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
Ireland will benefit from City Brexodus
Daniel Mahoney, CPS’ Head of Economic Research, argues that Ireland will benefit greatly from any City Brexodus as a result of the Leave vote in CityAM, Monday 30 January 2017. “Although Theresa May has provided a degree of clarity on the Brexit negotiations, remaining uncertainties mean that financial service firms will, inevitably, seek to implement some restructuring… View Article
“Kindness of Strangers” damages the economy – Telegraph
The CPS report “Kindness of Strangers” features in an article in the Telegraph, Thursday 23 January 2017, which outlines the dangers of the UK’s current financial policies. The article comes as quantitative easing – intended to be a short-term measure after the financial crisis in 2008 – approaches it’s tenth anniversary in February. The report references the… View Article
Daily Mail features story on “Dfid Diet”
The CPS’ Economic Bulletin “Time for a Dfid Diet?” was featured in the Daily Mail, Sunday 19 January 2017, saying the report puts pressure on the Government to re-consider it’s 0.7% target for spending on foreign aid. “Britain’s bloated aid budget should be put on a ‘diet’ in the wake of the Brexit vote, a study says today…. View Article
Daniel Mahoney writes on rail competition for CityAM
Daniel Mahoney writes for CityAM, Monday 9 January 2017, on the need for more choice and competition in the UK’s rail network. “Since the privatisation of the railways, successive governments have been resistant to open access competition on passenger routes. Open access operators (OAOs) are train companies that secure track access agreements for individual routes… View Article
CPS rail competition bulletin in The Sun
CPS economic bulletin “Get rail competition back on track: more journeys, lower fares and happier passengers” was featured in The Sun, Wednesday 21 December 2016. “MINISTERS were last night urged to rip-up the rule book and allow rival train operators to compete on the same bit of track. MPs backed calls from Margaret Thatcher’s favourite… View Article
Another victory for the CPS and for fairness and competition
The Centre for Policy Studies welcomes the publication today of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) report on the transparency of legal services. In February this year the Centre for Policy Studies report The Price of Law drew attention to the failure of corporate law firms to provide transparency to customers over the pricing of their services. The… View Article
Free Ports Raised in Industrial Strategy Debate
Free Ports were raised by Rishi Sunak MP, and praised by Greg Clark MP, in the Industrial Strategy Debate of 13 December 2016, as recorded in Hansard · Rishi Sunak (Richmond (Yorks)) (Con) May I urge my right hon. Friend to consider creating free ports across the nation? Such free trade zones around our great port cities can… View Article
CPS report ‘A Toxic Tangle’ referenced in City AM
Michael Johnson’s report ‘A Toxic Tangle‘ was referenced in an article on the public sector pensions crisis in City AM on 13 December 2016 “The gap between private and public sector pensions in the UK is the worst in the developed world, according to the OECD. Civil servants can expect to receive a 6 per… View Article
Tony Lodge writes to the Telegraph on Grayling’s rail reforms
Tony Lodge wrote to the Telegraph on Grayling’s rail reforms on 9 December 2016 Sir- Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, is right to strip Network Rail of its monopoly infrastructure role (report, December 6), but it is regrettable he has not called for more on-track train competition. The 1992 white paper, which led to railway privatisation,… View Article
Head of economic research discusses in-work poverty on BBC north east radio
CPS head of economic research Daniel Mahoney discussed in-work poverty on BBC Newcastle and BBC Tees breakfast shows, Wednesday 7 December 2016. You can listen to the interviews here: BBC Newcastle: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ft9rk BBC Tees: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04gjfgm#play
Michael Johnson’s letter to the Telegraph on property taxes
Michael Johnson’s to the Telegraph on property taxes on 5 December 2016 Paul Johnson, the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (comment, November 22), has suggested that we could ease the housing crisis by increasing council tax to reflect property valuations more closely, and thereby fund more construction. This is impractical for one reason:… View Article
Tony Lodge writes on the stakes of the UK energy policy debate
Energy analyst Tony Lodge writes for the Telegraph that the stakes are high in the UK energy policy debate. “It is high noon for Britain’s fledgling energy policy. Years of failed interventions, arbitrary green targets and damaging subsidies will come to a head in this week’s capacity auction, when we will either see investors commit to building… View Article
