A decade of broken promises has been laid bare today as a leading think tank reveals how the disparity in transport spending between the North and London has ballooned over the last ten years. In ...

The Minimum Income Guarantee Expert Group has published its final report today, setting out a roadmap to deliver a Minimum Income Guarantee in the longer term. Responding to it, Stephen Boyd, IPPR ...

“Even after the Budget, which raised taxes and increased borrowing, the government still had to make tough choices today. “There are much needed big increases in investment in infrastructure, ...

Reacting to today’s decision by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee to hold interest rates, Carsten Jung, associate director for economic policy at IPPR, said: “The Bank should have ...

As serious doubts arise over the Alexander Dennis bus manufacturing plant in Falkirk, all eyes should now be on the upcoming industrial strategy “The broad settlement for Scotland is welcome. But an ...

Analysis of today’s sickness absence figures by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that: Private sector companies lost an estimated 3.9 working days per worker to sickness absence ...

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Today’s emission figures show Scotland’s progress tackling climate change has stalled. Dave Hawkey, senior research fellow at IPPR Scotland, has responded to the statistics of Scotland’s climate ...

UK households are impatient for change. Trust in our political system is low and that’s reflected in scepticism across the board that government can make things better. The sense that the public both ...

IPPR has reacted to this morning’s ONS data release of CPI data for May 2025, which showed inflation at 3.4 per cent, effectively level compared with 3.5 per cent in April. Carsten Jung, associate ...

Researchers say this would help improve local transport, with more comfortable rides for passengers, cleaner air for communities, value for money for councils and potentially passengers, and a leap ...