Osborne pensions adviser wants Facebook Lisas
Michael Johnson, CPS research fellow, gave his thoughts on Lifetime ISAs to the FT Adviser, 17 Marhc 2017, ahea dof their launch in April. Lifetime ISAs, which Michael Johnson helped to develop, allow people under 40 to start saving up to £4,000 a year plus a 25 per cent government bonus, to go towards either a first… View Article
Brexit threat to carmakers is overplayed – CPS
In light of the annoucement Toyota will be investing £240m upgrading it’s Derby plant, City AM asks is the threat of Brexit to the automotive industry being overplayed, Friday 17 March 2017. Daniel Mahoney argues that the prospect of 10% tariffs on UK car exports post-Brexit is obviouly unnerving for car companies but recent developments… View Article
BT Openreach: Legal Separation isn’t enough
The legal seperation of BT and Openreach was announced last week but Daniel Mahoney argues this doesn’t go far enough in the opinion pages of City AM, Monday 13 March. “Legal separation will no doubt lead to more accountability. However, Openreach will remain part of the BT Group, leaving a fundamental conflict of interest unaddressed…. View Article
CPS response to Spring Budget
Daniel Mahoney, Head of Economic Research at the Centre for Policy Studies, responds to the Spring Budget: “It is welcome that, despite the UK’s borrowing forecasts improving, the Budget 2017 was not full of giveaways. Furthermore, although changes around national insurance and the tax-free dividend allowance will have an impact on UK competitiveness, the recommitment… View Article
No need for Spring Budget giveaways – CityAM
Daniel Mahoney has written for CityAM’s opinion page today, Monday 6 March 2017, warning agaist the temptation to offer spending commitments in the upcoming budget. Phillip Hammond’s first budget as Chancellor comes shortly after the announcement of better than expected economic growth figures but that shouldn’t mean a rapid increase in spending. “Significant fiscal giveaways,… View Article
Tony Lodges writes on rail competition for Yorkshire Post
Tony Lodge, author of a Centre for Policy Studies report on rail competition, has written a piece for the Yorkshire Post published 3 March 2017 on why increasing competition benefits passengers. Tony notes that passengers travelling from Doncaster and York benefit greatly from open access rail – where other train companies run services that compete with the… View Article
Public back Saatchi’s call for Royal Commission
Britons strongly back the creation of a non-political Royal Commission, proposed earlier this month by Lord Saatchi, to ensure the NHS is fit for purpose for the next generation. In a ComRes opinion poll published today, 61 per cent said they supported a Royal Commission, while only one in twenty (6%) say that the NHS… View Article
CPS research fellows’ evidence features in House of Lords report
The House of Lords Select Commitee on Economic Affairs today published its latest report entitled The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity Market. Two CPS research fellows, Tony Lodge and Rupert Darwell, gave evidence before the Committee hearings and their testimony is referenced in the report. The Centre for Policy Studies report on the energy market… View Article
The Times: CPS warns against
The Times has reported on a new CPS report, UK Manufacturing: How to Fuel the Engine, published on Wednesday 22 February 2017. The piece, which links the report to a leading manufactors conference taking place on the same day, includes the report’s warning against an aggressive industrial strategy from the government. “A leading Conservative think tank… View Article
Lord Saatchi writes lead op-ed for Mail on Sunday
Lord Saatchi, chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, wrote an op-ed for the Mail on Sunday on 19 February 2017 to accompany their coverage of his latest CPS paper, A NHS Royal Commission: From fighting fires to a lasting settlement. The paper calls for a Royal Commission to give the NHS a full body check-up,… View Article
FT reports on the lost decade for pensions
Award winning pensions correspondent Josephine Cumbo wrote an article in the Financial Times which covered our report from Michael Johnson on the ongoing crisis in the Local Government Pensions Scheme. “The LGPS is one of the largest defined benefit pension schemes in the world, with 5.4m former and current town hall workers relying on the… View Article
Choice puts railways on the right track
CPS research fellow Tony Lodge writes for The Times, Monday 13 February, following the publication of the Transport Committee’s report into rail franchising. Tony sets out the clear evidence from previous CPS publications that show competition on lines leads to increased passenger satisfaction. “At King’s Cross the main franchise, Virgin Trains East Coast, faces stiff… View Article
CPS maintains position in think tank rankings
The University of Pennsylvania has published its annual report on think tanks across the globe and the Centre for Policy Studies has maintained its position as the Number 1 UK Policy think tank for “Most Innovative Policy Ideas/Proposals The Centre for Policy Studies also ranks as: Top 100 think tank worldwide Top 50 think tank… View Article
Housing White Paper quotes Pink Planning reports
Government White Paper published following CPS report calling for action on housing The Centre for Policy Studies welcomes the publication today of the Government White Paper on the future of Britain’s housing market, Fixing Our Broken Housing Market. Last week the Centre for Policy Studies report Housing: Now is the Time to Seize the Opportunity highlighted the changing… View Article
Transport Committee praises Open Access Rail
Our Economic Bulletin in December 2016 noted that, at a time when strikes and delays on our rail networks dominate the headlines, open access routes – where multiple operators run trains on the same line, thereby increasing customer choice – satisfaction rates were at their highest. In the bulletin, Daniel Mahoney argued more routes should… View Article
Increased support for house building – CityAM
CityAM published an article today, Thursday 2 February 2017, on CPS’ recent housing report and the need for the government to build more homes to meet its target of 1 million new homes by 2020. The article picked up on the figures quoted in the report from the British Social Attitudes survey sugesting that nimbyism… View Article
