CPS LGPS report featured in The Times leader
Centre for Policy Studies report “LGPS (2018)” was featured in a leader in The Sunday Times newspaper, Sunday 10 January 2016. “A recent survey by the Centre for Policy Studies found that total costs for the scheme have risen by 76 per cent since 2009 and fund management costs by 51 per cent for the 2014-15 financial… View Article
Press release: Reform failing Local Government Pensions Scheme NOW
The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is rapidly running out of cash to meet pensions in payment, because of excessive pension promises relative to contributions. In a new report LGPS (2018) published by the Centre for Policy Studies on Sunday 10 January 2016, Michael Johnson warns that to avoid crisis the Government must take action now. The LGPS… View Article
CPS responds to Government announcement on new homes
In response to today’s Government announcement that it “is to step in and directly commission thousands of new affordable homes” largely on publicly-owned land and brownfield sites, CPS authors Keith Boyfield and Daniel Greenberg comment: “The real cause of the failure to build enough new homes is not the lack of land to build on;… View Article
Tony Lodge: Five priorities for first class railways in 2016
CPS research fellow Tony Lodge wrote for The Yorkshire Post on “five priorities for first class railways in 2016”, Saturday 2 January 2016. “IT has been 90 years since the Flying Scotsman was the star exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Today, as the annual fare increases take effect, railway enthusiasts are looking forward to… View Article
When coal power stops, how will Britain’s home fires keep burning? (The Times)
Tony Lodge, author of CPS report “The Great Green Hangover”, writes for The Times newspaper on coal and electricity shortages.
A Marginal Autumn Statement…
CPS Head of Economic Research Daniel Mahoney responds to the Autumn Statement
George Osborne should beware – the UK is not out of the woods yet (City A.M.)
CPS Head of Economic Research Daniel Mahoney wrote for City A.M.
Daniel Mahoney on Heathrow vs Gatwick for Share Radio
Daniel Mahoney appeared on Share Radio to discuss the economic case of airport expansion
The Times use Tony Lodge’s green hangover figures
Tony Lodge, author of “The Great Green Hangover”, was credited in Alistair Osborne’s business commentary column in The Times newspaper
Press release: Government must act now to avoid energy crisis next year
Tony Lodge reveals that Britain is on the verge of an energy crisis, with electricity demand set to outstrip dispatchable supply for the first time from early 2016
Daily Mail report on CPS energy pamphlet
Britain could face a major shortage of electricity in the New Year following decades of government mismanagement, a report warns today.
Daniel Mahoney: To narrow the life expectancy gap between rich and poor we must focus on absolute poverty
Daniel Mahoney writes for the International Business Times in response to comments made by former Prime Minister John Major
Andrew Tyrie MP on the EU in The Times
Andrew Tyrie MP wrote to the The Times on Prime Minister David Cameron’s EU renegotiation efforts.
Staggering inefficiency of Local Government scheme (Financial Times)
CPS Research Fellow Michael Johnson, author of ‘The Local Government Pension Scheme: opportunity knocks’, wrote to the Financial Times
WATCH: Charles Moore speech to CPS
Charles Moore gave a speech at the CPS book launch for his second volume “Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants”.
