Social care ‘should be transformed into pension-style system’, says report
The social care system should be reformed so people pay for what they want while the state covers what they need, according to a new report. The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank said a system where the state guarantees a reasonable level of care and accommodation, with individuals encouraged to top up their provision beyond that… View Article
Pension-style solution is best fix for social care crisis, finds new study
With more than 1 in 20 care home residents having died from coronavirus, the need to fix the crisis in social care is more acute than ever New analysis from the Centre for Policy Studies compares the leading models for social care reform It finds that the system proposed by the Dilnot commission would be… View Article
CPS strongly welcomes new White Paper on planning
The Centre for Policy Studies today welcomed the publication of the Government’s White Paper, ‘Planning for the Future’. The think tank praised the focus on delivering sufficient new build homes and home ownership, which has been the core focus of its own work on housing. The CPS also welcomed the move towards giving communities greater… View Article
Demolish the old high street to rebuild the new
Even before the pandemic, the health of our high streets was in decline. Town centres were pockmarked by empty shops. Restaurant chains were finding it hard to stay afloat. Online shopping was attracting an ever greater share of consumer spending. But coronavirus has turned a trend into a fact. Years of behavioural change have been compressed… View Article
Global Britain urged to open doors for developing world
In a new report, James Sproule calls on Mr Johnson to allow a new generation of start-ups to operate within UK company law from abroad – beginning with Commonwealth countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia. The report, published by the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, says the move would help entrepreneurs in developing countries… View Article
The UK must be the champion of global entrepreneurship, says former Johnson adviser
The coronavirus pandemic is calling globalisation into question as businesses focus more on regionalised trade. A new report by James Sproule, former senior business adviser to Boris Johnson in Downing Street, argues that the key to making the UK a champion for global entrepreneurship – and making the vision of Global Britain a reality –… View Article
Boris must accept that the people do not want to bail out inner-city London
Nobody yet knows how different the Britain that emerges from the coronavirus crisis will end up being. Yet it is clear that most people who can work from home do not want to return to five days working in cramped city centre offices and long, stressful commutes. Jethro Elsden writes for the Sunday Telegraph.
Coronavirus: the situation is even worse than our early estimates
The impact of coronavirus will be far higher than expected In April, the Centre for Policy Studies published the first full estimate of the cost of coronavirus, predicting that borrowing this year could exceed £300 billion. The OBR’s central estimate is now £322 billion, which does not include the package of up to £30 billion announced… View Article
CPS responds to Chancellor’s statement
The Centre for Policy Studies responds to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s summer economic update, and his Plan for Jobs. On the temporary cut to Stamp Duty, Alex Morton, CPS Head of Policy, said: “We are delighted to see the cut in Stamp duty announced today – as one of the most hated and economically damaging taxes, this… View Article
Digital technologies can boost Britain’s small businesses
22% of small and medium-sized enterprises still don’t use digital platforms, such as Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, in their daily operations 61% of senior decision makers in British SMEs believe that technology and digital platforms have helped their business to expand Half (49%) agree that digital platforms have allowed their businesses to compete more effectively… View Article
CPS launches ‘Going for Growth’ programme
This week, the Centre for Policy Studies – the UK’s leading centre-right think tank – published a landmark report, written with the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, on how the economy can recover in the wake of the pandemic. ‘After the Virus’ is the first comprehensive study of how to repair the economic damage caused… View Article
Cut National Insurance and VAT to get the economy back on its feet, says former chancellor Sajid Javid
Former chancellor Sajid Javid heaped pressure on successor Rishi Sunak to cut taxes to help Britain recover from coronavirus today as he called for reductions in National Insurance and VAT. Mr Javid, who quit in February after a bruising clash with Boris Johnson and his aide Dominic Cummings, called for a ‘significant temporary’ reduction in NI to make it cheaper for employers… View Article
We need to focus on jobs and growth, not austerity
Major new report by Sajid Javid MP and Centre for Policy Studies sets out a vision for economic recovery after the pandemic. ‘After the Virus’ is the first detailed post-crisis blueprint for how to renew growth across every part of the UK. Former Chancellor warns that the crisis is likely to exacerbate the regional disparities… View Article
Will hydrogen fuel the UK’s net-zero coronavirus comeback?
As the UK begins to take its first cautious steps out of the lockdown that has precipitated the worst economic crisis in modern history, thoughts have inevitably begun to turn to the question of what comes next. For some, the devastation wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic gives the UK a chance to fundamentally reset its… View Article
Builders need £3bn Help to Build scheme to save Britain’s housing market, think tank warns
Housebuilders should be given up to £3bn in short-term grants to prevent a collapse in the supply of new homes, according to a new report. Centre for Policies Studies, a think tank, has called for the urgent stimulus to protect the sector from a lasting impact due to the coronavirus outbreak. It has proposed a… View Article
Urgent help needed to save house building
Leading centre-right think tank proposes new scheme to protect housebuilding sector from collapse. Its analysis of past recessions, and industry data, shows that the coronavirus crisis could lead to a fall in supply of at least 76,000 homes this year and likely next, with housebuilding not recovering until well into the 2020s This would make… View Article
