Trade
• Marley Morris, Associate Director for Migration, Trade and Communities, IPPR
• John Carroll, Head of International and Transactional Banking, Santander

Chair: Lizzy Burden, UK Correspondent, Bloomberg

Tuesday 10 October 15.00 – 16.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

How can our immigration system better support prosperity and workers' rights?

Hosted by IPPR and Vialto

• Stephen Kinnock MP, Shadow Minister for Immigration
• Stephen Bush, Associate Editor and Columnist, Financial Times
• Andrea Als, Director, Vialto Partners
• Andrew Giles, Australian Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

Chair: Marley Morris, Associate Director for Migration, Trade and Communities, IPPR

Tuesday 10 October 15.00 – 16.30 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

How can Labour unlock growth in the industries of the future?

Hosted by IPPR and City of London

• Darren Jones MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Councillor Bev Craig, Leader of Manchester City Council and GMCA’s Portfolio Lead for Economy, Business & Inclusive Growth
• Chris Hayward, Policy Chairman of the City of London Corporation
• Dr George Dibb, Head of the Centre for Economic Justice, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Tuesday 10 October 17.00 – 18.30 | IPPR Fringe Zone, Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool

Opportunity for all: Reforming childcare for good

Hosted by IPPR and Usdaw

• Bridget Phillipson MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Education
• Paddy Lillis, General Secretary, Usdaw
• Shabana Ismail, Usdaw member with lived experience
• Melanie Wilkes,Interim Associate Director for Work and Welfare State, IPPR

Chair: Rachel Statham, Associate Director for Work and Welfare State

Tuesday 10 October 16.45 – 18.00 | IPPR Green Hub, Fourth Floor Events Suite, Tate Liverpool

Faster, fairer, greener: A green industrial strategy

Hosted by IPPR and SSE

• Jonathan Reynolds MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy
• Kate Bell, Assistant General Secretary, TUC
• Rachel McEwen, Chief Sustainability Officer, SSE
• George Dibb, Head of the Centre for Economic Justice, IPPR

Chair: Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR

Tuesday 10 October 18.30 – 20.30

Green Economy Drinks

Hosted by IPPR, Labour Climate and Environment Forum, Green Alliance and Octopus Energy

• Darren Jones MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Carys Roberts, Executive Director, IPPR
• Clem Cowton, Director of External Affairs, Octopus Energy
• Paul McNamee, Director, Labour Climate and Environment Forum
• Shaun Spiers, Executive Director of the Green Alliance